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Homophilia

The Taste of Things with Alan Poul

Homophilia

WOW Podcast Network

Comedy

4.4926 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The producer and director of My So Called Life, Six Feet Under and Tales of the City joins us to talk about the devastation of All of Us Strangers, the importance of Juliette Binoche, the drama of the Barbra memoir audiobook, growing up with Maude and Mary Tyler Moore, how WandaVision brought the MCU into his little gay boy heart, the gay bar scene in Japan, the role they wanted Laura Linney for on Tales, the polarizing episodes of Six Feet Under, what it’s like to show up halfway through My So Called Life, and whether Tino ever did show up.

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May the best Superstar win, available now. Yeah. you're We're just going to sit in silence for a moment for it. I appreciate that. It's

1:08.9

traditional. We like to start with a prayer and a long meditation, but you know that you've listened to some episodes. No, Dave, we are, we're sitting in silence. I think it's reverence is why we were sitting in silence because we have a very important guest here. He produced and directed

1:27.9

six feet under tales of a city, my so-called life, the newsroomroom many many more most recently Tokyo Vice on Max

1:36.2

Alan Pool hello Alan thank you I feel like I shouldn't say anything. It's all downhill after that introduction.

1:43.2

Stop! But truly, Alan, you have been involved in like several things that have been

1:50.0

pivotal to both of us. Thank you very much.

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Yeah, big time.

1:53.6

Well, thank you very much.

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Oh, yeah.

1:56.0

We're going to get into all of them, but you've obviously

1:58.7

made so much great television, but is there anything

2:01.8

you have seen lately that really inspired you?

2:05.3

Well you know it's Oscar time and it's voting season and as a member of the Academy

2:11.9

I have to admit that the past couple of months have been mostly trying to catch up on all the movies of the year and haven't been quite as wide-reaching in my television viewing. Also, I happen to have just launched a television show which

2:25.6

sort of occupied every waking hour until the time we were ready to give birth

2:30.5

to it but do movies count yeah absolutely tell us about your movie favorites I would

2:36.8

say about it if you will well I'm not going to reveal my ballot actually go final

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