October 24, 2025 • 63 mins
Jeff and Amber take pause to pay tribute to Diane Keaton with an impromptu discussion about their top 10 favorite performances by the legendary actress.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I always was attracted to it since I can remember.
You know, I was very attracted to being on stage
or singing or being paid attention to. And I always
shined under those conditions, or I certainly felt good until
it was over, and then I felt guilty.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So we are smack dab in the middle of our
salute the scary movies. It's Halloween, it's October, but that
does not mean we are not going to stop what
we're doing so that we can pay tribute to arguably
one of the greatest actresses of all time. Is that
(01:05):
fair to say?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh, definitely.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So just the other day we saw that Diane Keaton
passed away. Amber, I am not even going to pretend
like I've seen the bulk of her work. Honestly, I
know we're talking seventy four acting credits to her resume.
I've seen four of them, and you and I were talking, Yeah,
(01:32):
I've got some work to do that, which is why
I asked you. I recognize how amazing she she was.
And I asked you, I said, you know you. You
were like, hey, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta do
a tribute to to Diane Keaton. And I said, well,
what I'm in the I can't I can't recommend anything,
(01:52):
but you can, like, how about you help me send
me a list? Like give me what are Amber Lewis's
top ten Diane keaton film performances? And I appreciate how
fat like you were, quick like you. Clearly I gotta
I gotta believe she's one of your favorite actresses. Yes, absolutely,
let's uh, let's hit let's take a pause on scary
(02:16):
movie season and let's talk about Diane Keaton and her
what we feel are our top ten favorite performances.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The winner is Diane Keaton. Well, it's simply true a
pick up naturally.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I'm very honored to have been nominated with actresses like
Jane Fonda and Shirley McClain and Anne Bankroft and Marsha Mason.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This is something anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Annie Hall was a wonderful experience for me, and I
just would like to say thanks to Woody and thank you,
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hello everybody, I'm Jeff Johnson, I'm Amber Lewis, and this
is a Film by podcast. We're dropping a special episode
this Friday because we wanted to pay tribute to the
legendary Diane Keaton and Amber. When we say legendary, we're
talking about an actress that was nominated sixty three times
(03:34):
for various awards, and one thirty seven of those sixty three,
which is incredible. Yeah, just focusing on the Big four,
which would be obviously we're talking about the Academy Awards.
Diane Keaton nominated four times for Best Actress in a
Leading Role. She wins nineteen seventy eight, she wins for
(03:59):
Any Hall, but she's also nominated nineteen eighty two for Red's,
nineteen ninety seven for Marvin's Room, and two thousand and
four for Something's Got to Give. I'm gonna tell you
right now, I have not seen any of those performances,
which I'm going to correct, and I'm gonna I'm thinking,
(04:22):
I know, I know one or more of these might
be on your list, which we will get to in
just a quick second. But I did want you to
know I did look in uh to Diane Keating. I
wanted I wanted this to still be. I know, we're
just gonna have a candid conversation. This is more or
less I'm almost asking you what are your what tell
Let's tell me why these ten performances are on your
(04:44):
list and why these are the ten that you know
we should watch. But before we do that, I know
we like to always, you know, when we're talking about
a director, we always do you know a couple facts
and a nice quote. Yes, yeah, So I've got a
couple of things I wanted to mentioned about Diane Keaton
and listen, I know you probably know these things, but
(05:05):
I thought, yeah, maybe you can shed a little light
or maybe you can add something that that maybe makes
sense of it. So I'll tell you right now. Let's
start off with one of my favorite things that I
found out just today. Diane Keaton amazing actress, amazing director.
She directed your music videos.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You didn't know this. Okay, you've watched them, you've seen them,
you've sung to these, You've sang along with these songs.
Amber like little Amber Lewis was singing along with these
songs back in the day. I've watched these videos a
one hundred times because I happen to be a big
fan of Belinda Carlisle.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I like her music. But my brother was like the
one that had the crush on her.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh well, so did I you know?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It was Oh my gosh. Her video came on. It
was stop the Presses.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah. Nineteen eighty seven, the music video for Heaven is
a Place on Earth, directed by Diane Keaton.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
A year later, nineteen eighty eight, she's back with Belinda
directing her music video for I Get Weak. So next
time you watch those videos, know that the talented director
behind the behind the camera was, in fact, Oscar winner
Diane Keane. I think, I think that's wild, Like I
would never if someone, anyone could have told me that,
(06:30):
and I would have been like, Nah, that's not that's
not true. No chance. Next thing I want to talk about,
we have to talk about this one. So Marlene Dietrich
started something back in the day that Catherine Hepburn continued
and amber, you know what I'm talking about, Like you're not,
and you're it's I'm talking about fashion. And how so
(06:51):
Diane Keaton revives this this fashion trend where women are
wearing you know, suits, they're wearing what typically would be
considered male clothing, you know, ties and bowler hats and
what have you. It kind of went away and then
Diane Keaton brings it back. In nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, and like.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Marlene and Dietrich and Katherine Hepburn, it wasn't like a
little bit. It was in the seventies where she was
literally wearing men's clothing, but it quickly evolved to you know,
fashion houses tailoring that type of outfit to her. So
it was women's clothing in that style tailored to her.
(07:41):
So it looked glamorous all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And this this starts with it's seventy seven, so we're
talking Annie Hall. Yes, right, okay, so that's people.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
She shows up and Annie Hall and everybody lost their
goddamn mindes.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Okay, Okay, I haven't seen any Hall.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You know that we I know I'm gonna coaxed to you.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well that's that's what That's what this conversation is all about.
I I have ten picks from Amber Lewis in front
of me, and I'm looking at someone going obviously because
I have seen someone, Like I said, I've seen four
of her movies. You know, I mean it's not zero, Yeah,
it's not zero.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I've seen It's not only The Godfather.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's exactly thank you. But you know, the whole point
of this conversation is to your point, like you know,
you're the voice of reason, so maybe you're gonna reason
with me, and maybe maybe I go, Okay, well, I'm
gonna check this one out now that now that you
told me about this number three pick, I gotta I
gotta see it, right or you know, and I just
I just said number three. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see
(08:43):
one more thing before we move on. Did you know
that she has a street named after her in front
of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
No, I did not.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
She went there, you know, she alumni though. Yeah, that's nice,
you know, and she lived. She lived in California, so
I'm sure she's like, eh, I'm gonna go down Diane
Keaton Street. You know right, I would if there was
a Jeff Johnson Street in Cincinnati, I'd be driving that
all the time. Go out, I'd go out of my way,
like here, you know, it's not forty five minute drive. No,
(09:17):
it is because we're taking we're taking the long way.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We have to take my route.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We're going We're going, We're going my route. Can I
share a quote with you?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Now, I gotta tell you there's a lot of stuff
out there that really revolved around you know, her love life, and.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Oh my god, that's all anybody ever wanted to ask
her was about the guys that she did.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, but but I found and like a lot of
it was tied to like her dating life, right, And
so I was happy when I found this one. This
is Diane Keaton's advice to people. Don't give up on yourself.
So you make a mistake here and there, you do
too much or you do too little, just have fun,
(10:02):
smile and keep putting on lipstick. Amber. I gotta tell you,
I'm gonna do at least two of those three. I'll
leave it to you to figure out which ones.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But that's that's a great love that.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, that's a great outlook. You know what I'm I know,
I got I got one more thing for you. I
got one more little tidbit. I'm gonna save it to
the end though, because it's gonna you know, because I
know you might, you might get a little, you might
get a little emotional with some of these picks. I
know that. But I got I gotta I gotta feel good.
(10:38):
And I just learned this like two minutes before we
started recording and talking awesome, and I was like, oh,
I can't wait to drop that on there. But I'm
gonna wait, I'm gonna hold that to the end, okay,
because that's it. Just yeah, it just it just put
a big smile on my face. So okay, So without
further ado, then let's start off, and Amber, I kind
of get the vibe. This is these are your favorites.
(10:59):
It's not like we're not ranking them. We're not saying
this one's better than that one. This is just your
top ten.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
So take what you know, right, Yeah, these are these
are my favorites, these ones that I'll throw on anytime.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay, Okay, So let's start with your number ten, because
I'm a I'm a little I'm a little confused because
you know, you like to break the rules and I
see two choices here, and I'm I'm gonna I'm assuming
you're gonna explain why there's two, right, Okay.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Okay, So at number ten, Annie Hall from nineteen seventy
seven and Manhattan Murder Mystery from nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Hi hi, hi, oh hi, hi.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Well bye.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You play very well?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Oh yeah, so do you?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Oh god, what a what a dumb thing to say, right,
I mean, you say you playing well and then right
away I have to say, you play well, oh oh god, Annie, Well,
oh well, Ladi dati da.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Okay, So I know Annie Hall. She's playing Annie Hall, yes,
And she's playing Carol Lipton in Manhattan Murder Mystery. So
she's not playing the same person. So you're.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
She's not playing a character with the same name, but
they're pretty much the same person.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Now. I haven't seen any Hall, but I do know he.
I know basically this role was written for her. It
is her, yes, And you're saying Carol Lipton is also her, yeah,
playing herself in these movies.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Well yeah, I mean a lot. Yeah, And it's their
dynamic together.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
And you know, we all know that Woody Allen and
my extension his films are problematic, but we're not here
to talk about that. You know, it's not what this
episode is about. But after eight films together, you can't
address Diane Keaton's legacy without mentioning a witty Allen film,
(13:12):
especially not Annie Hall. And these two, to me are
bookends because you have Annie Hall and then fifteen years
later you've got Carol Lipton and Annie Hall. Is all
about the relationship between Annie and Alvi Singer and how
(13:33):
they meet, they fall in love, and eventually break up. Okay,
and it's she's the one that got away, you know.
And you may go on to be happy, you know,
with someone else down the line, but this will always
be the one that got away. And Manhattan Murder Mystery
is what would have happened if they had stayed together
(13:53):
and gotten married. And now here they are after being
married for fifteen twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Years and someone gets more and someone gets murdered.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Okay, so they okay, I just want to clarify, like
they're like one didn't kill the other, okay, because you're like,
what happens if they stay together? It's a it's a murder.
So let me ask because I you know again, and
I know she did, like what eight films with with
with Woody Allen any Hall. The first one is Manhattan
Murder Mystery.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
That any Hall was not the first one. It was
like the third, okay, but this is like the one
that the infamous one, the one that she's known before
she won the Academy Award for it.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I got you so And you're saying that these kind
of bookend each other. Yes, okay, that's fair, just because I'm.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Perfectly willing to never watch another Woody Allen movie again,
but I can't give up on these two.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Beautiful Can I give you a Can I give you
a little extra credit here, A little fun fact? I
learned something. I can't do this, you know, I just
happened to stumble up on this. Any Hall, you said,
she's basically kind of playing herself in Annie Hall? Right, Yes,
I come to find out Diane Keaton. You know that's
not her real name, right right? Okay, well, okay, obviously
(15:10):
you know, but for our listener, but that's okay. I'll
be honest. You know, we don't. We're not. We're not
putting on a show here. Well we are, but you
get it, we kind of are.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Diane Keaton is actually Diane Hall. And Diane Hall always
went by the nickname Annie, so I mean he could
have called it Diane Keaton. I mean might as well.
All Right, your number nine pick is I've never seen
it again. I know, I got a lot of work
(15:43):
to do here, but I recognize the film title. It's
it's it's like one of those film titles. You hear
it and it's like cinema history.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What are we talking about Looking for Mister Goodbar, also
nineteen seventy seven. I can't stay here and be myself.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
She's like a lot of girls alone. Who's at the
bars alone?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It's kind of sad. Cheer up.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
I mean they don't leave alone.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
She's never been in that bar before.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Huh right, right, right?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So where did you want to go? It makes me
feel good.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
You didn't know anybody there.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
They're that way, you know.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
I mean, you're drinking your nack.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
None of that off small too.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I'll keep in touch. You've got one thing me, Oh
that's what you've got, and to hold on to me.
