Atlantic City
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Search complete. 12 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Atlantic City".
Oct 4, 2026
Simon OwensHOST
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Simon OwensHOST
C, Paul Newman for Absence of Malice; or D, Burt Lancaster for Atlantic City.
Kevin TraskPANELIST
I reckon, Mr. Trask, I've got this locked down.
Simon OwensHOST
Good on you [laughs]
Kevin TraskPANELIST
Yeah.
Simon OwensHOST
Go ahead.
Kevin TraskPANELIST
And it wasn't Burt Lancaster for Atlantic City.
Simon OwensHOST
So.
Kevin TraskPANELIST
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Kevin TraskPANELIST
C, Paul Newman for Absence of Malice; or D, Burt Lancaster for Atlantic City?
Simon OwensHOST
I reckon, Mr. Trask, I've got this locked down.
Kevin TraskPANELIST
Good on you.
Kevin TraskPANELIST
Yeah.
Simon OwensHOST
Go ahead.
Kevin TraskPANELIST
And it wasn't Burt Lancaster for Atlantic City.
Simon OwensHOST
So.
JeffHOST
She was born in Queens, New York, in 1946.
JeffHOST
Now, Susan, she has been nominated for Best Actress Oscars for Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, The Client.
JeffHOST
Then she won one.
JeffHOST
Yeah, that's for A Dead Man Walking.
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Ben ShapiroHOST
So if I count that right, that would be two transgenders, a 1970s era militant feminist actress mostly famous for baring her breasts in a movie called Atlantic City, and an as-a-Jew ham sandwich bisexual actress.
Ben ShapiroHOST
Every single person who I just named would be tossed off a building in Gaza or hanged from a crane in Tehran.
Ben ShapiroHOST
Pathetic.
Will DodsonHOST
Oh, this is great.
Will DodsonHOST
Uh, coming soon on 4K from, uh, in the US from Kino Lorber, uh, Louis Malle's Atlantic City from 1980.
Will DodsonHOST
And, uh, this is one of Burt Lancaster's last great performances.
Will DodsonHOST
He is so good in this.
Will DodsonHOST
Um-
Hunter RobinsonGUEST
Yeah
Will DodsonHOST
... like I didn't really perk up until Atlantic City.
Will DodsonHOST
[laughs] I've been, I've been coasting on the John Wayne announcement for about an hour.
Scott MasonHOST
And as we said before, it also went on to get nominated for a bunch of Academy Awards and win a couple of them, including Best Picture.
Scott MasonHOST
It beat out Atlantic City, a pretty solid movie, but I never thought it was any type of all-time classic.
Scott MasonHOST
Reds with Warren Beatty, which a lot of people really liked.
Scott MasonHOST
It was a bit divisive at the time.
Scott MasonHOST
He did not win.
Scott MasonHOST
He lost out to Warren Beatty for Reds.
Scott MasonHOST
Louis Malle was nominated for Atlantic City.
Scott MasonHOST
Mark Rydell was nominated for On Golden Pond, and Steven Spielberg was nominated for Raiders of the Lost Ark.