Episode 267: Smile (1975)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

Get on your sash and listen to the discussion of Michael Ritchie's Smile, a send-up of beauty pageants and small-town America from 1975. We talked to a few of the stars of the film: Bruce Dern, Nicholas Pryor, Barbara Feldon, Denise Nickerson, and Annette O'Toole. Joining Mike in the discussion is The Cultural Gutter's Carol Borden and The Crawling Eye's Kevin Heffernan.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:07.8	The most popular spectator sport in America is not the Super Bowl or the Olympics or the World Series or the heavyweight championship.
0:19.3	It's the beauty pageant.
0:21.6	From the moment she's born, every girl is eligible.
0:25.6	All it takes is a pretty face, a little talent, a lot of luck, and a great big smile.
0:32.6	Smile, though your heart is aching.
0:38.1	Smile.
0:41.2	The story of a teenage beauty page.
0:44.3	The girls who enter it, the people who run it,
0:47.8	and what it does to a small American town.
0:51.3	Just be yourselves and keep smiling.
0:58.1	I know you all came to see a whale of a show,
0:59.8	and a whale of a show it is.
1:01.3	Abid, daven, daven, daven, daffi, daff, daff, daff, daff,
1:02.8	spent the monkey cheese a champ.
1:04.3	Any real lookers this year?
1:05.7	Oh, you man.
1:10.5	A club has spent a lot of time and money trying to help these young people become responsible adults
1:12.5	Got down!
1:15.6	Rotting maggots of death!
1:17.6	Everything counts up here, your grades, your personality, the judge's conference.
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