It's got to be me, not only me.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Get this into one of your two heads, the only
one that can think.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I am my own girl.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
I have belong to me.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Now get out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah. Two movies nineteen seventy seven. She plays Teresa Dunn
in Looking for Mister Goodbar. What is this movie about?
Because like the title just sounds like someone's hung your
for a candy bar.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
No, no, I know that can't be what educate education.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
So this movie is a little bit People think why
she got the oscar for Annie Hall Because if you
watch these two movies, like they could not be two
different characters. Okay, So it's based on a true story
that was then there was a book written, Looking for
(17:16):
Mister Goodbar, which everybody read back in the day.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Ok And then like two.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Years after the book came out, they made this movie.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
And it's about this woman who is a school teacher
and you know, she's in like her mid twenties, you know,
in the seventies, and she's you know, very conservative, and
she's this great elementary school teacher.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I think she teaches at a school for the deaf.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
And then she goes out at night and goes to
bars and picks up men and is adventurous with drugs
and sex and what.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And Jane Keaton is in this role.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
And she's living like this second life.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I'm putting a note here next to Looking for Mister Goodbar.
It's all all caps. It says watch this.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
It's very controversial and you won't see where the ending
is coming.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I think I cannot believe she plays.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Don't read anything else about it. Just watch it.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Oh no, I just okay, I'm in you got you got,
you got my attention. It is with me on.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Issues about how it ends, But I mean it's real.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It happened, but real quick. Uh you said you have
issues with the healthy end and don't don't give it away.
But is it? Is it the ending? Did they stick
to the book ending or did they change it.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
From I mean no, it's based on real life, like it's.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Oh, this is actually oh okay, it's what happened.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's what was in the book.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And yeah, okay, all right, all right, I you got
you got me, uh, I got me intrigued. I'm gonna
find looking for mister goodbar. I'm see where its streaming
or see if I gotta I.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Got a bar half up like three dollars for it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But that's why that sounds worth it, all right. Number eight,
we're making out. We're gonna we're gonna count down to
number one here. But what's what's number eight?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
So number eight is a movie called Hampstead from twenty
seventeen that I found because it co stars Brendan Gleeson
and my son adores.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Him, love Brendan Gleeson, and.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
So he wanted to watch it because he saw that
Brendan Gleeson was in it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And I was like, oh, Diane Keaton.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I'm man, Okay, she's playing Emily Walters.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Well, well, come on, these towers are a health hazard,
and I would expect somebody who actually lives around there.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
People wanted to say, attached to their radioactive walkie talkies,
it's their business.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Do I like what they're doing? No? Do I like them?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Probably not. Do I respect their right to do as
their little shallow hearts desired?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I most certainly do so.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
No, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
If I were a beton man wage or now that
you don't really have a dog in this ones either.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
You don't know me.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
If you know me, and where I live, I know.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I am the one I call the police. What, Yes,
the other night you were being attacked and I saw
you from my windows, So I telephone the police and
I live. I live over there at West Teeth Road.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
I saw it all. I just I don't know. Are
you all right?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I'm spiffy.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You've You've got me on the hook with Brendan Gleason.
M hmm, keep keep me there?
Speaker 10 (20:31):
How?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
What What's what's Hampstead about?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
So it's a romantic comedy. It's based on an actual
guy who lived in like this shack that he built
on Hampstead Heath in London, and you know, he's just
kind of squatting and the developers want to come in
(20:57):
and put in like a bunch of a part and
buildings and stuff, and he is arguing with the city
and saying, like, I've been here for seventeen years.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I deserve to stay here. This is my home.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
She lives nearby and they meet cute and start up
a relationship, and she's recently widowed.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And the thing that I love about her.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
In this movie and this character is it's so reminiscent
of a character that Katherine Hepburn would have played if
they had made this movie like forty years ago. Interesting,
Katherine Hepburn would have been in this movie, you know,
from it's like the way she's styled, to the fact
that she doesn't look to Brendan Gleeson's character to solve
(21:46):
her problems, like she deals with her own stuff. And
she also doesn't just like throw away her life and
her values to follow this kind of like bohemian life
that he.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Has built for himself.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
You know, like, yeah, you know, they come together, but
it's on her terms and I like that.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
It's very sweet. It's like just a delightful little movie.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Okay, I don't know. I don't know about that one.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
But it's a little rhym com for you.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
But this isn't my list. It's okay. Before we move
on to number seven though, so we drop back to
number nine. Yes, just one more thing about Looking for
Mister Goodbar. Yes, before we move on. You said it
was probably you said that was the performance that probably
(22:36):
got people looking at her for Andy Hall.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
My question to you that got her the Oscar where
they looked at year and we're like, holy crap, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, that's But what I'm saying is you've seen these two,
they're on your list, you're recommending them. Is she better
in Annie Hall or is she better in Looking for
Mister Goodbar? What's the better what's the better performance? Because
if this one's getting her the Oscar attention for a
different role, I'm wondering, like putting you on the spot here,
(23:06):
Like Teresa Dunn, there.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Is nothing like Annie Halt. There's just nothing like her
in this movie. Like I'm just begging you to watch it.
Just ignore would he Allen every time he comes on
the screen, and just look at Diane Keaton.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That's a tall order but I'll try.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I know, I know it won't be hard because she's
like the whole movie.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I'm gonna go buy a Mister Goodbar and I'm gonna
I'm gonna watch this, and that's that's my movie snack.
Oh my god, I can't. I'm kind of you got
be ready for it. With watch this, I was just like, well,
wait a minute, hold on Oscar talk. Could she have
been nominated for both of them? In your opinion?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I know that was a time
when we weren't doing that, like.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
But.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Because Looking for Mister Goodbar, like, it's such an anomaly
in her filmography. I can't think of of another like
Annie Hall. It's so much her personality that you see
pieces of it and other things that she's done. But
Teresa Done, I feel like, is its own thing.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I know we've been zigging, but I got a zag.
I'm gonna I'm gonna shut down our Looking for Mister
Goodbar episode and I'm gonna jump back into your Okay,
your top ten. So number seven, So we started off,
she's in Annie Hall basically playing herself, and I got
(24:32):
to ask about your number seven.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Pick number seven is the book Club from twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Eighteen where she's playing Diane.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Right, and you kind of feel like all of these
legendary actresses in this movie are kind of being themselves.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Oh I'm really.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
I'm so sorry as well.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
No, I really didn't mean to disturb you.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I know, I know.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
Oh it is so humili.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
I'm really scared offying. Oh yeah, well I won't be
once these kick into my bloodstream.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
The safest way to travel?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Do you know when you think that, why because you've
never really met anybody who's been in a plane crash
and you want to know why?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Why because they're all dead.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I think those pills that are affecting you already.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
My god, what takes you to Arizona?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oh my daughters lived there. That should be fun. Not exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
They're kind of forcing me to go. Well, my husband
he died last year. So playing crush?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So is she playing herself in book Club?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Then? I mean, yeah, probably a little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, Okay, she's playing easy. You know I'm Diane and
I'm playing Diane.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
What's up? Tell me about book Club? Because I in
my my my minor research, I saw there's a sequel.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
To it, yes, which I haven't seen Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
We'll just let's just talk about book club.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
The premise is ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
It's these women who have had a book club for
like forty years, okay, and they and Jane Fonda is
like like kind of the wild one of the group.
And she shows up and it's her turn to pick
the book and she picks fifty Shades of Gray. What
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And so they read it and they're all just kind
of like some of them are inspired to be spicy
with their heads and some of them are, you know,
inspired to go on a dating app because they've been
single for a long time. But Diane Keaton is her
character's a little bit different than the others. When she's
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in a group, she's usually the outlier, and it's the
same in this one. She is widowed, okay, and she
has two daughters who are convinced that she cannot handle
her life on her own.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
They're like trying to you know.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
The one daughter is played by Elisia Silverstone, and she's
trying to get her to like move it, you come
live with me and.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
My family, you know, and she's like, I don't want
to do that. I like my house. I'm perfectly fine,
you know.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
And it's you know, I have a widowed mother and
I have felt the way Alicia Silverstone's character feels. I'm
also a single mom and I have my son who's
like very protective, and I'm like, it's okay, I got this.
So I can see on different levels, I really identify
with this character.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I can see why you're connected to this one. Then
that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
And it's fun to see these like icons from the seventies,
all these wonderful actresses, like they're older, but they're funny
and sexy, and you know they carry this movie.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
It's a hoot.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Your number six pick immediately got my attention, really, and
it's not because I've seen it and it's it's because
of the year it came out. Oh, yes, give us
missed it. I guess, I guess so.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
From nineteen eighty six Crimes of the Heart. Who like
this candy.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Man?
Speaker 11 (28:52):
Do you see this was my one and only birthday
present to May And look what she's gone and down?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Will you please say that she's taking a one.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
Little bit at it, each piece of candy in this box.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
And then she just put it right back in. Oh
that is just so much like her.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Nny so I can't help it. I can't help it.
It just gets me mad, It gets me upset. Well,
Megan's always done wild. You know, she started smoking and
drinking when she was fourteen years old. She never mayr
old bitch.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
She ever made.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
It's the great it somehow she always seemed to give
what she wanted. Well, you remember how she's the one
us sing the nantass, and you know you remember how
she always had twelve golden Jinga belts sewed under her petticoats.
Well you and I were only allowed three apiece.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Just tell me why? Why?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
What?
Speaker 7 (29:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (29:39):
I can't help it, babe, It just gets me so mad.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Look at this Crimes of the Heart. We we did
our limited series for nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I know, we closed the door.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
We revived it on Patreon to do another twenty episodes,
so that we now have eighty six episodes about nineteen
eighty six. Eighty six for thirty six is perfect. I
have never heard of Crimes of the Heart and you're
telling me.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
You've never even heard of it, never even heard of it, and.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
You're telling me that it stars Diane Keaton Sissy Spacek.
And there's one more right, than there, Jessica Lang. Okay,
so Diane Keaton is playing uh, Lenny McGrath. Yes, what's
this about? What's what's Crimes of the Heart? Tell me?
Because now it's nineteen eighty six, and now I feel
like I'm obligated. I don't I don't know what you're
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about to say, but I know it's I have to
see it because otherwise I lose my I lose a
little bit of street cred. Right eighty six is the
greatest here for you to watch this, and I will
be I promise I will. I'm circling it.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
It is based on the nineteen eighty one Pulitzer Prize
winning play about three eccentric Southern sisters okay, and their
relationships with each other and their relationship and ships with men.
They have kind of scattered and they come back together
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in their family home because the youngest.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Sister, Babe played by Sissy Spacek, has shot her husband.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
She didn't kill him, Okay, she.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Tried but she missed so, but she did injure him
very badly. He's in the hospital.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
So then Lennie has is the oldest that's Diane Keaton's character, Okay,
and she's the one that as a firstborn daughter, I
identify with.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
You know, she is trapped by this responsibility.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
She's taking care of taking care of their grandfather who
raised them, and taking care of her sisters, and she
doesn't really take care of herself because she did it
isn't take care of other people. And like you know
we said before with book Club, like she's in this
big group and she's the outlier.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
You know. Jessica Lang plays Meg, who's the one in
the middle. She's the flashy one.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
She was gonna go to Hollywood and become a star,
you know, babes the baby, So she gets all the
attention and Lenny's just kind of forgotten.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
And it's interesting to see what Diane Keaton does with that.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
All Right, I'm gonna I want to tell you you
got two movies that are definitely on my list at
this point that I definitely have to see. And then
Crimes of the Heart. It's nineteen six. I have to
see it.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Okay. I feel terrible, like we we did we close
the close the series out, and I feel like maybe
this is when we should have we should have got well.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
And I really love also when a movie is based
on a play, and you get that flavor of it
being a play.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, when you're watching it, I.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Think death Trap comes to mind when you say something
like that. Yeah, that's I love it.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
I mean, given the subject matter, I was thinking more
steel my noise, but yeah, death Trap as well.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Okay, your number five pick.
