052 – Frankie and Johnny

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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We’re going all the way back to 1991 for this week’s episode on Gary Marshall’s take on the Terrence McNally two-hander Frankie and Johnny. Here is a film that was a convergence of several Oscar narratives: Al Pacino’s lengthy overdue status, Michelle Pfeiffer’s prestige ascent, and Marshall’s follow-up to the success of Pretty Woman. The … Continue reading

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house. No, the right house. I didn't get nominated.
0:05.0	I'm going to get nominated.
0:07.0	I'm going to get that.
0:10.0	I'm from Canada waters. A cook with a hunger for life. Thy head is full of quarrel, like an egg is full of meat.
0:36.0	William Shakespeare, Romeo, and Julian.
0:39.0	Fell for a waitress.
0:40.0	I'm asking you out with me tonight on a date.
0:43.0	He just asked you out.
0:45.0	Who's lost her taste for romance.
0:47.0	I want to go out with you, that's all.
0:49.0	No.
0:50.0	And oh.
0:51.0	Uh, Frankie? Johnny?
0:54.0	Johnny?
0:55.0	Ooh, I just got goosebumps.
0:57.0	Do you know that song?
0:58.0	Frankie and Johnny!
1:00.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that keeps on trying to divorce Hank Williams scene after scene.
1:05.6	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations,
1:11.2	but for some reason or another it all went wrong.
1:13.8	The Oscar hopes died and we are here to perform the autopsy.
1:17.0	I am your host, Joe Reed.
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