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🗓️ 29 June 2024
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You can go looking for the zeitgeist, but only the zeitgeist can find you. That's what the makers of countless pieces of failed Oscar bait have learned. In this special episode, we run through some of the most legendary failed Oscar bait of the last 25 years and speculate why they didn't catch anything. PLUS: presidential libraries, the Obama Foundation, and an autobiographical novel from an unlikely Hollywood star.
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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0:00.0 | Here we are together, a couple of stay-upers. |
0:05.0 | On days' duddered breakfast time, it starts it with all summer. |
0:10.0 | Whenever I'm in a small town I like to drop by whatever the used bookstore is because you always find the most |
0:16.3 | obscure things you find things that would only be owned by old people who died and |
0:21.9 | the problem with used bookstores in a big city like |
0:24.7 | well Toronto the one where you and I live is they're often very picked over you know |
0:29.7 | cities are full of eccentric like you and me who want to own these things but small towns |
0:35.2 | nobody cares I was at one recently and I found this book I never heard of this before |
0:39.2 | it's called the Search for Sunny is a Novel by Mickey Rooney. |
0:45.0 | You see here he is on the back, and he's old, right? |
0:48.3 | That is indeed Mickey Rooney. |
0:50.1 | This book was published in 1994. Now I haven't read this book yet, but I do want to read you the Dust Jacket copy, |
0:57.0 | and I may never read this book, honestly. |
0:59.0 | If anybody's read this book, The Search for Sunny Skies, |
1:02.0 | published in beautiful hardcover. |
1:04.0 | Let me know if it's any good, but the plot goes, |
1:07.0 | Mickey Rooney's first novel focuses on a subject he surely knows well. |
1:11.0 | A tale about Hollywood and a fabulous child actor of the old |
1:14.6 | Hollywood system named Sunny skies. Sunny won Oscar nominations before he was |
1:19.6 | wearing long pants. He was the world's hottest box office attraction at 16. And at 19 he was the envy of the world |
1:27.2 | when he bedded and wetted one of Filmland's classic beauties. By the way, for scholars of Trivia, that would be Ava Gardner, you know, if we're doing a direct one-to-one autobiographical reading. |
1:38.0 | It sounds a little bit autobiographical, I don't know. |
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