Speaker 10 (33:05):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I have not seen it, and I know they made
it's it's a franchise, got a great one of my
favorite actors in it. So let's let's let's talk about it.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yes, Father of the Bride from nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, Nina Banks, she's a I get, I get. I
mean I've never seen it, but I get it. Like
it's Dank Heaton and Steve Martin. Yes, their daughters getting married,
and Martin.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Shorts there to be he's the wedding planner.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
He's the wedding planner. Because that's okay with.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Like a fabulous you're a trash accent?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Okay, all right, So Follow the Bride? Does it look
like my cup of tea? But maybe I'm ready to
ready to poor poor some Like, tell me, tell me
about Father Bride? Why do I need to see this one?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
So Father the Bride is interesting because it's a remake
of a Spencer Tracy movie.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yes that I know, and it just takes it and
then you know, dials it up to eleven.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Steve Martin is hilarious. He is not prepared for his
little girl to get married. The whole thing is costing
a fortune and it's driving him crazy. He has like
one of my favorite meltdowns ever in a grocery store,
Like I quote that meltdown all the time.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Excuse me, sir, what are you doing? I'll tell you
what I'm doing.
Speaker 10 (34:27):
I want to buy eight hot dogs and eight hot
dog buns to go with them, but no one sells
eight hot dog buns. They only sell twelve hot dog buns,
so I end up paying for four buns I don't need.
So I am removing the superfluous buns.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
I'm sorry, sir, but you're gonna have to pay for
all twelve buns. They're not marked individually.
Speaker 10 (34:47):
Yeah, you want to know why, because some big shot
over at the Wiener company got together with some big
shot over at the Bun company and decided to rip
off the American public because they think the American public
is a bunch of trusting nitwits need rather than make
us spink. Well, they're not ripping off this nit wet
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anymore because I'm not paying for one more thing I
don't need. George Banks is saying no.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
And what's interesting is Diane Keaton as his wife, Nina.
She's this gifted comedian. I mean, she is hilarious and
she is the straight man, and she's there to keep
him calm and remind him how much he loves his daughter,
and you know, rain him in when he is out
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of control.
Speaker 10 (35:45):
That was the low point, flipping out over four hot
dog bunds. I couldn't figure out why I've gotten so
nuts by the wedding had me so unglued to.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Banks, your wife is here, an't you gonna let me out?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
She wants to talk to you first.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
She wants to talk to me first.
Speaker 10 (36:14):
Hello, George, Why do you look happy to see me
in here?
Speaker 7 (36:19):
Now?
Speaker 10 (36:19):
Now?
Speaker 7 (36:19):
Happy?
Speaker 10 (36:21):
No?
Speaker 7 (36:21):
No, no, I'm not happy, George.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
And I do have a story that I saw after
she passed away that I just loved. Steve Martin and
Martin Short do concerts. They travel around and do these
concerts that are really really funny, and they were doing
a show like I think the day after and they
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told the story and then they put her a picture
up on the screen and.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Like raised a toast to her.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
It was really sweet, but they said that it was
either doing the making of this movie or the sequel.
Martin short asked her, who do you think is sexier
me or Steve? And she said, I mean, you're both idiots.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
That's the one way to answer. Yeah, and she's I
like that she's insulting both of them, but also she's
not hurting either one of their feelings, right, like.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
She loves them both.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
And you can just tell what the dynamic was on
those sets. And the fact that they told that story
I think was adorable.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Your number four pick I absolutely have not seen.
Speaker 10 (37:32):
Me like that.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Well when that he's seen this movie, everybody.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Has I did. Okay, yeah, the First Wife's Club, you know.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I jumped again.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
But yes, that's it. Yeah, we've been separated from months now.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Let's not over dramatized.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Okay, Aaron, She's allowed to be angry.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Annie, Let's use this.
Speaker 7 (37:53):
He's found someone new. You're free closure.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
That is not what is Annie. No, no, no, Annie,
you are not helping us out here now. I am
sorry in this way.
Speaker 11 (38:06):
I am very sorry I ever met you, and I
am fine that I allow myself to love you for
all those years. I'm sorry I did nothing but be
there for you every minute of every day and by you.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
In your every Now, hey, we we did. We did
another limited series nineteen ninety six. Yep, this was not
on the list.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Well see I was not here then to put women
on the movie you know scene.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You do know that you were here?
Speaker 7 (38:42):
You did?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah? Yeah, yes, you were you. You did one of
our nineteen ninety six episodes, as I recall, you did
the Craft with Yeah, you did the Craft with our
good our good friend, our slasher girl, Amanda Janic. Yes, yeah,
you're around. Do you remember I was so excited about
the Craft. I that's fair.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
First Wife's Club fall, by the way side.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Give me a little bit of credit here there.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
This is I know.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
I know.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
The premise is you've got one one woman gets dumped
for like the husband goes after younger girl and then
her friends. Her two friends try to no no no
no no no no. Okay. So I'm just bab I'm
going off the trailer that I saw.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
It's for four girlfriends, Okay, Stockard Channing, she was in it. Well,
I'll get to that.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn and they went
to college together and they were best friends. Okay, So
then they grow up, they get married, they kind of
lose touch, and Stockard Channing's husband leaves her okay, and
she falls into a depression.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
She writes a note to each of the women and
then she harms herself. So they come together for her
funeral and they reunite.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
And once they reunite and re ignite their friendship, they
realize they've all been going through the same thing. Diane
Keaton's husband is leaving her but using her to like
keep the business going. Bette Midler's husband left her for
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Okay, and you're like, I can't understand that, but no.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
I'm not trying to be a jerk, Jeffrey.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
And then Goldie Hahn is like famous actress with lots
of really funny uh plastic surgery, and her husband left
her for Elizabeth Banks, which I definitely know you that,
but still he's better.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Horrible.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
I can I redeem myself real quick? What's that you said?
Speaker 5 (40:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
You said the one guy left Bette Midler or you
left Betty, he left Bette Midler for who Sarah? Okay,
if you give me, if you're if you're offering up
Bette Midler at the end of Ruthless People from nineteen
eighty six, Yes, I'm definitely taking Bette Midler over Sarah.
Jessica Parker. Proud for you, I promise you, all right.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
So they come together in a plot for revenge, okay,
get revenge against our bastard cheating husbands.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
So they're like, is this like a murder plot or
like no, They're.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
They're gonna hit him where it hurts. They hit him
in the wallet, they hit him in the reputation.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
They oh, okay, they.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Really put him through it, and you know they it's
they're all very heightened emotions, but Goldie Hawn and Bette
Midler are the really outrageous characters. And Diane Keaton is
trying to keep everything together and remain calm and you know,
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be sensible, and she's the glue that kind of holds
them together.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I happen to notice here because we've been we've been
offering up her character names for these performances. Diane Keaton
again playing character named Annie. Yes, Annie mcduggan and Verdice?
Is that am I saying that? Right? Okay?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Well interesting your third pick. Should we take a quick
break and then and then do your top three?
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:26):
All right, Well we're gonna take a quick break and
then we'll be right back to see what three performances
are on Amber's list. And I gotta tell you two
out of three are awesome. Maybe maybe three is all.
I don't know. I haven't seen that one. You haven't
seen it, So we'll be right back. All right, we
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are back. Amber has been giving us her top ten
favorite film roles by the legendary Diane Keaton, who we
recently lost. Amber. I know your number three pick is
a sequel to a huge, huge movie, but I'm telling
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you I haven't seen it, and I'm kind of surprised,
like she's doing I didn't know she. I didn't know
she did voice work.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
It's a very small part.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
This is a small part. It's your number three, Yes,
tell I have a reasons. Okay, what do we talk about.
Speaker 5 (43:23):
From twenty sixteen? It's Jenny in Finding Dory. She plays
Dory's mother.
Speaker 9 (43:31):
I'm playing Dory's mother, and my name is Jenny. And
my feeling about Jenny is that Jenny is a really
good hearted person, but not too bright. She's not a
really smart person, but she's very determined and she's, you know,
on mission. She's on a big mission, and her mission
is to find her daughter because she's just.
Speaker 7 (43:47):
In a panic.
Speaker 9 (43:49):
I'm not really a voiceover actor person. But what I
liked about Andrew was he made it fast. Things went fast,
and and you know, sometimes you didn't have to stick
directly to the script, which really feels good, and you
can kind of just kind of play into Ankne unless
you try a lot of things.
Speaker 7 (44:08):
But he moves it.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
He keeps the action going. I really like that because
I like a lot of energy. I think Pixar gets
who you are in your mouth and how you express yourself,
and so it's it's I don't know how they do that.
I mean, it's just it's kind of like a miracle.
I think they kind of I don't know it. It's amazing.
I mean they just really kind of you see that
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it's Diane talking in a weird way.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
So Finding Dory picks up, you know, we're finding Nemo
left off and Dorry starts having these flashbacks, and she
starts remembering her childhood, and she's remembering her parents, and
she's remembering like where she came from, and these flashbacks
and here's where I'm gonna get like checked out as
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the mother of a neurodivergent child. To here Diane Keaton
and Eugene Levy, who plays Dory's dad, like they're coming
up with these strategies to try to help her not
get lost because every time she leaves the house, she
can't remember how to get back. And there's one scene
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where Dory's in bed and they're whispering, and Jenny is
so worried about her, like, you know, what are we
gonna do? We have to take care of her. How's
she gonna be able to do things on her own?
And to have like lived that and have such an
understanding script. And then the way Diane Keaton just like
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infuses the voice work with this warmth and humanity, like
it's just this beautiful little bit part that she did
in this kid's movie.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
I I find it amazing that she can have such
a small role but can make such an impact on you.
And I'm sure plenty of other people and we're and
it's a Disney Pixar movie. Yep, you know, we we
let's just take the toddlers to you know, they see
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colors and shapes on the screen, they'll be they'll be fine.
But I I really, I really dig the fact that
they can they can have sustenance for for adults. Can
you see these films? That's really cool, that's that's fair.
Speaker 5 (46:23):
And everybody was talking about it, you know, after the
movie came out, they were like, oh, we thought it
was just going to be like a fun sequel, and
then we got hit in the you know, oh my
has a d D too.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
You know, kind of feels your number two pick. I'm
going to say, and I know you can disagree with me, yes,
but I'm going to say it's probably okay with exception
to Annie Hall.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
Yes, probably agree with me after you watch it.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Probably her most memorable film role. And I'll tell you
right now, speaking giving you the male perspective, this is
the character every man I'm planning on earth is if
you've seen a Diane Keaton movie, you've seen this performance.
Oh yeah, at least I honest, Oh.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Yeah, Well, and I have thoughts you're gonna be surprised.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
Okay, so I.
Speaker 5 (47:17):
Specified Godfather one and two in nineteen seventy two and
nineteen seventy four, she plays k.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Yeah, and three she said, let's be Hones three nineteen ninety.
She's in the third one. But Kay Adams, the wife
of Michael Corleone.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
I didn't want your son, Michael.
Speaker 11 (47:40):
I wouldn't bring another one of your sons into this world.
Speaker 8 (47:45):
It wasn't abortion, Michael, it was a son, a son,
and I had to kill because this must all end.
