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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 1301 - Tony Kushner

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Tony Kushner is one of the most important American playwrights of the past 50 years who is now a creative partner of one of the most important American filmmakers of the last 50 years. Tony talks with Marc about working with Steven Spielberg on Munich, Lincoln and the new adaptation of West Side Story. They also discuss the history of Jews in the Louisiana lumber industry, the pivotal moment of Angels in America that came to him in a dream, and the play he saw when he was six that made him want to be a part of the theater community.

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0:00.0

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0:05.7

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0:14.4

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0:20.6

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0:31.6

Oh hello you caught me practicing on my new slide whistle you see spec savers have asked me to tell you about something very exciting

0:38.6

And as it's radio I thought well it's always best to use sound isn't it so here goes

0:43.6

While prices everywhere are going at spec savers they're coming thank you with glasses now from just 15 pounds

0:52.6

You're better off with spec savers I could have just said that I suppose include standard single vision lenses asking store for details

0:59.6

Fuck the game!

1:11.6

All right let's do this how are you what the fuckers what the fuck buddies what the fuck nicks what's happening

1:17.6

I'm Mark Marin this is my podcast welcome to it how are you I feel better I don't feel 100% I'm close to I think being

1:28.6

All better I don't know you know it's hard to know with the covid situation my tests are looking good

1:35.6

There's progress being made I will test again this week and hopefully get a tomorrow actually maybe today

1:42.6

Today I'll test again and maybe get the the full neg we'll see we'll see but I am through the worst of it I do believe Tony Kushner is on the show

1:53.6

He's a kind of a genius a wizard an intellect and an artist he's the Pulitzer prize winning playwright of angels in America

2:01.6

The musical Caroline or change and a frequent collaborator with Steven Spielberg writing the screenplays for Munich Lincoln and now Westside story

2:10.6

He's also the husband of Mark Harris the film historian guy who I had on here we had a good talk and I asked Mark as like I said his Tony in the other room and he said yeah

2:20.6

And now we talked we talked a little bit about Mark this time anyways this is a very thrilling interview a very good interview I was a I was nervous

2:30.6

You know I always I never know if I can if I can hang with these intellectual heavy weights but I'm a big fan of a lot of his work

2:39.6

And it was a it was a great conversation that's coming up I've been trying to figure out a way that me and Guillermo del Toro can hang out again on the podcast and just you know talk about shit

2:53.6

So I had this idea that maybe I would I would ask him because I'm not a horror movie guy I don't I just don't I don't like thrillers I don't like suspense I don't like horror

3:06.6

I get bored I get frustrated or I get disturbed it doesn't it doesn't seem to work for me like it works for people who like it

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