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

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  Speaker 1: All right, well, we had the passing of two stars. One,
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  Speaker 1: just an absolute legend, Dolly Parton and Tim Curry is
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  Speaker 1: what we're talking about. And as we talk to Joe Neumeier,
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  Speaker 1: film journalist and WOR movie minute host, Joe, we want
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  Speaker 1: you to remember the two of them, but we want
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  Speaker 1: to do something a little bit different. We're going to,
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  Speaker 1: and you know what, it's a test, and it's like
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  Speaker 1: giving Einstein a test on physics. You're going to nail
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  Speaker 1: this very easily. But I'm going to play clips for
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  Speaker 1: you from Dolly Parton movies. You tell us the movie
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  Speaker 1: and then, you know, share your remembrance of her as
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  Speaker 1: you're answering the questions. You ready?
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all set.
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  Speaker 2: I got my coffee.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all set.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I got a gun out there in my purse.
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  Speaker 4: And up to now, I've been forgiving and forgetting because
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  Speaker 4: of the way I was brought up. But I'll tell
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  Speaker 4: you one thing. If you ever say another word about
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  Speaker 4: me or make another indecent proposal, I'm going to get
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  Speaker 4: that gun of mine, and I'm going to change you
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  Speaker 4: from a rooster to a hen with one shot.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think I.
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  Speaker 2: Can't do it. Go ahead. It's a great 9 to 5.
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  Speaker 2: 9 to 5, of course. She's so funny in there.
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  Speaker 2: That was her first film. So feisty and fiery. She's
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  Speaker 2: in there with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin going after
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  Speaker 2: Dabney Coleman. Um, yeah, that's nine to five, right? Am
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  Speaker 2: I right on that one?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely correct. Yeah. And she was funny. She is just, she,
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  Speaker 1: I think that showed her chops as a great actress.
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  Speaker 2: I totally agree. And I think that, you know, none
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  Speaker 2: of the other films, she only did about five films
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  Speaker 2: in total, really.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, let me play another clip before you get to
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  Speaker 1: another film. Are you ready? Here you go.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. I'm all set.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably just one of those last minute jitter things.
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  Speaker 2: No, but the wind's still on.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank goodness, because this is going in the hairdo
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  Speaker 4: hall of fame.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: It's Steel Magnolias. She's the owner of the beauty salon, right?
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  Speaker 2: That's in her house, and I think Truvy was her name,
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  Speaker 2: I think. So that is Steel Magnolias.
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  Speaker 1: That was still Magnolia, of course. I know you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get all of these. No, I'm a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a doubter here.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: We've got two more to go, right? Well, these are
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  Speaker 1: the two hardest ones.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, these are the two most difficult, but this is
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  Speaker 1: Joe Newman.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: He's been a dollar short and a day late on
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  Speaker 3: some things lately.
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  Speaker 2: Now the clutch is on here, guys. I don't know. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's try it.
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  Speaker 4: This is a treat. Nobody around here ever wants a manicure. Why,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I would even know what to charge
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  Speaker 4: for a fool that is beauty.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to need one, too.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I am going to paint my front door red
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  Speaker 4: and change my name to Elizabeth Arden.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, is that Best Little Whorehouse in Texas? Because
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  Speaker 2: that I haven't seen in a long time. That came
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  Speaker 2: out in 82, and she plays the madam of the
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  Speaker 2: whorehouse there with Burt Reynolds, the comedy. It's a musical comedy.
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  Speaker 2: I like it, actually. Is it Best Little Whorehouse?
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  Speaker 1: No, I apologize. We played a trick on you. That's
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  Speaker 1: Steel Magnolias again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look at that.
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  Speaker 1: You see, was I right? Was I right about this? No,
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  Speaker 1: he obviously thought it was going to be four different movies.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of changed it up on him. Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not give him a curve.
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  Speaker 2: I've only got three coffees on me. I need another
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  Speaker 2: few coffees to figure this out.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, we got another one. One more. I know you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get this.
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  Speaker 4: Listen to him cuss and shout just like on TV.
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  Speaker 4: You're just a kid playing at being a cowboy. You
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  Speaker 4: ain't never going to grow up.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-oh. A little hesitation there.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh is right. Right. I mean, that sounds like Bethlehem
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  Speaker 2: Horror House.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: When I said yes, I was trying to help you.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: In baseball, you would be the Triple Crown winner. 75%
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  Speaker 3: you got right. But let me tell you something, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: You're supposed to be number one, second, and none. You
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  Speaker 3: should have gotten all four.