Speaker 7 (47:55):
I know now that it's over.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael,
no way you could ever forgive me, not with this.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Sicilian thing that's been going on for two thousands.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Okay, so here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (48:16):
Yeah, I hate her from the moment she her eyes
what until her last scene kidding.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
I have no patience for her bullshit.
Speaker 5 (48:29):
And that's why I don't like the third one is
because I hate that she and Michael kind of reconcile.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
I'm like, screw that, absolutely not. She is the absolute worst.
Speaker 5 (48:41):
And you know how I struggle to celebrate separate like
the character from the actor. Because we talked about this
with Jeff Daniels from terms of endearment, like it was
decades before I could watch that man and anything and
not want to just throw something at the screen.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
I can't wait to talk in terms of endearment with
you at some point, because Flap is awesome. Sorry, hey,
it shows you.
Speaker 5 (49:12):
But it shows great actress she is that not only
can I still watch and enjoy The Godfather and enjoy
hating her, but I love her other movies, like I
can completely divorce her from any other film that she's made,
like she's just not the same person, Like she completely
inhabits this character and then completely sheds her so you
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can enjoy her other movies.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
And Kay Adams is such a sad character when you think,
hold on, wait, ye hold on, give me, let me,
let me because you're let me land this plane. I'm
not saying that she's not annoying. I'm saying she's a
sad character. And here's why.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
Here's why.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
She is infatuated with young Michael Corleone.
Speaker 7 (49:58):
And then he.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Basically ghosts her. He goes to Italy for however long,
finds another woman, marries her, she dies, He comes back
to New York, looks her up after several years, and
She's immediately like, where's she been? Like what she been doing?
We don't know because she's right back in his arms.
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I'm like, come on, like, come on, kay, you couldn't
have you could have found another guy, You couldn't have
found happiness. She's she put everything on hold for this
guy and it didn't really, it really didn't work out
for her. That's sad.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (50:36):
She knew what she was getting into. She knew from
the minute he brought her to that wedding. The first
story he told her was about how they threatened to
kill a guy. Like, yeah, don't turn around at the
end of that movie and be horrified by what you
got yourself into.
Speaker 3 (50:52):
Uh huh. And I don't even want to talk about
the second movie like that.
Speaker 7 (50:55):
Ever.
Speaker 5 (50:56):
I have never wanted a bitch to get slapped more
than I wanted the slapper in that movie.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I was so happy Amber Justice once you can ask
about my business. So you're you're gonna you're closing the door.
Let's close the door on kadamsche did Okay, that is shocking.
I can't believe your number two pick on a Diane
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Keaton top ten and you love this woman and you
just you just couldn't stand the character. That's that's awesome,
all right. Uh your number one pick is such a fun,
lighthearted movie. It's fantastic. It absolutely is. I watched I
used to watch this all. This was this one of
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those movies that was on showtime like four times a
day in the you know, in the late eighties, early nineties.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
What yep, I love this one.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
What do you got?
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Uh from nineteen eighty seven baby boom?
Speaker 4 (51:55):
Well, do you know like approximity how much this is
gonna cost me?
Speaker 6 (51:58):
No, Brian, Yeah, well just guess five.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Six thousand dollars maybe more.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Oh well, that's just fine.
Speaker 11 (52:05):
That's that I've had. I can't make it here, Okay.
Speaker 7 (52:09):
I mean I am not I am not to bad,
you know, all right.
Speaker 4 (52:12):
I went to Harvard, I graduated the top of my class.
Speaker 7 (52:15):
For what to spend my life.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
Fixing up this eleminated shack where you can just forget
it because I'm gonna get.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Out of here.
Speaker 11 (52:23):
You see, I need to work, I need people, I
need social life, I need sex.
Speaker 10 (52:31):
Please, I'm a married man.
Speaker 4 (52:35):
Die here. I mean, how much bettyful this person's supposed
to kill with?
Speaker 7 (52:39):
I'm making their lifetime.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
I mean, I am a career woman.
Speaker 11 (52:42):
I am used to having full less and dinner meanings.
Speaker 10 (52:46):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 9 (52:49):
No, I have been yupped and note to death by
you guys.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
I have had it with whiskers and plaid.
Speaker 8 (52:56):
Look at me.
Speaker 7 (52:57):
I am going nuts.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
I used to be. I'm not prepared for wealth run dry.
Speaker 4 (53:04):
I just want to turn on the font and have water.
Speaker 3 (53:07):
I don't want to know where it's coming from.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Six baby boom. She's j C. Wyatt Amber. I don't
even I'm not even going to pretend to wonder why this.
Not only is this on your list, but it's your
number one pick, because I know all about this character
and what she represents. But I want you to tell
us about j. C. Wyatt and why she's your number one.
Speaker 5 (53:36):
So as the ultimate power hungry yuppie. I mean, this
is such an eighties movie. Executive turned stay at home
single mom turned balanced mother slash career woman. Like you said,
I watched this movie one hundred times and it was
(53:58):
the one that I saw the most frequently mentioned on
social media after she died.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
This was the one that everybody was, you know, just
talking and.
Speaker 5 (54:07):
Reminiscing about she is utterly believable in the beginning as
a woman who is like fighting her way to the
top of the corporate ladder and you know, dealing with
like misogyny and double standards and glass ceilings, and you
one hundred percent believe that this is who she is
and this is all that she wants in life. And
(54:29):
then her switch once she becomes the guardian of this
baby is so natural and so such a slow burn,
and it's awkward, and you know she's just trying her
best and has like no clue and you believe every
(54:52):
step of it. And then she retires from the corporate life.
She buys this farm in Vermont and she's like, Okay,
I'm going to the person that relaxes and picks apples,
and I'm raising this little girl.
Speaker 3 (55:06):
And then the way that she shows you her frustration and.
Speaker 5 (55:12):
Her loneliness, and she's not unhappy with her choice to
raise this baby, she's not unhappy with where she's living.
She's just lonely and it's not enough, it's not fulfilling enough.
And so she kind of accidentally starts this gourmet baby
food company and she finds this way of balancing, you know,
(55:39):
having a corporate life and being a mom, and you know,
for those of us, I mean, I worked because I
had to, but I also worked because that kept me saying,
like I could not have been a stay at home mom.
My mom did it with three kids, and I don't
know how she did it, because I had lost my mind.
And to see someone who shows that you can do
(55:59):
both and still be a good mom and still be
you know, good at your job, it's just so satisfying.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
It is a fantastic comedy and kind of blows my
mind that in nineteen eighty seven you were going to
the movies to see an amazing actress like Diane Keaton
in Baby Boom, and that same year you could go
to the theater and see Ted Danson and Tom Selleck
(56:31):
and Steve Gutenberg in Three Men and a Little Baby,
Because well it's not the same movie, it's the same
premise where a little baby comes along and just totally
changes people's you know, like your your lives are upside
down and don't I don't know if Jason and d
are listening to this, but like, we need, we need
(56:51):
the Baby Boom versus three minute little Baby, right I read?
I don't know, I don't know which which which one
I'd pick. I don't know which one they pick, but
you know that'd be a fun one to You know, guys,
if you're listening, we need a matchup. Give us, give
us the matchup. Fantastic Amber. I love I loved your
(57:14):
number one pick. I love the movie. I watched a
bunch of times I was a little and it was fantastic.
Now you have given me some great films to check out.
I'm excited to check out some of these, several of these. Actually,
if I'm telling the truth, I told you I had
one more little little tidbit about Donne Keaton. I wanted
(57:36):
to end on a on.
Speaker 3 (57:37):
I forgot we were having something.
Speaker 2 (57:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I learned this today from the
Hollywood Insider. Apparently, Diane Keaton used to joke that her
great loves were her children, al Pacino Architecture, and Reggie Amber.
She left Reggie five million dollars in her will. Now,
(58:05):
from the look of your face, I think you know
who Reggie is. Here's the amazing thing, listeners, Reggie is
her golden retriever. If you didn't know, because it's no secret,
you know, she was very involved with animals. She worked
closely with the the Helen Woodward Animal since her in
southern California for like twenty years, and to make sure
(58:29):
Reggie was taken care of, she left five million dollars
to him and and you know, some animal charities to
make sure he had the best of care and you
know was taking was you know, just I love that.
That's such an awesome thing.
Speaker 3 (58:45):
That's the best thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (58:47):
Yeah, that's and it's so her like exactly, that's that's
a Diane Keaton thing to do. He's got to be
the richest golden retriever in the history. I don't know,
but Reggie's gonna enjoy five million dollars worth of treats. Yeah,
(59:10):
steak tartar every night for Reggie. And I dig that.
I think that's cool. I read that right before we,
uh we started, and I was like, she left five
million dollars is some guy named Reggie? And then I
had to click on it. I was like, oh, now,
I understand, Yeah, that's I mean, there's animal lovers and
(59:31):
then there's animal lovers, and Diane Keaton one in a million.
Speaker 7 (59:36):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (59:37):
Well, Amber, I think that's a great place, uh to
sign off on this one. I want to thank you
for uh interrupting my work day the other day, because
the truth be told, you know, I just I'm at
work and you know, I get this random text and
you're like, Diane Keaton, tell me we're gonna do an episode.
(59:57):
And I was like, and my response was why why
the hell would It's right's scary movies. Why are we
doing why? And then you know, I didn't hear from
you for a minute, and I was like, what is
what's going on? Did something happened to Diane Keaton? And
then I, you know, I found out and I was like, well.
Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
And I fell back because your schedule is so different
from mine that I didn't realize at work. So I'm like, oh,
sure that's right on social media on our lunch break,
and yeah, I knew all about it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Yeah, So I was I was glad that you you
reached out, and I was glad that we did this because, uh,
you know, I hate to say it, we've done We've
done too many of these this season.
Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
It's kind of you know, like I'd like to pump
the brakes on these.
Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Types of to not do anymore. Let's let's make it six.
Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Yeah, I don't me wrong. I love doing our top
ten favorite performances.
Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
But I like honoring these legends in this way.
Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Like yeah, but I'd like to do it while they're
still with us. We'll try, we'll try, We'll try to
season well. Listeners, what do you think of Diane Keaton
and her her many amazing performances?
Speaker 10 (01:01:09):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Did? But did Amber? Did Amber's list? Did? Did she
have all of your picks? Are we missing some Amber?
I know there's some big movies out there that we
didn't talk about, like Red's Reds with Warren Batty. Yes,
which I that's on my list. I've always wanted to
see that.
Speaker 10 (01:01:23):
So uh but.
Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Listeners, Uh, let us know, like tell us, like what
which which Diane Keaton movies are we missing from this list?
You can reach out to us on social media. You'll
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when you do, if there's a chance we we we
call you out on a future episode. We'll definitely send
you some A film by Swag all right, Amber, Uh,
we'll get back to our regularly scheduled programming in just
(01:02:06):
a few days Monday. If I'm not mistaken, you and
I are back again talking about one of your favorite directors, Guermo.
Get it, mel del Toro. We're gonna do another another
episode for this incredible director. You want to, you want
tell him which what movie we're doing.
Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
We are doing The Devil's Backbone.
Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
The Devil's Back whone I one of his first one
of us is Free. I haven't seen this one, but
I love del Toro. I'd be surprised if I didn't
absolutely love it.
Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Interested to hear what you think because i've seen it
at But.
Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Yeah, Well, for all of you listening along us on
social media, subscribing to our Patreon, we thank you and
we'll see him Monday.
Speaker 7 (01:02:58):
To walk it.
Speaker 9 (01:03:01):
Seems like.
Speaker 7 (01:03:08):
Oh, having you to walk with and it's still a strip.
Just to hand my
I always was attracted to it since I can remember.
