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Joe Neumaier, WOR Movie Minute host Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: I don't know, my, Joe Neumeier, movie guy, I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen this in my life in New York City. Community
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  Speaker 1: rallies to save the Kips Bay Movie Theater, which is
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  Speaker 1: right by Bellevue and NYU. It's 15 small chop shop theaters,
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  Speaker 1: nothing special about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like a landmark theater. What is this, Joe?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, some have said they've never seen a bigger
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  Speaker 1: reaction to any local issue.
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  Speaker 3: I support this 100%. I think this is one of
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  Speaker 3: those things about living in New York that you sort
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  Speaker 3: of forget about, like the livability aspect. I actually used
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  Speaker 3: to live right near there. I went to that movie
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  Speaker 3: theater a lot at Kips Bay. I used to live
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  Speaker 3: on Lexington Avenue in like 28th Street. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing really around there movie-wise that if it shuts down,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you've got... If you want to walk to
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  Speaker 3: Union Square, I mean, it's sort of such a New
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  Speaker 3: York-y thing, right? But you can go to Union Square,
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  Speaker 3: which is 20 blocks and two avenues away. So pack
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  Speaker 3: a lunch and, you know, hope that your movie is
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  Speaker 3: going to be longer than your commute to there. Or
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  Speaker 3: 19th Street and Broadway or up to 42nd Street. The
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  Speaker 3: folks who live in that community and that neighborhood really
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  Speaker 3: are underserved by movie theaters, which, as we know, people from,
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  Speaker 3: look at everything that's made money from Spider-Man to The Odyssey,
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  Speaker 3: people want to go to movies and people want to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, enjoy the community feel. And for this theater
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  Speaker 3: to shut down, it leaves them with sort of nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Going uptown is even worse. It's 30 blocks up to
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  Speaker 3: like 62nd Street. So I support this. And the community there,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the folks, I guess Natalie and I
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  Speaker 3: were just talking, a lot of the folks who go
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  Speaker 3: to the hospital there, if they've got family members in
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  Speaker 3: there and they want a break, they go to the
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  Speaker 3: movie theater to relax a little bit as a chance
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  Speaker 3: to kind of get their head together. What are they
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  Speaker 3: going to do, go to the CVS now or a
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  Speaker 3: Chase ATM? I think this is a horrible thing. It
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  Speaker 3: shuts at the end of the year. I hope that
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  Speaker 3: the AMC company can somehow find it to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure the rent is extraordinary. I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 3: huge real estate footprint, but I'm with the community. Keep
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  Speaker 3: going on it. You know, fight back.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Joe, we're coming up on the 25th anniversary of 9-11,
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  Speaker 2: and I have two young boys that weren't born when
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  Speaker 2: 9-11 happened. They're 18 and 22. They've learned a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about it in schools, but I found, and I've
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  Speaker 2: talked to them about it, but I found that one
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  Speaker 2: of the ways to really get their attention and learn
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  Speaker 2: more about it is through movies. And so recently, I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you the one I showed them first. You probably
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  Speaker 2: have a great list of movies about this, but I
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  Speaker 2: showed them United 93. Yeah. And I thought that was
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  Speaker 2: just a wonderful movie. By the way, if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to watch that movie, I'm telling people that are listening now,
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  Speaker 2: Don't watch Flight 93. There's a movie out called that.
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  Speaker 2: Not that good. But United 93 is wonderful. Don't you agree?
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely agree. In fact, I think it's one of
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  Speaker 3: the best films about 9-11. That director, Paul Greengrass, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, has a movie out this weekend called The Uprising.
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  Speaker 3: But United 93 is the one to watch. It is
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  Speaker 3: a tough watch. It's tough, but it helps. the kids
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  Speaker 3: or folks who, you know, especially like you mentioned, your
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  Speaker 3: kids weren't born at that time to really understand the
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  Speaker 3: drama and the heroism that went on on that flight.
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  Speaker 3: Another good one is World Trade Center, also a tough
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  Speaker 3: watch with Nicolas Cage as a firefighter who's trapped in
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  Speaker 3: the rubble. It has a, you know, he's saved at
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  Speaker 3: the end of that movie, but it is a That's
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  Speaker 3: also really dramatic. Oliver Stone directed it. There's also Extremely
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  Speaker 3: Loud and Incredibly Close.
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  Speaker 2: I saw this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't successful at the time. Tom Hanks is
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  Speaker 3: a father who dies in the attacks, and his son,
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  Speaker 3: who has some issues, is trying to reconnect with the
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  Speaker 3: idea of him through these sort of treasure hunts that
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  Speaker 3: they went on. That's also a really good movie for kids.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's even one called, it's a musical called
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  Speaker 3: Come From Away. And it was on Broadway. They made
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  Speaker 3: a film of it on Apple TV. It's about the
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  Speaker 3: town in Newfoundland that like 38 flights landed in, and
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  Speaker 3: they kind of welcomed folks in the days after. That's
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  Speaker 3: also a really good film to show kids to sort
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  Speaker 3: of have the understanding. You kind of think it's not
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  Speaker 3: about 9-11, but it is. And then one last one
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  Speaker 3: that I want to throw out there, just because it's
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  Speaker 3: also an early Adam Sandler performance doing a series, and
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  Speaker 3: it's called Rain Over Me. And it's a really good film,
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  Speaker 3: where Sandler is a guy who lost his family on 9-11,
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  Speaker 3: and he reconnects with a friend, and he has sort
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  Speaker 3: of just kind of fallen apart in the years since.
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  Speaker 3: And he and his friend sort of kind of get
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  Speaker 3: him back going into life. And it's a dramatic performance
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  Speaker 3: from Adam Sandler, but it's really good. And I would
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  Speaker 3: recommend that as well, and even for kids, because it's
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  Speaker 3: an adult movie, but it also works with the emotions
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Would you consider Zero Dark Thirty a 9-11 movie?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I wouldn't, to be honest. I know a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people throw it in there. It's obviously about
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  Speaker 3: the hunt for bin Laden. I kind of think it
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  Speaker 3: obviously uses that as the launching off point, but I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's more sort of a CIA block apps,
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  Speaker 3: you know, special forces thing.
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  Speaker 2: But it's so good.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: It's so good.
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  Speaker 3: It is so good, though. Yes, it is so good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, so is the Hurt Locker in its own way, too, right?
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  Speaker 3: In which one best picture. But, right, Zero Dark Thirty
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  Speaker 3: is really good, but I don't know if it just
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  Speaker 3: uses it as a launching off point. And especially for
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  Speaker 3: kids or for folks who maybe want to have something
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more kind of down to earth, a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more kind of understanding the grasping the emotions
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  Speaker 3: of that day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But the United 93 is the one that... Still, it's
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  Speaker 3: so impactful, so impactful and really immediate. You really feel
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  Speaker 3: like you're on that plane.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks a lot, Joe Neumeier. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a tough week, but you're right. These movies will live
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  Speaker 2: on and will explain 9-11 to a whole generation to come.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much.