362 – Used People

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

We love talking forgotten awardsy films here on This Had Oscar Buzz and this week’s episode is a doozy. In 1992, Todd Graff’s off-Broadway play The Grandma Plays was adapted into the film Used People with both a high Oscar and theatre pedigree. The Beeban Kidron film starred Shirley MacLaine as a new widow finding love (in Oscar nominee Marcello Mastroianni, no less) and repairing her strained relationship with her daughters. With brief turns from the Jessica Tandy and Sylvia Sidney, the film didn’t get much further than stray nominations for MacLaine and Mastroianni.

This episode, we make up for our forgotten Shirley MacLaine six Timers quiz. We also talk about why it might be our Most Best Actress movie ever, Marcia Gay Harden dressed up in Barbra Streisand’s Oscar win, and how mean movies are to Kathy Bates.

Topics also include the 1992 Golden Globes, “Queen of the Night,” and Camp.

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:12.8	No, the right house.
0:13.6	I didn't get that.
0:14.7	We want to talk to Marilyn Hack, Maryland Hacks and French. I'm from Canada water.
0:27.6	Dick, Dick Pooh.
0:31.6	Dick Pooh.
0:47.3	A trip to Bendels and an hour at the beauty parlor, you would be surprised how fast a friend-friend could become. I'll bring him home to meet your mother friend.
0:51.3	Not moving to Florida.
0:54.8	Neither is the mother.
0:55.9	Mother's in the room.
0:57.3	She can make her own decisions.
0:59.7	I'm not moving to Florida.
1:04.1	Oh, class, my sister.
1:07.0	She brought a date to her own father's funeral.
1:13.8	Hello, and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast calling it White Jack.
1:24.0	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.
1:29.6	The Oscar hopes died and we're here to perform the autopsy. I'm your host, Chris Fyle,
1:34.8	and I'm here, as always, with my sister dressing up as a best actress winner from when she won her Oscar, Joe Reed. Okay, we need to talk about this right off the bat. All this time, there has
1:42.6	existed a film where Marcia Gay Hardin dresses up as Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Streisand in her Oscar-winning Oscar-acceptance outfit.
1:58.3	And it should be said, looking fab.
2:00.2	Uh, Faye Dunn away as Bonnie Parker and... acceptance outfit. And it should be said, looking fab.
2:06.7	Faye Dunn away as Bonnie Parker and Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson.
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