You know, I was very attracted to being on stage
or singing or being paid attention to. And I always
shined under those conditions, or I certainly felt good until
it was over, and then I felt guilty.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So we are smack dab in the middle of our
salute the scary movies. It's Halloween, it's October, but that
does not mean we are not going to stop what
we're doing so that we can pay tribute to arguably
one of the greatest actresses of all time. Is that
(01:05):
fair to say?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh, definitely.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So just the other day we saw that Diane Keaton
passed away. Amber, I am not even going to pretend
like I've seen the bulk of her work. Honestly, I
know we're talking seventy four acting credits to her resume.
I've seen four of them, and you and I were talking, Yeah,
(01:32):
I've got some work to do that, which is why
I asked you. I recognize how amazing she she was.
And I asked you, I said, you know you. You
were like, hey, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta do
a tribute to to Diane Keaton. And I said, well,
what I'm in the I can't I can't recommend anything,
(01:52):
but you can, like, how about you help me send
me a list? Like give me what are Amber Lewis's
top ten Diane keaton film performances? And I appreciate how
fat like you were, quick like you. Clearly I gotta
I gotta believe she's one of your favorite actresses. Yes, absolutely,
let's uh, let's hit let's take a pause on scary
(02:16):
movie season and let's talk about Diane Keaton and her
what we feel are our top ten favorite performances.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The winner is Diane Keaton. Well, it's simply true a
pick up naturally.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I'm very honored to have been nominated with actresses like
Jane Fonda and Shirley McClain and Anne Bankroft and Marsha Mason.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This is something anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Annie Hall was a wonderful experience for me, and I
just would like to say thanks to Woody and thank you,
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hello everybody, I'm Jeff Johnson, I'm Amber Lewis, and this
is a Film by podcast. We're dropping a special episode
this Friday because we wanted to pay tribute to the
legendary Diane Keaton and Amber. When we say legendary, we're
talking about an actress that was nominated sixty three times
(03:34):
for various awards, and one thirty seven of those sixty three,
which is incredible. Yeah, just focusing on the Big four,
which would be obviously we're talking about the Academy Awards.
Diane Keaton nominated four times for Best Actress in a
Leading Role. She wins nineteen seventy eight, she wins for
(03:59):
Any Hall, but she's also nominated nineteen eighty two for Red's,
nineteen ninety seven for Marvin's Room, and two thousand and
four for Something's Got to Give. I'm gonna tell you
right now, I have not seen any of those performances,
which I'm going to correct, and I'm gonna I'm thinking,
(04:22):
I know, I know one or more of these might
be on your list, which we will get to in
just a quick second. But I did want you to
know I did look in uh to Diane Keating. I
wanted I wanted this to still be. I know, we're
just gonna have a candid conversation. This is more or
less I'm almost asking you what are your what tell
Let's tell me why these ten performances are on your
(04:44):
list and why these are the ten that you know
we should watch. But before we do that, I know
we like to always, you know, when we're talking about
a director, we always do you know a couple facts
and a nice quote. Yes, yeah, So I've got a
couple of things I wanted to mentioned about Diane Keaton
and listen, I know you probably know these things, but
(05:05):
I thought, yeah, maybe you can shed a little light
or maybe you can add something that that maybe makes
sense of it. So I'll tell you right now. Let's
start off with one of my favorite things that I
found out just today. Diane Keaton amazing actress, amazing director.
She directed your music videos.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You didn't know this. Okay, you've watched them, you've seen them,
you've sung to these, You've sang along with these songs.
Amber like little Amber Lewis was singing along with these
songs back in the day. I've watched these videos a
one hundred times because I happen to be a big
fan of Belinda Carlisle.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I like her music. But my brother was like the
one that had the crush on her.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh well, so did I you know?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It was Oh my gosh. Her video came on. It
was stop the Presses.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah. Nineteen eighty seven, the music video for Heaven is
a Place on Earth, directed by Diane Keaton.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
A year later, nineteen eighty eight, she's back with Belinda
directing her music video for I Get Weak. So next
time you watch those videos, know that the talented director
behind the behind the camera was, in fact, Oscar winner
Diane Keane. I think, I think that's wild, Like I
would never if someone, anyone could have told me that,
(06:30):
and I would have been like, Nah, that's not that's
not true. No chance. Next thing I want to talk about,
we have to talk about this one. So Marlene Dietrich
started something back in the day that Catherine Hepburn continued
and amber, you know what I'm talking about, Like you're not,
and you're it's I'm talking about fashion. And how so
(06:51):
Diane Keaton revives this this fashion trend where women are
wearing you know, suits, they're wearing what typically would be
considered male clothing, you know, ties and bowler hats and
what have you. It kind of went away and then
Diane Keaton brings it back. In nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, and like.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Marlene and Dietrich and Katherine Hepburn, it wasn't like a
little bit. It was in the seventies where she was
literally wearing men's clothing, but it quickly evolved to you know,
fashion houses tailoring that type of outfit to her. So
it was women's clothing in that style tailored to her.
(07:41):
So it looked glamorous all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And this this starts with it's seventy seven, so we're
talking Annie Hall. Yes, right, okay, so that's people.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
She shows up and Annie Hall and everybody lost their
goddamn mindes.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Okay, Okay, I haven't seen any Hall.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You know that we I know I'm gonna coaxed to you.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well that's that's what That's what this conversation is all about.
I I have ten picks from Amber Lewis in front
of me, and I'm looking at someone going obviously because
I have seen someone, Like I said, I've seen four
of her movies. You know, I mean it's not zero, Yeah,
it's not zero.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I've seen It's not only The Godfather.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's exactly thank you. But you know, the whole point
of this conversation is to your point, like you know,
you're the voice of reason, so maybe you're gonna reason
with me, and maybe maybe I go, Okay, well, I'm
gonna check this one out now that now that you
told me about this number three pick, I gotta I
gotta see it, right or you know, and I just
I just said number three. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see
(08:43):
one more thing before we move on. Did you know
that she has a street named after her in front
of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
No, I did not.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
She went there, you know, she alumni though. Yeah, that's nice,
you know, and she lived. She lived in California, so
I'm sure she's like, eh, I'm gonna go down Diane
Keaton Street. You know right, I would if there was
a Jeff Johnson Street in Cincinnati, I'd be driving that
all the time. Go out, I'd go out of my way,
like here, you know, it's not forty five minute drive. No,
(09:17):
it is because we're taking we're taking the long way.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We have to take my route.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We're going We're going, We're going my route. Can I
share a quote with you?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Now, I gotta tell you there's a lot of stuff
out there that really revolved around you know, her love life, and.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Oh my god, that's all anybody ever wanted to ask
her was about the guys that she did.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, but but I found and like a lot of
it was tied to like her dating life, right, And
so I was happy when I found this one. This
is Diane Keaton's advice to people. Don't give up on yourself.
So you make a mistake here and there, you do
too much or you do too little, just have fun,
(10:02):
smile and keep putting on lipstick. Amber. I gotta tell you,
I'm gonna do at least two of those three. I'll
leave it to you to figure out which ones.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But that's that's a great love that.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, that's a great outlook. You know what I'm I know,
I got I got one more thing for you. I
got one more little tidbit. I'm gonna save it to
the end though, because it's gonna you know, because I
know you might, you might get a little, you might
get a little emotional with some of these picks. I
know that. But I got I gotta I gotta feel good.
(10:38):
And I just learned this like two minutes before we
started recording and talking awesome, and I was like, oh,
I can't wait to drop that on there. But I'm
gonna wait, I'm gonna hold that to the end, okay,
because that's it. Just yeah, it just it just put
a big smile on my face. So okay, So without
further ado, then let's start off, and Amber, I kind
of get the vibe. This is these are your favorites.
(10:59):
It's not like we're not ranking them. We're not saying
this one's better than that one. This is just your
top ten.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
So take what you know, right, Yeah, these are these
are my favorites, these ones that I'll throw on anytime.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay, Okay, So let's start with your number ten, because
I'm a I'm a little I'm a little confused because
you know, you like to break the rules and I
see two choices here, and I'm I'm gonna I'm assuming
you're gonna explain why there's two, right, Okay.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Okay, So at number ten, Annie Hall from nineteen seventy
seven and Manhattan Murder Mystery from nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Hi hi, hi, oh hi, hi.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Well bye.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You play very well?
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Oh yeah, so do you?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Oh god, what a what a dumb thing to say, right,
I mean, you say you playing well and then right
away I have to say, you play well, oh oh god, Annie, Well,
oh well, Ladi dati da.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Okay, So I know Annie Hall. She's playing Annie Hall, yes,
And she's playing Carol Lipton in Manhattan Murder Mystery. So
she's not playing the same person. So you're.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
She's not playing a character with the same name, but
they're pretty much the same person.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Now. I haven't seen any Hall, but I do know he.
I know basically this role was written for her. It
is her, yes, And you're saying Carol Lipton is also her, yeah,
playing herself in these movies.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Well yeah, I mean a lot. Yeah, And it's their
dynamic together.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
And you know, we all know that Woody Allen and
my extension his films are problematic, but we're not here
to talk about that. You know, it's not what this
episode is about. But after eight films together, you can't
address Diane Keaton's legacy without mentioning a witty Allen film,
(13:12):
especially not Annie Hall. And these two, to me are
bookends because you have Annie Hall and then fifteen years
later you've got Carol Lipton and Annie Hall. Is all
about the relationship between Annie and Alvi Singer and how
(13:33):
they meet, they fall in love, and eventually break up. Okay,
and it's she's the one that got away, you know.
And you may go on to be happy, you know,
with someone else down the line, but this will always
be the one that got away. And Manhattan Murder Mystery
is what would have happened if they had stayed together
(13:53):
and gotten married. And now here they are after being
married for fifteen twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Years and someone gets more and someone gets murdered.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Okay, so they okay, I just want to clarify, like
they're like one didn't kill the other, okay, because you're like,
what happens if they stay together? It's a it's a murder.
So let me ask because I you know again, and
I know she did, like what eight films with with
with Woody Allen any Hall. The first one is Manhattan
Murder Mystery.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
That any Hall was not the first one. It was
like the third, okay, but this is like the one
that the infamous one, the one that she's known before
she won the Academy Award for it.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I got you so And you're saying that these kind
of bookend each other. Yes, okay, that's fair, just because I'm.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Perfectly willing to never watch another Woody Allen movie again,
but I can't give up on these two.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Beautiful Can I give you a Can I give you
a little extra credit here, A little fun fact? I
learned something. I can't do this, you know, I just
happened to stumble up on this. Any Hall, you said,
she's basically kind of playing herself in Annie Hall? Right, Yes,
I come to find out Diane Keaton. You know that's
not her real name, right right? Okay, well, okay, obviously
(15:10):
you know, but for our listener, but that's okay. I'll
be honest. You know, we don't. We're not. We're not
putting on a show here. Well we are, but you
get it, we kind of are.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Diane Keaton is actually Diane Hall. And Diane Hall always
went by the nickname Annie, so I mean he could
have called it Diane Keaton. I mean might as well.
All Right, your number nine pick is I've never seen
it again. I know, I got a lot of work
(15:43):
to do here, but I recognize the film title. It's
it's it's like one of those film titles. You hear
it and it's like cinema history.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What are we talking about Looking for Mister Goodbar, also
nineteen seventy seven. I can't stay here and be myself.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
She's like a lot of girls alone. Who's at the
bars alone?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It's kind of sad. Cheer up.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
I mean they don't leave alone.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
She's never been in that bar before.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Huh right, right, right?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So where did you want to go? It makes me
feel good.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
You didn't know anybody there.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
They're that way, you know.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
I mean, you're drinking your nack.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
None of that off small too.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I'll keep in touch. You've got one thing me, Oh
that's what you've got, and to hold on to me.
