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

Transcript

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

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, right on time, Joe Neumeier and our movie guy. Joe,
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: you got to do me a solid. Every day I'm
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: scrolling and I see Hopalong Cassidy, Michael Douglas going from
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: one interview to another interview for his memoirs. One hell
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: of a ride. And what I can tell from the snippets...
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: I would not want to be Catherine Zeta-Jones or his kids.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: This guy, it's just one sexual liaison after another sexual liaison.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Then somebody asks him, well, you know, you had throat
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: cancer and you said it was because of you know what?
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: And he went crazy. it's sort of like you open up.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: That pandora's box guy then you might as well just
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: deal with everything i i.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: Feel like i i need to take a hot shower
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: after dealing.
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: With this well that's certainly the case with all these
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: guys i agree with you who write these sort of
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: tell all of these memoirs it seems like he he
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: called i mean from what i've read he has called
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: uh previous girlfriends previous women that he was with and
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: confirmed that it was okay that he used their names
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: or something in the book um you know the big
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: one of course that people are talking about is that
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: uh he and Kathleen Turner during the filming of Romancing
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: the Stone which is still really in such a fun
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: movie right and and they're both great in it and
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: she's gorgeous in it but she was sort of I
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: think her response was like after 45 years why do
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: you think anybody would care was uh was I think
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: her her response to him um yeah you know I
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: I will say this though about Michael Douglas I mean
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: that was always sort of part of his His image,
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: and I think that for him, he's kind of leaning
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: into it, but I agree. It does make you want to,
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: you know, kind of take a shower or throw the
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: book across the room and say, you know what, that's enough.
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: You know, some things can remain secret. That's okay at
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: 82 years old, Michael. Keep some things to yourself.
• 1:48
  Speaker 4: Good idea. That's great advice.
• 1:51
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about the movies coming out because I loved, loved,
• 1:54
  Speaker 5: loved Social Network, the beginning of Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg
• 1:57
  Speaker 5: when he was in college starting it. I never, ever
• 2:01
  Speaker 5: in a million years thought there'd be a sequel to that.
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: Right. How do you do that in some way? Because
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: the thing that people have been saying, Larry, which is
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: sort of true, which is that we're sort of living
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: in that, in the sequel to the social network, right?
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: Every day we're dealing with new things, and there's actually...
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: There's a film coming out called Artificial that I think
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: kind of deals with that, too. It kind of deals
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: with Sam Altman and Anthropic, and that's coming out later
• 2:25
  Speaker 3: in the year. We'll be talking about it. But I'm
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: giving this film a solid three stars. It's written and
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: directed by Aaron Sorkin, who won an Oscar for his
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: screenplay for Social Network. And it does a lot of
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: the same things really well, which is it sort of
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: kind of figures out why we're sort of living in
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: this thing. Like, you know, in the Social Network, it was,
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: you know, why did this kid, Mark Zuckerberg... create this website,
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: and it turns out to be kind of for pretty
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: creepy reasons. This one sort of says, how are we
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: in this situation that we're in now where there's so
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: much disinformation, there's so many things kind of going, and
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: you think like Facebook, oh, and now it's called Meta.
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: You think, oh, Facebook is just about people connecting up
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: with their high school pals. It's not that. And the
• 3:07
  Speaker 3: movie sort of underscores that. And it also does something
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: really interesting that I wasn't anticipating. It kind of turns,
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: it's kind of split into two sections. One is a
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: reporter who's talking to a whistleblower about the way that
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: the algorithms work. And that part is really pretty good.
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: And it's kind of like a 70s thriller. It's a
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: little like All the President's Men or something. So it's
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: got this sort of 70s media thriller thing going on.
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: Then the other half of it is as Zuckerberg, who's
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: now played by Jeremy Strong from Succession, as he's preparing
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: to kind of give some testimony to Congress. And he
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: comes off really robotic and scary. And while that's also
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: kind of an interesting part of the movie, it's sort
• 3:46
