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It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with

Keith Phipps, Scott Tobias, and... Jenna Beepkowski, coming back in front of the mic from her usual

producer position. This week, we're talking about Joel and Ethan Cohen's movies Bart and Fink and

Hale Caesar, two films released 25 years apart, but both about the hapless

wrecks of humanity working for the fictional capital pitchers at the height of the studio system.

They're very different movies. Barton Fink is about a struggling screenwriter, played by John

Torturo, alone in a ratty hotel trying to bang out the script to a Wallace-Bury wrestling

pitcher he has no connection to. Hail Caesar is inspired by real-life studio fixer Eddie Manix, who handled scandals for MGM,

and it stars Josh Brolin as a character named Eddie Manix, who's trying to manage

capital pitchers' constant crises and stable of unruly stars, while pondering over an

opportunity to walk away and take a lucrative job at Lockheed Aviation.

But both films are

fundamentally about the trouble of making art, whether that trouble comes from external sources

or internal ones, and both of them are right-what-you-know stories about the industry the

Coens have lived in for decades. On this half of the podcast, we're going to dig into what connects

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