Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini-Ep #14: A Simple Plan & Radio Days

Episode Date: June 18, 2015

Each week, comedian Gilbert Gottfried and comedy writer Frank Santopadre share their appreciation of lesser-known films, underrated TV shows and hopelessly obscure character actors -- discussing, dissecting and (occasionally) defending their handpicked guilty pleasures and buried treasures. This week: The disappearance of Bridget Fonda! Jerry Lewis "meets" John Cusack! And the Golden Age of Woody Allen! This episode is brought to you by Casper Matresses. Go to http://Casper.com/GILBERT for 50 dollars towards any mattress Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Wow. I think we should end now. There's hope. Good night. Now. Oh, so we'll go first. I think it's your turn. I don't keep track every week, but I feel it's your turn.

So what do you think? Okay. Got one you're excited about? Yeah. I mean, I always hesitate to say excited because it's like, you know, when you tell somebody, you've got to see this movie, and they'll go, oh, it's good. Yeah. Well, you don't want to play it up too much. Yeah.

Well, you don't want to play it up too much. Yeah. But there was a movie that's not very old that starred Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton. Oh, I love this movie. Richard Fonda. Yes. Directed by Sam Raimi of Evil Dead fame. And it was called A Simple Plan. Yep.

It's about people. They accidentally discover a helicopter that's crashed, and it's filled with money. No one knows where it comes from. But immediately, they all start turning on each other. It's a terrific movie. Yeah. It's actually, we talked about it the other day. I didn't know you were going to mention it now, but it was actually one that was on each other. It's a terrific movie. Yeah. It's actually, we talked about it the other day.

I didn't know you were going to mention it now, but it was actually one that was on my list, that was going to be on my list that I was going to bring up. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's one of those that it keeps getting deeper and deeper into trouble, and their lives keep falling apart, and the lies are getting more and more insane well we i like that genre of film which i guess is ordinary people try to get rich quick oh yes and or or or they do the wrong thing they make a bad choice and they dig a very very deep

hole for themselves oh oh yeah they. And there are other films. We were talking about another film that was like that one. I think I'm saving one for Albie. Oh, okay. Albie. Albie. Albie. Because I'm running out of films I want to talk about.

But I know what film you are referring to. Okay, then we'll save it for the second show. It's Ernest Goes to Camp. That's the one. Yeah. The importance of being Ernest with Jim Varney. It's a terrific movie. I mean, Sam Raimi got a lot of attention for the Evil Dead pictures and Spider-Man, the

Spider-Man trilogy, but I think it's his best movie. I love that one. And where's Bridget Fonda now? She married Danny Elfman. She married the composer from the Tim Burton movies and the Simpsons-themed composer. And she sort of, my wife and I were talking about it last week, she got out of the business. Wow. She disappeared.

I mean, you know, a lot of those actresses, we were talking about this, a lot of those actresses from that era, I guess 90s, late 80s, Phoebe Cates disappeared. Oh, yes. I mean, she married Kevin Kline and left the business, too. And who else was I? Jennifer Beals. She was on that Showtime show, but you don't see much of her anymore. There were a lot of them. Ione Skye from Say Anything.

There's a bunch of names I'm thinking of, but I'm always scared to say them because I think they're going to go, well, I'm still working. I'll go, oh, shit. Take a shot. It's hard for actresses, you know. It's hard for actresses to get older. And a lot of the actresses that you saw in a lot of Winona Ryder. Don't see much of her. Who were you thinking of? Well, Winona Ryder. Oh, yes. Don't see much of her. You know, who were you thinking of?

Well, Winona Ryder. She had other problems. Yes. It's kind of hard to smuggle a movie camera into Rikers Island. That's the problem with those Winona Ryder movies. with those Winona Ryder movies. She has truly changed my life, another member said. The day after my first session, my friends and family said I sounded like myself again, for the first time in weeks. You deserve to invest in your well-being. Visit BetterHelp.com to see what it can do for you.

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Yes. Yeah. Very good. And I think Phoebe Cates is half a Jew. That's right. Horowitz. Yes. Yeah. Very good. And I think Phoebe Cates is half a Jew. She might be. I think she's a Chinese Jew. She might be. I'm not sure what that means, but I'm going to move past it.

I like Bridget Fonda, too, in a comedy called It Could Happen to You. Oh, with what's his name? With Cage. Forgive that musical interlude. Yes. Cage. Nick Cage, which was written and directed by Andrew Bergman, who wrote The In-Laws and the original story that became Blazing Saddles.

Oh, yes. And also, speaking of Billy Bob Thornton, have you seen Pushing Tin? Oh, yes, with Cusack. Right, right. Easy for you to say. Cusack. Another little known film. Cusack.

Johnny Cusack. Johnny Cusack and you're dangerously near me. Cusack, and you're dangerously near me. Oh, you've got a big Cusack. So I like Pushing Tin with Billy Bob Thornton. I'm just going to keep blowing ahead. Or this will be a Jerry impression for 20 minutes. But A Simple Plan, great movie. It's one of those you can't say too much about. Yeah. Or this will be a Jerry impression for 20 minutes. But A Simple Plan, great movie.

