293 – Hair (with Natalie Walker) (70s Spectacular – 1979)
This Had Oscar Buzz
Joe and Chris
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
The 70s Spectacular comes to a close this week with actress Natalie Walker joining us to discuss 1979 and Milos Forman’s adaptation of Hair. The brainchild of Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Redo, Hair took Broadway by storm in the late 1960s for its narrative and political audacity, presenting the free-love and anti-war hippie movement of the time. Forman wanted to bring the musical to the screen after seeing the Off-Broadway production, but wouldn’t achieve that goal until after his One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Oscar victory. This delay turned the once ripped-from-the-headlines musical into old news when it eventually became a film.
This episode, we discuss the 2009 Broadway revival and the changes made to the film to give the story a more linear structure. We also discuss the best hair of 1970s cinema, Dustin Hoffman being a monster on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer, and Actors Fund Benefit concerts.
Topics also include the follow-up musical Dude, step and repeat falls, and “gliddy glop gloopy”.
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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 talked to Mill and Hack and friends. I'm from Canada water. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm from Canada water. Dick Poopop. Let the sunshine in. The sunshine in. |
| 0:45.0 | The sunshine in. |
| 0:48.0 | And Let the sunshine. |
| 0:55.0 | sunshine in the sunshine. |
| 0:57.0 | Let the sunshine. |
| 1:00.0 | Let the Sun shine in! |
| 1:05.0 | Here! The film! |
| 1:09.0 | Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, The Only Podcast, that Through Circular Logic can make it anywhere because we made it here. |
| 1:18.0 | We didn't get into the lyrics of that classic song, but sometimes it's a little odd you know if you really |
| 1:23.2 | break it down granularly anyway we're not Gary Mulligan here every week on |
| 1:26.6 | this had Oscar Buzz we talk about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty |
| 1:29.6 | Academy Award aspirations but for some reason or another it all went wrong. |
| 1:34.0 | The Oscar hopes died and we're here to perform the autopsy, and in the month of May we're celebrating |
| 1:38.6 | the Oscar era that was the 1970s. |
| 1:41.6 | I am your host, Chris File, and I'm here as always with my 16 year old |
| 1:45.2 | tattooed woman who got busted for her beauty Joe Reed. |
| 1:48.8 | A hearty gliby-glop gloopy nib nubby, newby to you, Chris File. |
| 1:55.0 | Oh, good morning, StarSha, I think I said that before to you and you who was not as well-versed in this musical. |
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