#49 POP Dive: The First Wives Club
Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino
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4.9 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In this Everything Iconic POP Dive, Danny and guest Jenna Brister (writer/comedian), deep dive into 1996's The First Wives Club. They go through the film, discuss the legacy, and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Everything Iconic Pop Dive, where my guests and I deep dive into iconic |
| 0:14.2 | pop culture touchstones. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Danny Pellegrino and this week writer, comedian and one of my all time favorite people, |
| 0:20.6 | Jenna Brister and I are deep diving into the first wives club. |
| 0:24.0 | This iconic 1996 comedy grossed over $181 million worldwide in 1996 and starred Diane |
| 0:30.6 | Keaton, Bet Midler and Goldie Hahn as a trio of first wives exacting revenge on their |
| 0:35.2 | awful first husbands. |
| 0:37.6 | Composer Mark Schaiman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Music |
| 0:41.0 | Score for the film, plus the movie was adapted as a musical for stage in 2009 and as a TV |
| 0:46.9 | pilot for TV Land just this year. |
| 0:49.5 | The three leads have starred in countless iconic films, but the first wives club will |
| 0:53.5 | forever remain a favorite among women and gay men because of the absolutely brilliant |
| 0:57.8 | script and because it's the rare studio film starring three women over the age of 40. |
| 1:03.5 | This is an everything iconic pop dive into the first wives club. |
| 1:07.1 | We're talking about revenge. |
| 1:09.1 | No, I'm talking about justice. |
| 1:11.1 | Put it in there. |
| 1:12.1 | Okay, first wives club, come to order. |
| 1:16.1 | Be afraid. |
| 1:17.1 | Be very afraid. |
| 1:18.1 | Bet Midler, Goldie Hahn, Diane Keaton. |
| 1:19.1 | For some ladies, we can help them out, we can help them fall. |
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