Hello and oh my go

the fountainhead episode of slate money goes to the movies I'm

Felix salmon of Axios I'm here with Emily Peck

hello and oh my God do we have a doozy for you this week. We have Michael Beirut. Michael welcome, who are you?

Hello, my name is Michael Vayroot.

I'm a graphic designer, a partner in the firm Pentagon,

and a recovering Iron-RAN fan.

Iron-RAN fan.

Iron-RAN being one of the great bugaboos of 20th century America.

She has huge influence in the Republican Party to this day and she wrote this book called The Fountainhead that she then turned into a script which she

insisted on being filmed without changing a single word.

This script actually got made into a surprisingly watchable movie starring Gary Cooper

It's The Fountainhead from 1948 49 something like that. That's all coming up on a very fun episode I have to say of slate money goes to the movies. There's diggin and then there's super digging.

There's food and then there's baker's super foods

made with selected natural ingredients and tasty chicken.

The food.

And then there's Baker Superfoods.

So Michael Beirut, where were you, if you remember, when was it that you first saw the fountain head?

The fountain head, I can't say where it was when I first saw the movie, which probably would have

been on some late night TV on a UHF channel in Ohio or maybe even when I first moved to New York in 1980 but the movie is very much, and very much a product of the book upon which it's based.

And that's made clear from the opening frames.

It's basically the opening shot shows like the cover of a book the pages turn and that introduces the credits and I read the book in the ninth grade in suburban Cleveland and I just was thunderstruck by it and I believe I read it God forgive me seven more times before I turn 20.

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