It's one of those you can't say too much about. Yeah, because you'll reveal too much. You'll give it away, but it's very good. Cusack's good. Definitely see that one. It was on my list, but you stole it. Yes. Let's talk about, we had Josh Mostel on the show.

Yes. Son of Zero. And I brought up a movie that he made that I'm very, very fond of. I think I liked it more than he did. He didn't seem that particularly passionate about it. I forget, too, that sometimes these are jobs for these people. Oh, yeah. You know, they don't get as excited as fans do. But the movie is, and I talked about it briefly with Josh, Radio Days.

Oh, yeah, the Woody Allen. Yeah, a Woody Allen movie that, again, maybe not a lot of people talk about when you're listing Woody Allen's movies. There are a lot of them to choose from. This is a valentine to old radio and just a very, very sweet movie. Very, very well made in what I think was his most productive and successful period, the 80s, when Crimes and Misdemeanors

and Broadway Danny Rose and Zellig and Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy and Hannah and Her Sisters. He was really on a roll. Purple Rose of Cairo. If you look at those films now, it's really quite an output. And Radio Day's in 87

with our friend Danny Aiello. Oh, yeah. As a hit man. It's the only Woody movie that has both muses, Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow, in it. It's, again, also one

I don't want to say too much about. It's a sweet film with dual stories. It's the main story as a family with Michael Tucker of L.A. Law as the father and Julie Kavner as the mother, as basically Woody's parents. Because Seth Green plays the—

Julie Kavner, best known as Mrs. Simpson. That's Marge Simpson. Yeah. And Seth Green plays a young Woody. And it's also—I grew up in Brooklyn, too. I think it's also about Brooklyn, which is another reason that I love it. Wallace Shawn turns up. Tony Roberts turns up.

Diane Wiest. There's a great gag in the movie about a baseball player overcoming handicaps, a baseball pitcher, that's a parody of, you remember the Monty Stratton story? The movie where Jimmy Stewart played the pitcher who loses a leg? Oh, okay, yes, yes. Right, right. And there's a great gag in Radio Days

that's a spoof of that movie and that story that I won't say too much about. And Josh Mustel's hilarious in it. And I was much more excited about it than Josh was. And Rockaway Playland is in the movie, too, which is now gone. It's part of why I love it. You know, we talk about movies from the 70s and the stuff that's New York in the 70s that's gone. This is one of those movies.

They were all those great, great New York films. Yeah, this is one where you can see some old New York locations that are gone, and that was only made in 87. some old New York locations that are gone, and it was only made in 87. So I can't recommend it enough, Radio Days, in spite of Josh's lack of enthusiasm. He's funny in it. And anyway. So the two films we're recommending

are Woody Allen's Radio Days and Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan. Yeah, there's also a great bit inspired by War of the Worlds by the Orson Welles, the famous scare. Yeah, where he started doing the War of the Worlds radio show, and some people thought it was real and started making a run for it. and some people thought it was real and started making a run for it. Right, and there's a bit too in Radio Days that is sort of based on the story

of the famous child that fell in the well. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so it's a nostalgic film. It's a sweet film. It's one of my favorites. Definitely check it out. Woody's not in it, just his voice, just his narration.

And Larry David turns up, too, as a voice. So, Radio Days. Anything else you want to say about missing actresses? Ah! How about Daryl Hannah? Oh, yeah!

Yeah. Another one. Yeah. Very scary. No. You don't see much of her anymore. You want to name those actresses that you were afraid to name? Now, I heard.

Yeah. Daryl Hannah was one of those actresses that there were these actresses who had no trouble doing nudity. I guess so. Okay. So Daryl Hannah's one. Right. She dropped her clothes. Julianne Moore, of course.

Julianne Moore, yep. Saw her bush in a movie. I think Lee, oh, here's an actress. Jennifer Jason Leigh was fine taking her clothes clothes off she's another one you don't see much of and she did some great films oh valerie perrine yeah valerie perrine used to we should get valerie perrine on the show if she isn't offended by this show or what we just said did bridget fonda ever take off her clothes? That's a really good question. I'll direct you to a website called Mr. Skin.

Yeah. Believe me, you don't have to direct me there. Okay. Not that I know of, but I could be wrong. I'm practically a shareholder. And so mine is a simple plan. Which is another one I love. Yeah.

So mine is a simple plan. Which is another one I love. Yeah. Just people greed, making people go nuts and destroying people. Yeah. And we should actually sit down and come up with a list because there are a lot of those. Oh, a lot. A lot of those kinds of movies. And none of them are popping into my head right now.

See, this is why I want a new co-host. See, this is why I want a new co-host. Because if I had a co-host who knew what the fuck he was doing, he'd say, this is popping into my head now. I'm saddled with someone who sits across from me and goes, I got nothing. So simple plan and radio days if you like listening to comedy try watching it on the internet the folks behind the sideshow network have launched a new youtube channel called Wait For It. It's got interviews with comedians like Reggie Watts, Todd Glass, Liza Schleichinger. Schleichinger, I've been friends with her for 10 years.

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