What the Oscars Should Learn From the Tonys
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week we finally have an awards show to talk about— the Tonys! The Broadway awards were a bigger hit than usual this year, and had the usual expected doses of earnest enthusiasm; we debate whether any of that can actually translate to the movie-star cool of the Oscars. Plus discussion of Meryl Streep’s would-be summer hit Florence Foster Jenkins, a look at the grim state of summer box office, and a surprisingly fervent debate about the best picture of 2003.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast from Vanity Fair and Panoply that proves that |
| 0:12.4 | awards season really is a year-round event. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of vanityfair.com, and I'm here with Vanity Fair's digital director, Mike Hogan. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello, Katie. |
| 0:22.0 | Vanity Fair's film critic Richard Lawson. |
| 0:24.0 | Mike, you're singing because you got the Tones in your heart, right? |
| 0:26.4 | This is a Tones episode. |
| 0:28.0 | I was trying to be Tones-ish. |
| 0:30.0 | Well, it's an award show to talk about that actually matters in this long summer before Oscar season returns. |
| 0:36.0 | The Broadway Award show brought in the best ratings it's had in 15 years, and Hamilton was a big part of that, but also a |
| 0:42.0 | James Corden as the host, and we kind of wanted to know what the other award shows could learn from the |
| 0:47.2 | Tonies maybe even though the Tonies have always kind of been the little sibling of the Oscars and the Golden Globes etc. |
| 0:53.0 | And then from there we'll talk about a piece that our own Julie Miller wrote for V.com yesterday |
| 0:57.0 | about how very few millennials are buying tickets to movies this summer or at least fewer of |
| 1:01.0 | they are dropping off in numbers larger than the rest of the |
| 1:03.7 | population. |
| 1:04.7 | This is supposed to be the season where Hollywood makes a huge amount of its money and does that mean |
| 1:08.7 | it's time to panic instead? |
| 1:11.1 | But first the week in Oscar News, which is really the weekend, Richard Lawson Party Going |
| 1:14.9 | news. I found out right before we started recording this that you went to see what is a kind of a sleeper Oscar |
| 1:22.1 | contender, but probably a real one Florence Foster |
| 1:24.6 | Jenkins it has a real street minute which automatically puts it on our radar but what |
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