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🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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In 1988 the movie Big broke records, solidified careers, and became an instant classic. Today on Buzzn The Tower we'll find a Zoltar machine and make a wish as we talk about one of the greatest movies from the 80s, Big! I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me for the first time ever the Billy to my Josh Baskin, Bruce Amwake. And with that...
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0:00.0 | I |
0:09.0 | Got some other cool facts about the movie the piano that was created for the piano scene |
0:13.4 | I think the original one was quite a bit smaller and the designer of this for the movie |
0:18.4 | I think his name was Sarasini. I could be butchering that he created a 16 foot version that was selling for $15,000 |
0:25.5 | And it sold like crazy. Oh, he was actually made for retail. Yeah, it changed his life because all the sudden he was making |
0:32.8 | $15,000 toys for people's room. Wow |
0:35.8 | Robert Loja and Tom and Tom Hanks. He's fantastic by the way |
0:39.5 | They created like a cardboard cutout that they would use at home to practice so there was all them the day of the shoot |
0:45.4 | Penny Marshall had a couple stuntmen or fillings to like do it for them and Loja's like step out of my way |
0:51.2 | I don't know if you said it like that |
0:52.3 | They did it. I think almost in like one and a half takes they all they both practice on their own |
0:56.0 | So that is a hundred percent them doing the guys are pros and ever since yeah |
1:04.9 | Welcome to Buzz in the Tower a podcast dedicated to the movies of the 1980s prepare to be stuffed in our delorean and taken on a trip through the best |
1:12.4 | Decade of film ever hey mo we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88 |
1:17.3 | Roads where we're going. We don't need roads |
1:20.5 | So if you love Caddy Shack the goonies aliens weird science spies like us the great outdoors |
1:26.1 | Empire strikes back the great muppet caper pretty in pink predator rocky for roadhouse say anything real genius short circuit |
1:34.3 | Some kind of wonderful Beverly Hills cop Akira Tango and cash the breakfast club and they live just to name a few |
1:40.7 | Then sit back relax and get ready to be entertained because we came here to chew bubble gum and podcast about 80 |
1:47.1 | These movies and we're all out of bubble gum |
1:55.5 | If you haven't already subscribe to Buzz in the Tower on Apple podcast Spotify or whatever your favorite podcast platform is and |
2:02.7 | While you're there leave a review in a five star rating. It's a moral imperative |
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