  Speaker 3: of not telling us anything we don't know.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: billboard is really great and they're actually a sort of
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: one of the as a uh... kind of analyst that uh...
• 3:53
  Speaker 3: counselor comes in the kind of given the business advice
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: of the previous uh... previous employee so i'm giving it
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: three stars it's interesting it's not it is not the
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: social network though it doesn't have that that really kind
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: of propulsive crazy kind of energy that that movie had
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: a great score great performances Everyone's really good in the movie.
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: It's just a little bit of like, you know, okay,
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: now what? That we're kind of dealing with. So three
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: stars for The Social Reckoning. Good, but not great.
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: Now, Jill Neumeier, she's one of our own from Brooklyn
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: and Hathaway. She had taken a bit of a hiatus.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: You know, she wasn't doing films. I wonder what happened.
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: This year, five releases in one year? How does that happen?
• 4:33
  Speaker 4: And pregnant?
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: Five in one year?
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: Five in one year. Well, sometimes, you know, you kind
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: of film things maybe like a year and a half ago,
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: and then it happens to come out in the same week.
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: But I think maybe in her head, people have said, like,
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: maybe she knew she was going to be taking a
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: break off to have another kid. And so she wanted
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: to get as many films out there as she could.
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: I will say Verity, which came out last week and
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: was number one. And I think it's actually kind of fun.
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: She doesn't do much, she kind of lays there, because
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: she's supposed to be semi-comatose in the movie. So she
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: gives a good performance, but she also kind of, a
• 5:10
  Speaker 3: lot of the movies, she's sort of relaxing. So maybe
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: that was sort of the appeal to Verity, too. Oh,
• 5:14
  Speaker 3: I can be in this movie, but I can really
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: just be in a hospital bed for the majority of
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: the movie. But the mystery is, does she really need
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: to be in the hospital bed? So maybe she saw
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: that one. That would be kind of like a little vacation.
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: I could just take a nap and get a paycheck
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: for it.
• 5:29
  Speaker 4: That's a great plan.
• 5:32
  Speaker 5: Earlier this week, a great actress died, Eva Marie Saint,
• 5:36
  Speaker 5: and I'm sure you have a lot to say about her.
• 5:39
  Speaker 3: I do you know she was really uh... a very
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: terrific interesting actors for the nineteen fifties who kind of
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: went on to not do as much but how important
• 5:47
  Speaker 3: she was to nineteen fifties movies specifically for two movies
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: of course but one of the on the waterfront which
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: you got that supporting actors for uh... she played the
• 5:56
  Speaker 3: picture of a of a dock worker who's been killed
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: and she begins a romance with marlon brando and that
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: movie is really important in so many ways And she
• 6:04
  Speaker 3: was part of that new school of actors, Brando, Montgomery Cliff,
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: Rod Steiger, and those guys. She was sort of a
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: female equivalent of that, and she was really, really terrific
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: in that movie. And then, of course, one of my
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: favorite films, North by Northwest, my favorite Hitchcock film. I
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: often have it running on my DVR or on my
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: DVD player in my office because I just feel like
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: there's nothing better than having North by Northwest on in
• 6:28
  Speaker 3: the background. She's fantastic. She's Eve Kendall in that movie.
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: She's a spy, and she kind of has to get
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: Harry Grant in and out of trouble because he doesn't
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: know she's a spy. Maybe I've just ruined it if
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: anybody's seen it.
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: If they haven't seen it by now, it's on them.
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: Don't worry about it.
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: Right, right. 68-year spoiler alert.
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: And just one update real quick.
• 6:49
  Speaker 6: They're still protesting at the Kips Bay theaters every day.
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: I've never seen this.
• 6:56
  Speaker 6: There's riots in Paris and there's demonstrations at the Kips
• 7:00
  Speaker 6: Bay movie theater right by NYU Medical Center.
• 7:05
  Speaker 3: Isn't that great, though? Like, people are saying, like, don't
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: take away this movie theater. And it's not even, like,
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: what I love about that, too, is it's not sort
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: of like this little boutique art house theater or something.
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: It's a big chain theater, but it's the only one
• 7:17
  Speaker 3: in that section of town. And people are saying, you
• 7:20
  Speaker 3: know what, we got enough CVSs, we got enough Duane Rees, whatever. Like,
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: keep that movie theater. It's so important. People with kids,
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: they can go there with their kids on Saturday afternoons.
• 7:29
  Speaker 3: I support that protest 100%. Keep going with it, right?
• 7:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, they have Joe Neumeier. You've got to come out
• 7:35
  Speaker 4: here and protest with them.
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: To the barricades, Joe!
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: To the barricades!
• 7:40
  Speaker 3: It'll be like Les Miserables, right?
• 7:44
  Speaker 4: Joe Neumeier, film journalist, WOR, movie-emitted host. Joe, have a
• 7:49
  Speaker 4: great weekend.
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys. You too.