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

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  Speaker 1: Let's bring in Joe Neumeier, film journalist, of course, WOR
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  Speaker 1: movie minted host. And I'll tell you what, Joe, be
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  Speaker 1: still my heart. I'm looking here. You have a movie
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  Speaker 1: that you're calling a really powerful five star war film.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: Is that going to make the poster? Have you made
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  Speaker 1: a poster.
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  Speaker 2: For a movie? I actually have.
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  Speaker 3: I made the ad for the fourth Indiana Jones movie,
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  Speaker 3: and I think something else I did.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, no, this is incredible.
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  Speaker 3: This movie is called The Mosquito Bowl, Larry, and I
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  Speaker 3: know how you love Saving Private Ryan, so I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to lead off with this and say that it's sort
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  Speaker 3: of It matches Saving Private Ryan in terms of intensity.
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  Speaker 3: It's in theaters now. It's going to be on Netflix
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  Speaker 3: in a month. And it's directed by Peter Berg, who
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  Speaker 3: made Friday Night Lights and Lone Survivor. And it's based
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  Speaker 3: on a true story. It's about these four college guys
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  Speaker 3: in World War II who, during their experience— and we see
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  Speaker 3: them a little bit before the war— during their experience
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  Speaker 3: in the Pacific Theater in World War II.
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  Speaker 2: It is intense. The actual Mosquito Bowl is.
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  Speaker 3: A minor part of it, which was a little kind
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  Speaker 3: of football game that was put together on Okinawa because
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  Speaker 3: somebody had recognized, some higher-up had recognized these four college
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  Speaker 3: football guys and said, let's get this game together. But
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  Speaker 3: it's really about their experiences and about really retelling. It's
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  Speaker 3: got respect for the men and women, for the men
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  Speaker 3: who fought in World War II, but it is for
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  Speaker 3: the men and women who serve, but it also is about.
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  Speaker 2: Really the intensity of what war is. And it, and
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  Speaker 2: it really is, it's an intense experience.
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  Speaker 3: The sound in the theaters is incredible, but this movie
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  Speaker 3: really is powerful.
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  Speaker 2: It's terrifying. It's, it's moving.
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  Speaker 3: It reminds me a little of Gallipoli, this great movie
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  Speaker 3: from the early eighties about, uh, Australians, it is one
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  Speaker 3: of the best war films I've ever seen, one of
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  Speaker 3: the most moving war films I've ever seen. Performances are great.
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  Speaker 3: Jack Nicholson's son, Ray Nicholson, is in there. He's terrific.
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  Speaker 3: You just have to go in and be prepared, though,
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  Speaker 3: because it starts off a little slow, but once it
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  Speaker 3: gets into the war scenes, it's like nothing I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: And we've got a couple of good movies coming up
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  Speaker 3: over the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's Oscar time, right?
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  Speaker 3: Too much coffee. It's Oscar time, yeah. But you're going
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  Speaker 3: to say, what's up with Neumeier? He had too much coffee,
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  Speaker 3: all these five-star movies.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I have no homework for you this week, Joe Neumeier.
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  Speaker 3: But I've got homework for you, which will involve Patrick Stewart, though, Curtis.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to hear what you had to say.
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  Speaker 2: So no homework, but.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's exactly what I wanted to ask you, because
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  Speaker 4: what an iconic thespian. You know, we've seen him in
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  Speaker 4: so many different forms. And I know you've interviewed him.
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  Speaker 4: You knew him personally, so if you could share some
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  Speaker 4: of that with us upon his passing.
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  Speaker 3: Patrick Stewart, I was lucky enough to talk to him
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  Speaker 3: a couple of times once in the late 90s for
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  Speaker 3: a Star Trek movie, but I had this great 90-minute
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  Speaker 3: career over that. It was like two hours career conversation
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  Speaker 3: with him on stage in 2017 when Logan was out
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  Speaker 3: and we were talking. It was for SAG, the Screen
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  Speaker 3: Actors Guild, and we spent time before that just chatting.
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  Speaker 3: he was an extraordinary person. And I really just want
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  Speaker 3: to say like anybody who sort of thinks like, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: Star Trek, it's science fiction.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Like what he brought to that character of captain Picard.
