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

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  Speaker 1: First, congratulations to Denise Maurer in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: You just won a pair of tickets to see a
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  Speaker 1: great double bill, Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls,
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  Speaker 1: March 13th at the Prudential Center. Tickets on sale at
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  Speaker 1: Ticketmaster.com Monday at 825. Tickets to see Tommy James and
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  Speaker 1: the Shondells next week.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get to Joe Neumeier, film journalist and WOR
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  Speaker 2: movie minute host. Hey, Joe, listen, I know you want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the movies coming out this weekend, but
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  Speaker 2: I just want to talk about a movie. It's a
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  Speaker 2: documentary that you would have already talked about before I know,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't know it would be this big. Number
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  Speaker 2: one at the box office again. You can see everything. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I know there's been bigger documentaries. It's made 64 million
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  Speaker 2: so far, and there's been bigger ones, Michael Jackson just recently.
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  Speaker 2: But the fact that it's made 64 million and it
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  Speaker 2: calls itself an American experimental meta-documentary, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Even know what that means. Is it really that good?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, I don't think so, but I think it's interesting.
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  Speaker 5: I think it is, it has become something, and this
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  Speaker 5: is like the young people kind of go into obsession
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  Speaker 5: and back rooms and things like that. People, especially like
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  Speaker 5: Gen Z and a little older are really going to
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  Speaker 5: this film. And I think they don't even, they don't
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  Speaker 5: need to know anything about what it's about. So briefly,
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  Speaker 5: it's about, remember Elizabeth Holmes? Sure. She was the woman
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  Speaker 5: who made up the thing about the blood test thing
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  Speaker 5: called Thanatos or something, which- Sounds like an Avengers villain.
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  Speaker 4: Like, sounds like Thanos. So, but it was a made
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  Speaker 4: up thing.
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  Speaker 5: So this guy, Nathan Fielder, who's, who's sort of a,
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  Speaker 5: like a, a guy who does like, I've never seen
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  Speaker 5: his stuff on TV, but people like him. He's sort
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  Speaker 5: of like vaguely a documentarian comedian guy. Moved into her
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  Speaker 5: house with her and her boyfriend for like the month
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  Speaker 5: before she went to prison. And it has become this
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  Speaker 5: sort of phenomenon. It's three hours long. At the screening
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  Speaker 5: that I saw, I saw it at a regular screening
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  Speaker 5: with people. People applauded at the end. They were really
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  Speaker 5: kind of laughing with it. It's sort of a documentary
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  Speaker 5: of discomfort. and she's really strange in the movie, and
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  Speaker 5: then it takes a turn. I don't want to ruin
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  Speaker 5: it for anybody, but it takes an interesting turn when
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  Speaker 5: the actress Amanda Seyfried shows up, who had played Elizabeth
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  Speaker 5: Holmes in a Hulu thing. So it's really kind of
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  Speaker 5: shocking to me. It kind of makes me feel good
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  Speaker 5: about audiences that they're going to see something really interesting
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  Speaker 5: like this, but I really don't know why this has
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  Speaker 5: caught on. I think it's about wanting to sort of
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  Speaker 5: see somebody like a bug under the glass, kind of
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  Speaker 5: be a little bit sort of uncomfortable in these strange situations.
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  Speaker 5: It is funny at points, but it is a very
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  Speaker 5: interesting and strange film. To even call it a documentary
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  Speaker 5: is a little bit off. It is a documentary, but
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  Speaker 5: it's not like any documentary you've ever seen before. It's
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  Speaker 5: a very interesting thing that it's become... It's going to
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  Speaker 5: win Oscars. Maybe even for Amanda Seyfried, which is very
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  Speaker 5: strange indeed to win an Oscar for playing somebody in
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  Speaker 5: a documentary.
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  Speaker 4: It's a very strange thing.
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  Speaker 5: But A strange phenomenon that I think is just sort
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  Speaker 5: of interesting about people wanting to go back to the
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  Speaker 5: movies this year, right? People are going back for even this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so you didn't like it yourself, huh, Joe?
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was okay. I thought it was okay. Look,
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  Speaker 4: it's no Spider-Man brand new day. Let's put it that way.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's go to your choices because it's an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to go out and see these this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Wild Horses 9.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just one. Just Wild Horse. Wild Horse 9. Guys,
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  Speaker 5: I told you last week, you're going to think Neumeier's
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  Speaker 5: had too much coffee. There are two five-star movies opening
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  Speaker 5: this week after last week's five-star movie. First one is
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  Speaker 5: called Wild Horse 9, and it's with John Malkovich and
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  Speaker 5: Sam Rockwell, and they play CIA guys in 1973, and
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  Speaker 5: Malkovich's character is sick, so he kind of wants to
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  Speaker 5: have sort of one last sort of Hang out and
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  Speaker 5: and and and kind of get his stuff together before
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  Speaker 5: before the end. And that's not ruining anything that sort of,
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  Speaker 5: you know, revealed. And it's it's the two of them
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  Speaker 5: are hanging out on Easter Island, which those big giant statues.
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  Speaker 4: But it's a it's an.
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  Speaker 5: Action movie and it's thoughtful and it's funny and it's
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  Speaker 5: made by the filmmaker who did In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths.
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  Speaker 5: And he did last he did was the Banshees of Inisharen.
