#the front page

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The Front Page, Spanish lobby card, 1974

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Lee Tracy as Hildy Johnson in the 1928 Broadway production of “The Front Page.”

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The Front Page(1974)

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getting drunk with old hollywood

Libeled Lady (1936) The Front Page (1931) The Thin Man (1934) A Letter to Three Wives (1949) Some Like It Hot (1959) Boy Meets Girl (1938) I Love You Again (1940) The Old Dark House (1932) Guest Wife (1945) Humoresque (1946)

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Susan Sarandon in The Front Page (1974)

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290 - The Front Page (w/ Roxana Hadadi) (70s Spectacular - 1974)

1974 brings us to one of the final films of Billy Wilder, which also reunited a screen duo beloved by both Oscar and audiences, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Vulture writer Roxana Hadadi is back to the show to talk about The Front Page, an oft-adapted farce about newspapermen getting wrapped up in the case of an escaped convict. Most famously retold in a gender swapped version in His Girl Friday, this version stumbles to deliver the best of this director-star trio and missed Oscar's good graces despite multiple nominations in the decade for Mathau and Lemmon, including Lemmon's win the previous year.

This episode, we talk about the victory lap made by Francis Ford Coppola with The Godfather Part II and The Conversation both earning Oscar love. We also talk about the film's apoliticism was atypical of the moment, our love for Ingrid Bergman's Supporting Actress speech, and the hubbub over the acceptance speech for Best Documentary Feature Hearts and Minds.

Topics also include disaster movies becoming the splashy Hollywood product, The Godfather Part II Supporting Actor nominations, and Anderson Cooper talking about his mom hooking up with Marlon Brando.

The 1974 Academy Awards

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“I was jealous. I was sore because he could offer you the kind of life I can't give you.”

The Front Page.

- Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur -

His Girl Friday (1940).

Directed by Howard Hawks.

Cary Grant - Rosalind Russell

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The Front Page (1974) Billy Wilder

March 12th 2024

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The Front Page, Spanish lobby card, 1974

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I hate gay people so much. I haven’t been able to hear an imagine dragons song on the radio or in a shop without my brain just IMMEDIATELY being flooded with ‘Okay im imagining his dragon’. People think i just rly hate imagine dragons with the way my face reacts but i don’t im literally fighting such a personal battle against saying something fruity abt mr dragons out of nowhere because the shit gay people say online is so funny

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after literal years i finally got around to downloading a pdf of the wipers times, an unsancitioned satitical british trench magazine circulated among the troops in france from 1916-1918 after the fortuitous discovery of a printing press. i have approximately five million other things i need to read so idk when i'll be able to devote much time to it, and i gotta pick up a proper copy bc it's missing at least salient no 4 vol 2. that said? i'm genuinely laughing at what i've skimmed so far

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* You can find great things in the garbage dump! * You just gotta know how to look.

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