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  Speaker 2: I should have gotten all four.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: And I should have actually. Well, I have to say,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't. seen any of them since they came out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they just were not my rewatch thing. I
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  Speaker 2: should have gotten them. But I will say, of the
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  Speaker 2: five films that she made, really, I mean, those are
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  Speaker 2: all good ones. I like Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,
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  Speaker 2: Charles Durning's Oscar-nominated for it, Burt Reynolds, a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: But Rhinestone gets a lot of guff, because it was
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  Speaker 2: the movie that Stallone sang in, and it was a
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  Speaker 2: flop when it came out. But I think it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: She's funny in it. She's a country music star who
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  Speaker 2: says she can make anybody a singer, and he's a
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  Speaker 2: cabbie that she tries to do. It's goofy, but it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's one that you guys may know. It's
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  Speaker 2: called Straight Talk. It's a comedy drama. It's more of
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  Speaker 2: a comedy from, like, 92. But she falls into having
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  Speaker 2: a job as a radio host. And so it's a
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  Speaker 2: great radio movie in a lot of ways. Her and
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  Speaker 2: James Woods. So both of those are ones that people forget.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm a fan of 9 to 5 and Best
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  Speaker 2: Little Whorehouse in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you've come back. That's a major comeback from
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  Speaker 1: where you were. Yeah, he's amazing. Let me give you
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  Speaker 1: a real easy one now. You ready?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, hold that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a sweet transvestite. From Transsexual Transylvania. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: That's, of course, Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's the one
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  Speaker 2: that you guys, I'm sure, are singing every morning when
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  Speaker 2: you guys start the show. The thing I think about
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  Speaker 2: with Tim Curry, and that's, of course, Rocky Horror Picture Show,
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  Speaker 2: is that he makes that character who he just described
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  Speaker 2: himself in there as a sweet transsexual from Transvestite. Transsexual Transylvania.
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  Speaker 2: He makes that character, though, like slimy and and and weird,
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  Speaker 2: but also like, you know, kind of sympathetic. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a comedy. It's a goofy thing. But Tim Curry had
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  Speaker 2: this ability to sort of bring the biggest characters to
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  Speaker 2: life in the most sympathetic ways and kind of weird ways.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that he played the devil in Legend
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  Speaker 2: and he's great in it. He played under all this makeup.
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  Speaker 2: He's great. And he plays the clown it in the
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  Speaker 2: original TV movie of that. um he played he was
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  Speaker 2: in muppet treasure island as uh as long john silver
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  Speaker 2: but i love him in clue and in annie he's
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  Speaker 2: great in both of those movies too he thought he
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  Speaker 2: was such a funny guy and on broadway and spam
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  Speaker 2: a lot uh such a crazy.
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  Speaker 5: British great actor funny you know what i learned in
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  Speaker 5: his passing i had no idea about this yeah that
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  Speaker 5: our own uh larry mentee had gone to rocky horror
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  Speaker 5: about four or five times in his life, I said, whoa, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Would you please explain to him, because he thinks for
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  Speaker 1: some reason that everybody that went there must be a transvestite,
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  Speaker 1: that that was a cultural experience?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Curtis, it was a cultural experience. It was something
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  Speaker 2: that you go to in college or even not in college.
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  Speaker 2: It's a midnight thing at the Bleeker Cinema in New York.
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  Speaker 2: It played at midnight like every Friday and Saturday. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to go and dress up. It also was
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  Speaker 2: part of the, I will say it was a flop
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  Speaker 2: when it came out in 75, when a few years
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  Speaker 2: later it became this cult thing. People went to have
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  Speaker 2: the experience of people throwing things at the screen, people joking,
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  Speaker 2: people singing along. You didn't have to dress up. The
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  Speaker 2: two or three times I went when I was young,
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  Speaker 2: I never dressed up. But you'd go to kind of
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  Speaker 2: have this communal experience. And that's movie-going, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's not every movie you're throwing things at the screen,
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  Speaker 2: even if it's a bad movie, like The Dog Stars,
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  Speaker 2: which is out this weekend. You might want to throw
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  Speaker 2: something at The Dog Stars. But the experience of Rocky
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  Speaker 2: Horror was to really have that communal experience. Some of
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  Speaker 2: the music is really fun. Time Warp is obviously great,
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  Speaker 2: and Meat Loaf's got a great song in there. But
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  Speaker 2: it's about the experience of going there with people and
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  Speaker 2: being raucous and crazy and kooky and kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a show in the audience as well.
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  Speaker 1: Good cover for Larry.
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  Speaker 3: You're a good colleague here at the movie reviewer show.
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  Speaker 1: Good cover for Larry going how many times? Sorry, four
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  Speaker 1: or five times. Four or five, yeah. Yeah, four or five.
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  Speaker 1: Always had fun, was always with a group.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Tells me a lot about you, Larry. What, that I
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  Speaker 1: had friends? No, Joe, good cover. Good cover, buddy. We
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you. Same time, same place next week, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds great, guys. Thanks.