Oh, wrong house. No, the right house. I didn't get nominated.

I'm going to talk to Mill and heck.

I'm from Canada waters. Did you ever hear about Steve Rubel?

The guy was a genius.

He took this club in New York

and turned it into the center of the universe.

He comped the designers, the Tallahifers in the record people

and the models, actors, and rock stars followed right behind them.

The key to the magic was this.

Steve controlled the door.

Right over there.

It didn't matter if you were a plumber or a supermodel. the Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast hanging by a moment here with you, Susan Sarandon.

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,

but for some reason or another it all went wrong.

The Oscar hopes died and we are here to perform the autopsy.

I am your host, Chris File, and I'm here as always with my favorite disco diva and penicillin mule Joe Reed.

If you could read my mind, Chris, while I was watching the film 54, what a tale my thoughts would tell.

Oh my goodness, I'm sure, we'll get into it, but we should say off the top and I didn't even think about my opening joke until just now how maybe

that wouldn't have made sense to you though I'm sure it's still there we watched different versions of this movie. We did and I don't think I realized...

I'd never seen and I assume you have because you watched the director's cut. I saw the

theatrical but like a long time ago and yes I watched the director's cut and I don't think I realized until I started like reading up on all of the stuff that like not only it is a different movie yeah not only does the

director's cut ad like 30 to 45 minutes worth of new footage it also took out all of the

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