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  Speaker 5: It's a really fun movie. And Malkovich could win an
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  Speaker 5: Oscar for this for best actor. He's been nominated twice before,
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  Speaker 5: most recently for In the Line of Fire back in
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  Speaker 5: the 90s. So it's a really fun movie and it's
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  Speaker 5: and it's a great hangout movie. The second one is
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  Speaker 5: I Play Rocky. Have you guys heard about this?
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  Speaker 4: No, I play Rocky.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God, it's great.
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  Speaker 5: It's a movie about the making of Rocky in the
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  Speaker 5: early 70s. It's about Stallone, who was not on board
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  Speaker 5: really as anything. He's not an executive producer, but this
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  Speaker 5: kid named Anthony Ippolito, who oddly enough played the young
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  Speaker 5: Al Pacino in a TV thing about the making.
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  Speaker 4: Of The Godfather, is fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: He plays the young Stallone who's working hard as an actor.
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  Speaker 5: He's doing a porn thing at once. He's living on
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  Speaker 5: the street, and he decides to write a movie called Rocky.
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  Speaker 5: And he gets it into the hands of some Hollywood producers.
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  Speaker 5: And it's about how they will make the movie, but
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  Speaker 5: not with him. And he is insisting that he plays Rocky.
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  Speaker 5: And he knows it's his shot. It echoes the actual
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  Speaker 5: story of Rocky, of that great Oscar-winning movie of 1976.
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  Speaker 5: And it's really terrific. Matt Dillon plays his dad. It's
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  Speaker 5: a movie about the making of movies, but it's so
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  Speaker 5: entertaining and it's terrific. And it does echo the... You
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  Speaker 5: see him, like, filming this, running up the steps in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 5: You see all the problems they had trying to get
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  Speaker 5: this thing going. They said if you go one day
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  Speaker 5: over budget or one day over schedule or a dollar
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  Speaker 5: over budget, we're replacing you with Ryan O'Neill or somebody else.
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  Speaker 4: And Stallone, like... It's fantastic. It's so good. It's so funny.
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  Speaker 5: And so Stallone was like, who was like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: eating scraps. He was really, you know, he was a
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  Speaker 5: nothing to actor. And now of course, look who he is.
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  Speaker 5: He's a, he's a superstar, but this is about that
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  Speaker 5: moment in time.
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  Speaker 4: Five stars. I'm all in.
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  Speaker 3: I'm all in.
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  Speaker 2: I did it. I, the first documentary I ever did
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  Speaker 2: was a short documentary on the making of Rocky when
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  Speaker 2: I was at access Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So all these stories you just told, I know, but man, I,
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  Speaker 2: I am completely all in. How about James Bond? Is
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  Speaker 2: there going to be another James Bond movie and who's
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  Speaker 2: going to play him?
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  Speaker 5: There is, and it looks like, I mean, it has
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  Speaker 5: not been confirmed yet. It looks like it's going to
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  Speaker 5: be this actor named Callum Turner who's got, like, huge ears,
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  Speaker 5: and he's 36 years old.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he'll be fine.
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  Speaker 5: He's never impressed me in any of the things he did.
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  Speaker 5: He did a movie called One Night Only earlier this year.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it has not been officially announced. My problem
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  Speaker 5: with all these guys that they've been kind of floating
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  Speaker 5: is that they don't feel like Sean Connery or even
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  Speaker 5: George Lazenby. Like, they don't feel like guys who can
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  Speaker 5: wear a tuxedo. They feel like kids. um and i
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  Speaker 5: think that's maybe something about the acting class of of
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  Speaker 5: you know 2026 i just think that that this guy
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  Speaker 5: callum turner is probably just the least of their of
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  Speaker 5: their offers i think the other guys were a little
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  Speaker 5: bit better jack loudon was one of them the guy
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  Speaker 5: from slow horses but if you're going who callum turner
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  Speaker 5: who i mean that's probably to their advantage but i don't.
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  Speaker 1: Think he's a he's a good choice oh so large
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  Speaker 1: ears huh large ears you know what that means large
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  Speaker 1: ears huh not Come on, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me. I don't know, Curtis. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Large, large.
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  Speaker 5: Large ears.
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  Speaker 3: Money pennies?
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  Speaker 4: Large money pennies?
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  Speaker 1: Large. I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Know. I died.
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  Speaker 3: No, below the navel, pal. Joe, Joe, no, just thinking that.
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  Speaker 3: Like Milton Berle? Exactly. Hey, remember, Milton was the most
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  Speaker 3: famous drag queen of all. True, speaking of drag queens. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: Joe Neumeier, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: So five-star movies, we're going to hold him to the
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  Speaker 1: test as to whether they actually prove at the box
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  Speaker 1: office to have earned that status.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the Oscar movies never do. But fingers crossed on
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  Speaker 4: I Play Rocky, guys. Go and see it, honestly.
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  Speaker 5: It's the best thing you can do for yourself this
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  Speaker 5: week is I Play Rocky.
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  Speaker 1: 100%.
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  Speaker 4: Five stars. I'd give it 10 if I could. It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in.
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  Speaker 4: I'm in. I'm going to see it this weekend. I'll
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  Speaker 4: talk to you about it next week. Thanks a lot, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds great, guys.