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  Speaker 2: That's, we can start with that.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's so many other things he did, but
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  Speaker 3: we can start with that, where it was, he brought
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  Speaker 3: to that, to that character and that, and that franchise
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  Speaker 3: and really to all of sort of pop culture, this
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  Speaker 3: notion of a, of a, of a smart level, humane
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  Speaker 3: leader who, who was also flawed and complicated. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: people think of Star Trek and they think of William Shatner,
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  Speaker 3: and Shatner was great, of course, and is great. But
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  Speaker 3: Stewart brought something else, and he brought this level of
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  Speaker 3: humanity to that character and to that franchise. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of it is sort of, you know, people
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  Speaker 3: think like, oh, it's, you know, space guns and beaming
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  Speaker 3: up and the Starship Enterprise thing. but like the American Western,
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  Speaker 3: like science, Star Trek is just a genre. It's just
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  Speaker 3: human stories in set in a, in a certain genre. And,
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  Speaker 3: and there are episodes of that show that I think
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  Speaker 3: rank with some of the best, the best, you know,
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  Speaker 3: genre writing of, of any type. And then you add
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  Speaker 3: things like Nat and I were just talking before I
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  Speaker 3: came on.
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  Speaker 2: His theater work was extraordinary.
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  Speaker 3: He did that one man Christmas Carol that, um, that
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  Speaker 3: when I saw it in 1994, I had never experienced
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  Speaker 3: that story before. He did 30 characters all on stage.
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  Speaker 3: You would have believed that he was the size of
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  Speaker 3: the giant Ghost of Christmas Present because he was just
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  Speaker 3: sitting on a couple of boxes. And when he kind
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  Speaker 3: of comes towards the audience with his arms outstretched to say,
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  Speaker 3: God bless us all, everyone, you felt like enfolded into
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  Speaker 3: his personality he was funny he was puckish he loved
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  Speaker 3: doing comedy he was the voice of the poop emoji.
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  Speaker 1: You know i i got to talk i got to
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  Speaker 1: talk to him one time and i love what you
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  Speaker 1: said about him so i didn't know him like you
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  Speaker 1: did i just got to talk to him the one
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  Speaker 1: time but i was a little nervous because you know
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  Speaker 1: it's patrick stewart a shakespearean actor and And I got
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  Speaker 1: to talk to him, man, he was incredibly down to earth.
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  Speaker 1: He was funny. He was nice. I went away. I
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  Speaker 1: went away from that interview as a Patrick Stewart fan
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  Speaker 1: of him, the person, not just the actor.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: He was a really down to earth guy. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he was a, he came from a tough working class background, uh, in,
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  Speaker 3: in rural England. And, uh, and you kind of felt that.
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  Speaker 3: And yet you also felt this sense of, of somebody
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  Speaker 3: who loved people. Like he loved stories. He loved people. And,
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  Speaker 3: and when he did many of the X-Men movies and
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  Speaker 3: professor Xavier, he's going to be seen this December in
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  Speaker 3: the Avengers movie doomsday. Uh, that's going to be his,
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  Speaker 3: his final performance. He did a, a small bit as,
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  Speaker 3: as professor Xavier, like that, like his performance in Logan
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  Speaker 3: is terrific. You really felt like he was somebody who
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  Speaker 3: was in touch with what people were about and, and
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  Speaker 3: he loved doing what he did. And, uh, and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you just, every experience and, and he did Moby Dick
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  Speaker 3: on TV, a Christmas Carol on TV. Those are great
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  Speaker 3: ones to watch, dig them up, uh, on, on Amazon prime.
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  Speaker 2: They're there.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, real quick, such a great human real quick.
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  Speaker 1: We're just running out of time, but real quick, what
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  Speaker 1: is your homework for Curtis?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my homework for Curtis is actually, if he's going
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  Speaker 3: to be watching anything for Halloween this weekend, to watch
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  Speaker 3: the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers from 1978,
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  Speaker 3: which I put up there as one of my great
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  Speaker 3: horror films, one of my favorite movies to watch at Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know what Curtis has got scheduled for
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  Speaker 3: Halloween weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely. My wife loves all kinds of horror movies. She'll
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  Speaker 4: binge watch all week. This is her favorite holiday, Halloween.
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  Speaker 4: So you leave in good standing with me here, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, great.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times you have to give your verbal
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  Speaker 1: beat down. But anyway.
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  Speaker 2: At this time, all right. In honor of Patrick Stewart. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Make it so. Exactly. Oh, he was so good.
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  Speaker 1: And that was a great tribute.
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  Speaker 2: That was a great tribute.
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  Speaker 1: And you also, Larry.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, up next, we'll have results from the world's
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  Speaker 4: largest Halloween parade in Greenwich Village, which I participate in
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  Speaker 4: every year with the Guardian Angels. And of course, The
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  Speaker 4: results of Marathon Day that 710WOR with Larry, Natalie, Natalie Migliore,
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  Speaker 4: and the whole staff is involved in up next.