It's got to be me, not only me.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Get this into one of your two heads, the only
one that can think.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I am my own girl.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
I have belong to me.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Now get out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah. Two movies nineteen seventy seven. She plays Teresa Dunn
in Looking for Mister Goodbar. What is this movie about?
Because like the title just sounds like someone's hung your
for a candy bar.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
No, no, I know that can't be what educate education.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
So this movie is a little bit People think why
she got the oscar for Annie Hall Because if you
watch these two movies, like they could not be two
different characters. Okay, So it's based on a true story
that was then there was a book written, Looking for
(17:16):
Mister Goodbar, which everybody read back in the day.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Ok And then like two.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Years after the book came out, they made this movie.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
And it's about this woman who is a school teacher
and you know, she's in like her mid twenties, you know,
in the seventies, and she's you know, very conservative, and
she's this great elementary school teacher.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I think she teaches at a school for the deaf.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
And then she goes out at night and goes to
bars and picks up men and is adventurous with drugs
and sex and what.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And Jane Keaton is in this role.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
And she's living like this second life.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I'm putting a note here next to Looking for Mister Goodbar.
It's all all caps. It says watch this.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
It's very controversial and you won't see where the ending
is coming.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I think I cannot believe she plays.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Don't read anything else about it. Just watch it.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Oh no, I just okay, I'm in you got you got,
you got my attention. It is with me on.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Issues about how it ends, But I mean it's real.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It happened, but real quick. Uh you said you have
issues with the healthy end and don't don't give it away.
But is it? Is it the ending? Did they stick
to the book ending or did they change it.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
From I mean no, it's based on real life, like it's.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Oh, this is actually oh okay, it's what happened.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's what was in the book.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And yeah, okay, all right, all right, I you got
you got me, uh, I got me intrigued. I'm gonna
find looking for mister goodbar. I'm see where its streaming
or see if I gotta I.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Got a bar half up like three dollars for it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But that's why that sounds worth it, all right. Number eight,
we're making out. We're gonna we're gonna count down to
number one here. But what's what's number eight?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
So number eight is a movie called Hampstead from twenty
seventeen that I found because it co stars Brendan Gleeson
and my son adores.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Him, love Brendan Gleeson, and.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
So he wanted to watch it because he saw that
Brendan Gleeson was in it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And I was like, oh, Diane Keaton.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I'm man, Okay, she's playing Emily Walters.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Well, well, come on, these towers are a health hazard,
and I would expect somebody who actually lives around there.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
People wanted to say, attached to their radioactive walkie talkies,
it's their business.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Do I like what they're doing? No? Do I like them?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Probably not. Do I respect their right to do as
their little shallow hearts desired?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I most certainly do so.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
No, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
If I were a beton man wage or now that
you don't really have a dog in this ones either.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
You don't know me.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
If you know me, and where I live, I know.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I am the one I call the police. What, Yes,
the other night you were being attacked and I saw
you from my windows, So I telephone the police and
I live. I live over there at West Teeth Road.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
I saw it all. I just I don't know. Are
you all right?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I'm spiffy.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You've You've got me on the hook with Brendan Gleason.
M hmm, keep keep me there?
Speaker 10 (20:31):
How?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
What What's what's Hampstead about?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
So it's a romantic comedy. It's based on an actual
guy who lived in like this shack that he built
on Hampstead Heath in London, and you know, he's just
kind of squatting and the developers want to come in
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and put in like a bunch of a part and
buildings and stuff, and he is arguing with the city
and saying, like, I've been here for seventeen years.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I deserve to stay here. This is my home.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
She lives nearby and they meet cute and start up
a relationship, and she's recently widowed.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And the thing that I love about her.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
In this movie and this character is it's so reminiscent
of a character that Katherine Hepburn would have played if
they had made this movie like forty years ago. Interesting,
Katherine Hepburn would have been in this movie, you know,
from it's like the way she's styled, to the fact
that she doesn't look to Brendan Gleeson's character to solve
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her problems, like she deals with her own stuff. And
she also doesn't just like throw away her life and
her values to follow this kind of like bohemian life
that he.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Has built for himself.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
You know, like, yeah, you know, they come together, but
it's on her terms and I like that.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
It's very sweet. It's like just a delightful little movie.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Okay, I don't know. I don't know about that one.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
But it's a little rhym com for you.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
But this isn't my list. It's okay. Before we move
on to number seven though, so we drop back to
number nine. Yes, just one more thing about Looking for
Mister Goodbar. Yes, before we move on. You said it
was probably you said that was the performance that probably
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got people looking at her for Andy Hall.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
My question to you that got her the Oscar where
they looked at year and we're like, holy crap, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, that's But what I'm saying is you've seen these two,
they're on your list, you're recommending them. Is she better
in Annie Hall or is she better in Looking for
Mister Goodbar? What's the better what's the better performance? Because
if this one's getting her the Oscar attention for a
different role, I'm wondering, like putting you on the spot here,
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Like Teresa Dunn, there.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Is nothing like Annie Halt. There's just nothing like her
in this movie. Like I'm just begging you to watch it.
Just ignore would he Allen every time he comes on
the screen, and just look at Diane Keaton.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That's a tall order but I'll try.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I know, I know it won't be hard because she's
like the whole movie.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I'm gonna go buy a Mister Goodbar and I'm gonna
I'm gonna watch this, and that's that's my movie snack.
Oh my god, I can't. I'm kind of you got
be ready for it. With watch this, I was just like, well,
wait a minute, hold on Oscar talk. Could she have
been nominated for both of them? In your opinion?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I know that was a time
when we weren't doing that, like.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
But.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Because Looking for Mister Goodbar, like, it's such an anomaly
in her filmography. I can't think of of another like
Annie Hall. It's so much her personality that you see
pieces of it and other things that she's done. But
Teresa Done, I feel like, is its own thing.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I know we've been zigging, but I got a zag.
I'm gonna I'm gonna shut down our Looking for Mister
Goodbar episode and I'm gonna jump back into your Okay,
your top ten. So number seven, So we started off,
she's in Annie Hall basically playing herself, and I got
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to ask about your number seven.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Pick number seven is the book Club from twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Eighteen where she's playing Diane.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Right, and you kind of feel like all of these
legendary actresses in this movie are kind of being themselves.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Oh I'm really.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
I'm so sorry as well.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
No, I really didn't mean to disturb you.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I know, I know.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
Oh it is so humili.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
I'm really scared offying. Oh yeah, well I won't be
once these kick into my bloodstream.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
The safest way to travel?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Do you know when you think that, why because you've
never really met anybody who's been in a plane crash
and you want to know why?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Why because they're all dead.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I think those pills that are affecting you already.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
My god, what takes you to Arizona?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oh my daughters lived there. That should be fun. Not exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
They're kind of forcing me to go. Well, my husband
he died last year. So playing crush?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So is she playing herself in book Club?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Then? I mean, yeah, probably a little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, Okay, she's playing easy. You know I'm Diane and
I'm playing Diane.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
What's up? Tell me about book Club? Because I in
my my my minor research, I saw there's a sequel.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
To it, yes, which I haven't seen Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
We'll just let's just talk about book club.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
The premise is ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
It's these women who have had a book club for
like forty years, okay, and they and Jane Fonda is
like like kind of the wild one of the group.
And she shows up and it's her turn to pick
the book and she picks fifty Shades of Gray. What
(26:53):
And so they read it and they're all just kind
of like some of them are inspired to be spicy
with their heads and some of them are, you know,
inspired to go on a dating app because they've been
single for a long time. But Diane Keaton is her
character's a little bit different than the others. When she's
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in a group, she's usually the outlier, and it's the
same in this one. She is widowed, okay, and she
has two daughters who are convinced that she cannot handle
her life on her own.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
They're like trying to you know.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
The one daughter is played by Elisia Silverstone, and she's
trying to get her to like move it, you come
live with me and.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
My family, you know, and she's like, I don't want
to do that. I like my house. I'm perfectly fine,
you know.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
And it's you know, I have a widowed mother and
I have felt the way Alicia Silverstone's character feels. I'm
also a single mom and I have my son who's
like very protective, and I'm like, it's okay, I got this.
So I can see on different levels, I really identify
with this character.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I can see why you're connected to this one. Then
that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
And it's fun to see these like icons from the seventies,
all these wonderful actresses, like they're older, but they're funny
and sexy, and you know they carry this movie.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
It's a hoot.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Your number six pick immediately got my attention, really, and
it's not because I've seen it and it's it's because
of the year it came out. Oh, yes, give us
missed it. I guess, I guess so.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
From nineteen eighty six Crimes of the Heart. Who like
this candy.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Man?
Speaker 11 (28:52):
Do you see this was my one and only birthday
present to May And look what she's gone and down?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Will you please say that she's taking a one.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
Little bit at it, each piece of candy in this box.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
And then she just put it right back in. Oh
that is just so much like her.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Nny so I can't help it. I can't help it.
It just gets me mad, It gets me upset. Well,
Megan's always done wild. You know, she started smoking and
drinking when she was fourteen years old. She never mayr
old bitch.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
She ever made.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
It's the great it somehow she always seemed to give
what she wanted. Well, you remember how she's the one
us sing the nantass, and you know you remember how
she always had twelve golden Jinga belts sewed under her petticoats.
Well you and I were only allowed three apiece.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Just tell me why? Why?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
What?
Speaker 7 (29:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (29:39):
I can't help it, babe, It just gets me so mad.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Look at this Crimes of the Heart. We we did
our limited series for nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I know, we closed the door.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
We revived it on Patreon to do another twenty episodes,
so that we now have eighty six episodes about nineteen
eighty six. Eighty six for thirty six is perfect. I
have never heard of Crimes of the Heart and you're
telling me.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
You've never even heard of it, never even heard of it, and.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
You're telling me that it stars Diane Keaton Sissy Spacek.
And there's one more right, than there, Jessica Lang. Okay,
so Diane Keaton is playing uh, Lenny McGrath. Yes, what's
this about? What's what's Crimes of the Heart? Tell me?
Because now it's nineteen eighty six, and now I feel
like I'm obligated. I don't I don't know what you're
(30:30):
about to say, but I know it's I have to
see it because otherwise I lose my I lose a
little bit of street cred. Right eighty six is the
greatest here for you to watch this, and I will
be I promise I will. I'm circling it.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
It is based on the nineteen eighty one Pulitzer Prize
winning play about three eccentric Southern sisters okay, and their
relationships with each other and their relationship and ships with men.
They have kind of scattered and they come back together
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in their family home because the youngest.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Sister, Babe played by Sissy Spacek, has shot her husband.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
She didn't kill him, Okay, she.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Tried but she missed so, but she did injure him
very badly. He's in the hospital.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
So then Lennie has is the oldest that's Diane Keaton's character, Okay,
and she's the one that as a firstborn daughter, I
identify with.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
You know, she is trapped by this responsibility.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
She's taking care of taking care of their grandfather who
raised them, and taking care of her sisters, and she
doesn't really take care of herself because she did it
isn't take care of other people. And like you know
we said before with book Club, like she's in this
big group and she's the outlier.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
You know. Jessica Lang plays Meg, who's the one in
the middle. She's the flashy one.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
She was gonna go to Hollywood and become a star,
you know, babes the baby, So she gets all the
attention and Lenny's just kind of forgotten.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
And it's interesting to see what Diane Keaton does with that.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
All Right, I'm gonna I want to tell you you
got two movies that are definitely on my list at
this point that I definitely have to see. And then
Crimes of the Heart. It's nineteen six. I have to
see it.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Okay. I feel terrible, like we we did we close
the close the series out, and I feel like maybe
this is when we should have we should have got well.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
And I really love also when a movie is based
on a play, and you get that flavor of it
being a play.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, when you're watching it, I.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Think death Trap comes to mind when you say something
like that. Yeah, that's I love it.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
I mean, given the subject matter, I was thinking more
steel my noise, but yeah, death Trap as well.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Okay, your number five pick.
