Diner w. Laura Lippman
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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"This is why you are so nervous all the time. You have like chunks of roast beef in your heart!" We take a trip to 1950s Baltimore (by way of the 1980s) and talk Diner with the incomparable Laura Lippman.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you and welcome to You Are Good A Feelings Podcast about Movies. |
| 0:14.6 | Today we're talking about Diner and we're talking about it with our great friend, |
| 0:19.0 | Laura Lippman. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm one of your hosts Alex Steed and I will soon be joined by my marvelous co-host Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:26.6 | Diner is a 1982 American comedy drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson. |
| 0:32.1 | It is Levinson's screen directing debut. |
| 0:35.0 | It stars Steve Gutenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, |
| 0:39.0 | Paul Reiser, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly, |
| 0:42.0 | and Ellen Barkin. The film follows a close-knit circle of friends who reunite at a Baltimore diner when one of them prepares to get married. |
| 0:51.0 | Laura Littman has been on the show several times before. We love her. She is a friend of ours. She is a New York Times best-selling author. She's written like a thousand books, including recently, Prom Mom, which has a Sarah Marshall connection. |
| 1:06.8 | We'll talk about that in this very episode. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm going to give some more book recommendations a little bit later on, but somebody asked for me to |
| 1:15.2 | recommend more books because I tend to read a good deal. And Prom Mom is one of the books that |
| 1:20.9 | I'd recommend. I think I've actually recommended it in an intro before, but check out prom mom by Laura Littman. |
| 1:28.0 | Hey, we, you are good. We're going to be at San Francisco SF Sketch Fest in early February. |
| 1:37.4 | If you want to see us do the thing on stage with our great friend Chelsea Weber Smith, you can do that. |
| 1:43.8 | There'll be a link for more information in the show notes. |
| 1:46.6 | Hopefully you'll come check us out |
| 1:47.9 | because we would love to see your faces |
| 1:50.7 | and do this whole thing with you in San Francisco. |
| 1:53.4 | You're wrong about it's going to be there too. |
| 1:55.0 | You know, we'll have information to those things. |
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