291 – The Ritz (with Christina Tucker) (70s Spectacular – 1976)

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

We’re on to 1976 (go sign up for our Patreon for 1975 and our Exception episode on Tommy!) and Christina Tucker rejoins us to talk about the 70s Spectacular’s wildest movie, The Ritz. From the play by Terrence McNally, the film is a mob farce set in a bathhouse with Jack Weston as a straight man hiding out from Jerry Stiller’s mob boss and living legend Rita Moreno as the sex establishment’s kooky cabaret headliner. Despite the pedigree of Oscar winner Moreno and then-newly-minted theatre icon McNally, The Ritz turned out to be a little too Looney Tunes for the stiff-upper-lip (and super straight) Academy.

This episode, we tackle the film’s harmless lunacy and McNally’s legacy. We also talk about Moreno’s Tony speech from the Broadway production, Rocky‘s victory over an incredible Best Picture lineup, and William Friedkin’s dour approach to producing the Oscar ceremony.

Topics also include the Continental Baths, Challengers, and Post Malone’s 2024.

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0:00.0	The right house.
0:03.0	I didn't get nominated.
0:15.0	Mill and Hack.
0:17.0	And we want to talk to Mill and Hack and print. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Pooh!
0:35.0	Poooh!
0:37.0	I think I'm crazy.
0:40.0	I think I'm crazy, but my brother-in-law is planning to kill you.
0:44.0	Are you pick the gay bear to hide out in?
0:46.0	There's three happy chappies with snappy, syruppies, you'll find us beneath eyes some breath.
0:52.0	It's nice. Now you just lay back there and Gugi is going to charge you how nice.
0:56.0	We're brave and we'll say so we're bright as a face so who says so we're
1:01.0	strange as it may seem no one is going to attack you.
1:04.0	Someone already has.
1:07.0	Beginner's luck.
1:10.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that is content to lie in wait under a roll top desk.
1:15.8	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations,
1:21.3	but for some reason or another it all went wrong.
1:23.9	The Oscar hopes died and we are here to perform the autopsy and this May all month we're diving
1:28.5	into the Oscar Buzz of the 1970s.
1:31.2	Kew disco beat and Partridge family. Partridge family, yes, opening
1:39.9	animations. That would have been fun to do like a little animations character animations of all of us.
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