Speaker 10 (33:05):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I have not seen it, and I know they made
it's it's a franchise, got a great one of my
favorite actors in it. So let's let's let's talk about it.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yes, Father of the Bride from nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, Nina Banks, she's a I get, I get. I
mean I've never seen it, but I get it. Like
it's Dank Heaton and Steve Martin. Yes, their daughters getting married,
and Martin.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Shorts there to be he's the wedding planner.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
He's the wedding planner. Because that's okay with.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Like a fabulous you're a trash accent?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Okay, all right, So Follow the Bride? Does it look
like my cup of tea? But maybe I'm ready to
ready to poor poor some Like, tell me, tell me
about Father Bride? Why do I need to see this one?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
So Father the Bride is interesting because it's a remake
of a Spencer Tracy movie.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yes that I know, and it just takes it and
then you know, dials it up to eleven.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Steve Martin is hilarious. He is not prepared for his
little girl to get married. The whole thing is costing
a fortune and it's driving him crazy. He has like
one of my favorite meltdowns ever in a grocery store,
Like I quote that meltdown all the time.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Excuse me, sir, what are you doing? I'll tell you
what I'm doing.
Speaker 10 (34:27):
I want to buy eight hot dogs and eight hot
dog buns to go with them, but no one sells
eight hot dog buns. They only sell twelve hot dog buns,
so I end up paying for four buns I don't need.
So I am removing the superfluous buns.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
I'm sorry, sir, but you're gonna have to pay for
all twelve buns. They're not marked individually.
Speaker 10 (34:47):
Yeah, you want to know why, because some big shot
over at the Wiener company got together with some big
shot over at the Bun company and decided to rip
off the American public because they think the American public
is a bunch of trusting nitwits need rather than make
us spink. Well, they're not ripping off this nit wet
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anymore because I'm not paying for one more thing I
don't need. George Banks is saying no.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
And what's interesting is Diane Keaton as his wife, Nina.
She's this gifted comedian. I mean, she is hilarious and
she is the straight man, and she's there to keep
him calm and remind him how much he loves his daughter,
and you know, rain him in when he is out
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of control.
Speaker 10 (35:45):
That was the low point, flipping out over four hot
dog bunds. I couldn't figure out why I've gotten so
nuts by the wedding had me so unglued to.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Banks, your wife is here, an't you gonna let me out?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
She wants to talk to you first.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
She wants to talk to me first.
Speaker 10 (36:14):
Hello, George, Why do you look happy to see me
in here?
Speaker 7 (36:19):
Now?
Speaker 10 (36:19):
Now?
Speaker 7 (36:19):
Happy?
Speaker 10 (36:21):
No?
Speaker 7 (36:21):
No, no, I'm not happy, George.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
And I do have a story that I saw after
she passed away that I just loved. Steve Martin and
Martin Short do concerts. They travel around and do these
concerts that are really really funny, and they were doing
a show like I think the day after and they
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told the story and then they put her a picture
up on the screen and.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Like raised a toast to her.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
It was really sweet, but they said that it was
either doing the making of this movie or the sequel.
Martin short asked her, who do you think is sexier
me or Steve? And she said, I mean, you're both idiots.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
That's the one way to answer. Yeah, and she's I
like that she's insulting both of them, but also she's
not hurting either one of their feelings, right, like.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
She loves them both.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
And you can just tell what the dynamic was on
those sets. And the fact that they told that story
I think was adorable.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Your number four pick I absolutely have not seen.
Speaker 10 (37:32):
Me like that.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Well when that he's seen this movie, everybody.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Has I did. Okay, yeah, the First Wife's Club, you know.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I jumped again.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
But yes, that's it. Yeah, we've been separated from months now.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Let's not over dramatized.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Okay, Aaron, She's allowed to be angry.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Annie, Let's use this.
Speaker 7 (37:53):
He's found someone new. You're free closure.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
That is not what is Annie. No, no, no, Annie,
you are not helping us out here now. I am
sorry in this way.
Speaker 11 (38:06):
I am very sorry I ever met you, and I
am fine that I allow myself to love you for
all those years. I'm sorry I did nothing but be
there for you every minute of every day and by you.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
In your every Now, hey, we we did. We did
another limited series nineteen ninety six. Yep, this was not
on the list.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Well see I was not here then to put women
on the movie you know scene.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You do know that you were here?
Speaker 7 (38:42):
You did?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah? Yeah, yes, you were you. You did one of
our nineteen ninety six episodes, as I recall, you did
the Craft with Yeah, you did the Craft with our
good our good friend, our slasher girl, Amanda Janic. Yes, yeah,
you're around. Do you remember I was so excited about
the Craft. I that's fair.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
First Wife's Club fall, by the way side.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Give me a little bit of credit here there.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
This is I know.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
I know.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
The premise is you've got one one woman gets dumped
for like the husband goes after younger girl and then
her friends. Her two friends try to no no no
no no no no. Okay. So I'm just bab I'm
going off the trailer that I saw.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
It's for four girlfriends, Okay, Stockard Channing, she was in it. Well,
I'll get to that.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn and they went
to college together and they were best friends. Okay, So
then they grow up, they get married, they kind of
lose touch, and Stockard Channing's husband leaves her okay, and
she falls into a depression.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
She writes a note to each of the women and
then she harms herself. So they come together for her
funeral and they reunite.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
And once they reunite and re ignite their friendship, they
realize they've all been going through the same thing. Diane
Keaton's husband is leaving her but using her to like
keep the business going. Bette Midler's husband left her for
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Okay, and you're like, I can't understand that, but no.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
I'm not trying to be a jerk, Jeffrey.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
And then Goldie Hahn is like famous actress with lots
of really funny uh plastic surgery, and her husband left
her for Elizabeth Banks, which I definitely know you that,
but still he's better.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Horrible.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
I can I redeem myself real quick? What's that you said?
Speaker 5 (40:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
You said the one guy left Bette Midler or you
left Betty, he left Bette Midler for who Sarah? Okay,
if you give me, if you're if you're offering up
Bette Midler at the end of Ruthless People from nineteen
eighty six, Yes, I'm definitely taking Bette Midler over Sarah.
Jessica Parker. Proud for you, I promise you, all right.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
So they come together in a plot for revenge, okay,
get revenge against our bastard cheating husbands.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
So they're like, is this like a murder plot or
like no, They're.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
They're gonna hit him where it hurts. They hit him
in the wallet, they hit him in the reputation.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
They oh, okay, they.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Really put him through it, and you know they it's
they're all very heightened emotions, but Goldie Hawn and Bette
Midler are the really outrageous characters. And Diane Keaton is
trying to keep everything together and remain calm and you know,
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be sensible, and she's the glue that kind of holds
them together.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I happen to notice here because we've been we've been
offering up her character names for these performances. Diane Keaton
again playing character named Annie. Yes, Annie mcduggan and Verdice?
Is that am I saying that? Right? Okay?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Well interesting your third pick. Should we take a quick
break and then and then do your top three?
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:26):
All right, Well we're gonna take a quick break and
then we'll be right back to see what three performances
are on Amber's list. And I gotta tell you two
out of three are awesome. Maybe maybe three is all.
I don't know. I haven't seen that one. You haven't
seen it, So we'll be right back. All right, we
(42:48):
are back. Amber has been giving us her top ten
favorite film roles by the legendary Diane Keaton, who we
recently lost. Amber. I know your number three pick is
a sequel to a huge, huge movie, but I'm telling
(43:09):
you I haven't seen it, and I'm kind of surprised,
like she's doing I didn't know she. I didn't know
she did voice work.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
It's a very small part.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
This is a small part. It's your number three, Yes,
tell I have a reasons. Okay, what do we talk about.
Speaker 5 (43:23):
From twenty sixteen? It's Jenny in Finding Dory. She plays
Dory's mother.
Speaker 9 (43:31):
I'm playing Dory's mother, and my name is Jenny. And
my feeling about Jenny is that Jenny is a really
good hearted person, but not too bright. She's not a
really smart person, but she's very determined and she's, you know,
on mission. She's on a big mission, and her mission
is to find her daughter because she's just.
Speaker 7 (43:47):
In a panic.
Speaker 9 (43:49):
I'm not really a voiceover actor person. But what I
liked about Andrew was he made it fast. Things went fast,
and and you know, sometimes you didn't have to stick
directly to the script, which really feels good, and you
can kind of just kind of play into Ankne unless
you try a lot of things.
Speaker 7 (44:08):
But he moves it.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
He keeps the action going. I really like that because
I like a lot of energy. I think Pixar gets
who you are in your mouth and how you express yourself,
and so it's it's I don't know how they do that.
I mean, it's just it's kind of like a miracle.
I think they kind of I don't know it. It's amazing.
I mean they just really kind of you see that
(44:30):
it's Diane talking in a weird way.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
So Finding Dory picks up, you know, we're finding Nemo
left off and Dorry starts having these flashbacks, and she
starts remembering her childhood, and she's remembering her parents, and
she's remembering like where she came from, and these flashbacks
and here's where I'm gonna get like checked out as
(44:56):
the mother of a neurodivergent child. To here Diane Keaton
and Eugene Levy, who plays Dory's dad, like they're coming
up with these strategies to try to help her not
get lost because every time she leaves the house, she
can't remember how to get back. And there's one scene
(45:17):
where Dory's in bed and they're whispering, and Jenny is
so worried about her, like, you know, what are we
gonna do? We have to take care of her. How's
she gonna be able to do things on her own?
And to have like lived that and have such an
understanding script. And then the way Diane Keaton just like
(45:39):
infuses the voice work with this warmth and humanity, like
it's just this beautiful little bit part that she did
in this kid's movie.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
I I find it amazing that she can have such
a small role but can make such an impact on you.
And I'm sure plenty of other people and we're and
it's a Disney Pixar movie. Yep, you know, we we
let's just take the toddlers to you know, they see
(46:11):
colors and shapes on the screen, they'll be they'll be fine.
But I I really, I really dig the fact that
they can they can have sustenance for for adults. Can
you see these films? That's really cool, that's that's fair.
Speaker 5 (46:23):
And everybody was talking about it, you know, after the
movie came out, they were like, oh, we thought it
was just going to be like a fun sequel, and
then we got hit in the you know, oh my
has a d D too.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
You know, kind of feels your number two pick. I'm
going to say, and I know you can disagree with me, yes,
but I'm going to say it's probably okay with exception
to Annie Hall.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
Yes, probably agree with me after you watch it.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Probably her most memorable film role. And I'll tell you
right now, speaking giving you the male perspective, this is
the character every man I'm planning on earth is if
you've seen a Diane Keaton movie, you've seen this performance.
Oh yeah, at least I honest, Oh.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Yeah, Well, and I have thoughts you're gonna be surprised.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
Okay, so I.
Speaker 5 (47:17):
Specified Godfather one and two in nineteen seventy two and
nineteen seventy four, she plays k.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Yeah, and three she said, let's be Hones three nineteen ninety.
She's in the third one. But Kay Adams, the wife
of Michael Corleone.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
I didn't want your son, Michael.
Speaker 11 (47:40):
I wouldn't bring another one of your sons into this world.
Speaker 8 (47:45):
It wasn't abortion, Michael, it was a son, a son,
and I had to kill because this must all end.
