The Four Seasons

So Sunday, ooh, this was a fun day.

I thought, first of all, I thought it was interesting that The Four Seasons was playing on A&E.

Yes.

Considering that it's back now.

And I didn't even know it was a movie until this show came out on Netflix.

And then boom, right away in this TV guide, The Four Seasons playing.

So not only was it a movie, it was a popular movie.

Oh, yeah.

She had a supporting role in The King and I before her breakout role as Anita in West Side Story.

She was also in Carnal Knowledge, The Four Seasons, Slums of Beverly Hills, Fast Axe, many, many more.

Her speech impairment movie was Singing in the Rain.

Set during Hollywood's transition from silent film to talkies, a silent star undergoes elocution and speech therapy to fix her harsh voice and accent for sound recordings.

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And of course, that is the voice of our guest for today, Mario Bernardi, and he wants to talk about 1981's The Four Seasons, a movie that follows the relationship of three couples through four seasons of close encounters of the well-to-do kind.

Now how about you, Mario? Do you have a couple friends like the ones in this movie?

Well, first off, I wanna compliment you on that concise synopsis.

I, I guess the, that time period was conducive to these philosophical, introspective, wordy, [laughs] wordy movies.

Just kind of a minor plot line through it.

Just out of curiosity, Christian, have you ever seen the movie The Four Seasons?

I have not seen the movie The Four Seasons, but I am familiar with the movie The Four Seasons, and I'm a fan of Alan Alda's.

He made highly personal, intimate films about the messy reality of human connections.

The prime example is The Four Seasons in 1981, which he wrote, directed and starred in.

The film tracks three upper middle class couples who vacation together every season.

Right.

His real life daughters had roles in the film and the photography used by one of the characters in the movie was actually shot by Arlene.

He was taking the emotional data from his own close circle of friends and translating it for a mass audience.

The themes of that film are so universal that the Four Seasons is actually being adapted into a brand new television series by Tina Fey for Netflix.

Oh, I heard about that.

Ok-

I th- okay, so I think Mommie Dearest, Rocky III, The Four Seasons-

Oh, yeah

... were on all the time.

It was on HBO constantly.

And we d- we already ran through the movies [laughs] that were on HBO constantly.

The Four Seasons, uh, with-

I don't remember that