Beauty and the Beast [1991] w. Dana Schwartz
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
A bride without a head! A wolf without a foot! We laugh and cry and sing and love Howard Ashman (and, of course, Jerry Orbach). We talk Beauty and the Beast [1991] with the splendiferous Dana Schwartz.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:07.2 | Hello, Alex Seed. |
| 0:09.6 | We're going to talk about Beauty and the Beast, which I'm so excited about. |
| 0:13.7 | And before we do that, after this introduction, we're going to make an announcement about |
| 0:19.9 | the fate of the show. So please check that out, folks. |
| 0:23.8 | It's sticking around, but a thing will be different. But I want to talk to you about |
| 0:29.1 | Beauty and the Beast and talk to you about our wonderful guest, Dana Schwartz. You just |
| 0:33.8 | listen to this episode again. How did it strike you? I feel like this is in some |
| 0:40.4 | ways difficult to identify as a Disney adult. And I feel like this episode is a safe space for |
| 0:46.6 | Disney adults. Why do you think that is? Why do you think it was a fine place to do that? And what do you find |
| 0:54.9 | difficult about that identity? Well, I feel like, especially in the past year, there's been a lot |
| 1:00.7 | of drama, and I kind of mentioned this briefly in the episode with like Disney running theme parks |
| 1:06.6 | or closing theme parks or sort of mitigating crowds at theme parks, et cetera, during a pandemic |
| 1:14.2 | and the various choices that Disney has made and the choices that people who are trying |
| 1:20.8 | very hard to get back into Disney parks have made. |
| 1:23.9 | And I feel like the idea of like being an adult who loves Disney or who wants to go to a Disney park gets very found up in the idea that you are clinging to childhood or to immacurity in a way that's fundamentally embarrassing and kind of unsophisticated. And I would say it is unsophisticated and that sophistication is |
| 1:46.6 | overrated, but I don't think it's embarrassing or has to be. My view of it is that I was in denial |
| 1:52.4 | about this for a long time, like how deeply my software had been written by Disney from the time that |
| 2:00.1 | I was a very young child. And I feel like in the past |
| 2:02.5 | few years, I have really embraced the fact that I know all these songs. I love all these songs. |
| 2:09.1 | Like, it makes me happy to sing these songs and better yet to sing them with somebody. Some of the most |
| 2:16.2 | kind of transcendently lovely moments of friendship that I've |
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