Speaker 7 (47:55):
I know now that it's over.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael,
no way you could ever forgive me, not with this.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Sicilian thing that's been going on for two thousands.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Okay, so here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (48:16):
Yeah, I hate her from the moment she her eyes
what until her last scene kidding.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
I have no patience for her bullshit.
Speaker 5 (48:29):
And that's why I don't like the third one is
because I hate that she and Michael kind of reconcile.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
I'm like, screw that, absolutely not. She is the absolute worst.
Speaker 5 (48:41):
And you know how I struggle to celebrate separate like
the character from the actor. Because we talked about this
with Jeff Daniels from terms of endearment, like it was
decades before I could watch that man and anything and
not want to just throw something at the screen.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
I can't wait to talk in terms of endearment with
you at some point, because Flap is awesome. Sorry, hey,
it shows you.
Speaker 5 (49:12):
But it shows great actress she is that not only
can I still watch and enjoy The Godfather and enjoy
hating her, but I love her other movies, like I
can completely divorce her from any other film that she's made,
like she's just not the same person, Like she completely
inhabits this character and then completely sheds her so you
(49:36):
can enjoy her other movies.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
And Kay Adams is such a sad character when you think,
hold on, wait, ye hold on, give me, let me,
let me because you're let me land this plane. I'm
not saying that she's not annoying. I'm saying she's a
sad character. And here's why.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
Here's why.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
She is infatuated with young Michael Corleone.
Speaker 7 (49:58):
And then he.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Basically ghosts her. He goes to Italy for however long,
finds another woman, marries her, she dies, He comes back
to New York, looks her up after several years, and
She's immediately like, where's she been? Like what she been doing?
We don't know because she's right back in his arms.
(50:22):
I'm like, come on, like, come on, kay, you couldn't
have you could have found another guy, You couldn't have
found happiness. She's she put everything on hold for this
guy and it didn't really, it really didn't work out
for her. That's sad.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (50:36):
She knew what she was getting into. She knew from
the minute he brought her to that wedding. The first
story he told her was about how they threatened to
kill a guy. Like, yeah, don't turn around at the
end of that movie and be horrified by what you
got yourself into.
Speaker 3 (50:52):
Uh huh. And I don't even want to talk about
the second movie like that.
Speaker 7 (50:55):
Ever.
Speaker 5 (50:56):
I have never wanted a bitch to get slapped more
than I wanted the slapper in that movie.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I was so happy Amber Justice once you can ask
about my business. So you're you're gonna you're closing the door.
Let's close the door on kadamsche did Okay, that is shocking.
I can't believe your number two pick on a Diane
(51:22):
Keaton top ten and you love this woman and you
just you just couldn't stand the character. That's that's awesome,
all right. Uh your number one pick is such a fun,
lighthearted movie. It's fantastic. It absolutely is. I watched I
used to watch this all. This was this one of
(51:44):
those movies that was on showtime like four times a
day in the you know, in the late eighties, early nineties.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
What yep, I love this one.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
What do you got?
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Uh from nineteen eighty seven baby boom?
Speaker 4 (51:55):
Well, do you know like approximity how much this is
gonna cost me?
Speaker 6 (51:58):
No, Brian, Yeah, well just guess five.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Six thousand dollars maybe more.
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Oh well, that's just fine.
Speaker 11 (52:05):
That's that I've had. I can't make it here, Okay.
Speaker 7 (52:09):
I mean I am not I am not to bad,
you know, all right.
Speaker 4 (52:12):
I went to Harvard, I graduated the top of my class.
Speaker 7 (52:15):
For what to spend my life.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
Fixing up this eleminated shack where you can just forget
it because I'm gonna get.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Out of here.
Speaker 11 (52:23):
You see, I need to work, I need people, I
need social life, I need sex.
Speaker 10 (52:31):
Please, I'm a married man.
Speaker 4 (52:35):
Die here. I mean, how much bettyful this person's supposed
to kill with?
Speaker 7 (52:39):
I'm making their lifetime.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
I mean, I am a career woman.
Speaker 11 (52:42):
I am used to having full less and dinner meanings.
Speaker 10 (52:46):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 9 (52:49):
No, I have been yupped and note to death by
you guys.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
I have had it with whiskers and plaid.
Speaker 8 (52:56):
Look at me.
Speaker 7 (52:57):
I am going nuts.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
I used to be. I'm not prepared for wealth run dry.
Speaker 4 (53:04):
I just want to turn on the font and have water.
Speaker 3 (53:07):
I don't want to know where it's coming from.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Six baby boom. She's j C. Wyatt Amber. I don't
even I'm not even going to pretend to wonder why this.
Not only is this on your list, but it's your
number one pick, because I know all about this character
and what she represents. But I want you to tell
us about j. C. Wyatt and why she's your number one.
Speaker 5 (53:36):
So as the ultimate power hungry yuppie. I mean, this
is such an eighties movie. Executive turned stay at home
single mom turned balanced mother slash career woman. Like you said,
I watched this movie one hundred times and it was
(53:58):
the one that I saw the most frequently mentioned on
social media after she died.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
This was the one that everybody was, you know, just
talking and.
Speaker 5 (54:07):
Reminiscing about she is utterly believable in the beginning as
a woman who is like fighting her way to the
top of the corporate ladder and you know, dealing with
like misogyny and double standards and glass ceilings, and you
one hundred percent believe that this is who she is
and this is all that she wants in life. And
(54:29):
then her switch once she becomes the guardian of this
baby is so natural and so such a slow burn,
and it's awkward, and you know she's just trying her
best and has like no clue and you believe every
(54:52):
step of it. And then she retires from the corporate life.
She buys this farm in Vermont and she's like, Okay,
I'm going to the person that relaxes and picks apples,
and I'm raising this little girl.
Speaker 3 (55:06):
And then the way that she shows you her frustration and.
Speaker 5 (55:12):
Her loneliness, and she's not unhappy with her choice to
raise this baby, she's not unhappy with where she's living.
She's just lonely and it's not enough, it's not fulfilling enough.
And so she kind of accidentally starts this gourmet baby
food company and she finds this way of balancing, you know,
(55:39):
having a corporate life and being a mom, and you know,
for those of us, I mean, I worked because I
had to, but I also worked because that kept me saying,
like I could not have been a stay at home mom.
My mom did it with three kids, and I don't
know how she did it, because I had lost my mind.
And to see someone who shows that you can do
(55:59):
both and still be a good mom and still be
you know, good at your job, it's just so satisfying.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
It is a fantastic comedy and kind of blows my
mind that in nineteen eighty seven you were going to
the movies to see an amazing actress like Diane Keaton
in Baby Boom, and that same year you could go
to the theater and see Ted Danson and Tom Selleck
(56:31):
and Steve Gutenberg in Three Men and a Little Baby,
Because well it's not the same movie, it's the same
premise where a little baby comes along and just totally
changes people's you know, like your your lives are upside
down and don't I don't know if Jason and d
are listening to this, but like, we need, we need
(56:51):
the Baby Boom versus three minute little Baby, right I read?
I don't know, I don't know which which which one
I'd pick. I don't know which one they pick, but
you know that'd be a fun one to You know, guys,
if you're listening, we need a matchup. Give us, give
us the matchup. Fantastic Amber. I love I loved your
(57:14):
number one pick. I love the movie. I watched a
bunch of times I was a little and it was fantastic.
Now you have given me some great films to check out.
I'm excited to check out some of these, several of these. Actually,
if I'm telling the truth, I told you I had
one more little little tidbit about Donne Keaton. I wanted
(57:36):
to end on a on.
Speaker 3 (57:37):
I forgot we were having something.
Speaker 2 (57:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I learned this today from the
Hollywood Insider. Apparently, Diane Keaton used to joke that her
great loves were her children, al Pacino Architecture, and Reggie Amber.
She left Reggie five million dollars in her will. Now,
(58:05):
from the look of your face, I think you know
who Reggie is. Here's the amazing thing, listeners, Reggie is
her golden retriever. If you didn't know, because it's no secret,
you know, she was very involved with animals. She worked
closely with the the Helen Woodward Animal since her in
southern California for like twenty years, and to make sure
(58:29):
Reggie was taken care of, she left five million dollars
to him and and you know, some animal charities to
make sure he had the best of care and you
know was taking was you know, just I love that.
That's such an awesome thing.
Speaker 3 (58:45):
That's the best thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (58:47):
Yeah, that's and it's so her like exactly, that's that's
a Diane Keaton thing to do. He's got to be
the richest golden retriever in the history. I don't know,
but Reggie's gonna enjoy five million dollars worth of treats. Yeah,
(59:10):
steak tartar every night for Reggie. And I dig that.
I think that's cool. I read that right before we,
uh we started, and I was like, she left five
million dollars is some guy named Reggie? And then I
had to click on it. I was like, oh, now,
I understand, Yeah, that's I mean, there's animal lovers and
(59:31):
then there's animal lovers, and Diane Keaton one in a million.
Speaker 7 (59:36):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (59:37):
Well, Amber, I think that's a great place, uh to
sign off on this one. I want to thank you
for uh interrupting my work day the other day, because
the truth be told, you know, I just I'm at
work and you know, I get this random text and
you're like, Diane Keaton, tell me we're gonna do an episode.
(59:57):
And I was like, and my response was why why
the hell would It's right's scary movies. Why are we
doing why? And then you know, I didn't hear from
you for a minute, and I was like, what is
what's going on? Did something happened to Diane Keaton? And
then I, you know, I found out and I was like, well.
Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
And I fell back because your schedule is so different
from mine that I didn't realize at work. So I'm like, oh,
sure that's right on social media on our lunch break,
and yeah, I knew all about it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Yeah, So I was I was glad that you you
reached out, and I was glad that we did this because, uh,
you know, I hate to say it, we've done We've
done too many of these this season.
Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
It's kind of you know, like I'd like to pump
the brakes on these.
Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Types of to not do anymore. Let's let's make it six.
Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Yeah, I don't me wrong. I love doing our top
ten favorite performances.
Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
But I like honoring these legends in this way.
Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Like yeah, but I'd like to do it while they're
still with us. We'll try, we'll try, We'll try to
season well. Listeners, what do you think of Diane Keaton
and her her many amazing performances?
Speaker 10 (01:01:09):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Did? But did Amber? Did Amber's list? Did? Did she
have all of your picks? Are we missing some Amber?
I know there's some big movies out there that we
didn't talk about, like Red's Reds with Warren Batty. Yes,
which I that's on my list. I've always wanted to
see that.
Speaker 10 (01:01:23):
So uh but.
Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Listeners, Uh, let us know, like tell us, like what
which which Diane Keaton movies are we missing from this list?
You can reach out to us on social media. You'll
find us on Facebook, Instagram, and x. You can email
us at a Film by Podcast at gmail dot com.
And you can always find us and check us out
(01:01:45):
at www dot a film by podcast dot com. And
when you do, if there's a chance we we we
call you out on a future episode. We'll definitely send
you some A film by Swag all right, Amber, Uh,
we'll get back to our regularly scheduled programming in just
(01:02:06):
a few days Monday. If I'm not mistaken, you and
I are back again talking about one of your favorite directors, Guermo.
Get it, mel del Toro. We're gonna do another another
episode for this incredible director. You want to, you want
tell him which what movie we're doing.
Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
We are doing The Devil's Backbone.
Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
The Devil's Back whone I one of his first one
of us is Free. I haven't seen this one, but
I love del Toro. I'd be surprised if I didn't
absolutely love it.
Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Interested to hear what you think because i've seen it
at But.
Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Yeah, Well, for all of you listening along us on
social media, subscribing to our Patreon, we thank you and
we'll see him Monday.
Speaker 7 (01:02:58):
To walk it.
Speaker 9 (01:03:01):
Seems like.
Speaker 7 (01:03:08):
Oh, having you to walk with and it's still a strip.
Just to hand my
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