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Michael and Us

#479 - A Prurient Interest

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ed Harris is a senator with presidential ambitions. Diane Keaton is the love of his life, but uncomfortable in politics. And with the White House in his grasp, his campaign is about to be rattled by a very, very stupid revelation from her past. We discuss Michael Lindsay-Hogg's RUNNING MATES (1992), a movie that emerged straight from the primordial ooze of the 1992 election cycle. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0

Where the Secretary and I have a very profound difference.

0:04.0

In the last debate, I believe in her book,

0:07.0

very good book, by the way, in her book and in this last debate,

0:12.0

she talked about getting the approval or the support

0:15.0

or the mentoring of Henry Kissinger.

0:19.0

Now I find it rather amazing, because I happen to believe that Henry Kissinger. Now I find it rather amazing because I happen to believe that Henry

0:24.2

Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country.

0:31.4

I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger. And in

0:40.3

fact, Kissinger's actions in Cambodia, when the United States bombed that country overthrew

0:47.3

Prince Ciener, created the instability for Paul Pot and the Khmer Rouge to come in, who then

0:53.3

butched some three million innocent people,

0:57.4

one of the worst genocides in the history of the world. So count me in as somebody who will not be

1:03.8

listening to Henry Kissinger. Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.

1:09.8

Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.

1:11.8

Well, a sad occasion. We're pouring one out for a legend.

1:15.6

Victor J. Kemper, the prolific Hollywood cinematographer, died at the age of 96.

1:20.5

I mean, along with Vilmo Zygman and Laslo Covacks, this cameraman, I think, really helped define

1:25.9

the look of 1970s American film. With such films

1:29.4

as Sydney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon, Elaine May's Mikey and Nikki, John Cassavetti's husbands,

1:36.0

and Peter Yates's The Friends of Eddie Coyle. As his career went on, he developed a flare for

1:41.3

comedy. He was the cameraman on National Lampoon's Vacation, the Steve Martin starmaking film The Jerk,

1:48.0

Tim Burton's directorial debut, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Tommy Boy with Chris Farley and David Spade,

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