The Paper

... how they shot it.

And then it's Far and Away and The Paper.

I think The Paper's great.

Paper is great, yeah.

But Far and Away definitely feels like a bit of a whiff.

he's nominated but he's never won

spotlight i guess he probably came pretty close Yeah, The Paper.

The Paper.

Another Ron Howard movie.

Yeah.

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I'll give you my journalism Mount Rushmore.

The Insider, All the President's Men, Spotlight... and I will go for The Paper.

And then for a fifth one, I would probably say something like The Sweet Smell of Success, maybe? I could probably...

The fifth one, it could probably be interchangeable.

But those four, All the President's Men, The Insider, The Paper, and...

What was the other one I said? Insider, All the President's Men, Spotlight, and The Paper.

Those are my four Mount Rushmore journalism movies.

Um...

Uh, and, and more frequently you'll hear this as an excuse when let's say a new, a new commissioner of parking revenue is, uh, is hired and for the lack of another thing.

I think of, uh, Randy Quaid in that movie The Paper, chasing down Jason Alexander.

"Why me? It was your turn." Michael Keaton and it was g- it was actually a fun paper.

And, and Robert Duvall plays a role in that as he will in a, an email that comes up shortly.

And this last text from Terry, who writes in, Joe, did you ever see or read To Kill a Mockingbird? Are you saying that we should just unloose every Boo Radley in the community? And I read it in high school, believe it or not.

I had read the play.

Never saw the movie until last year because I found out Robert Duvall, like at the age of 21, plays Boo Radley in it.

So that's two Robert Duvall mentions in the same segment of the radio program.

Some people actually wanna see the meat right in front of their face.

Well, if I'm producing a movie, directing a movie, I kinda wanna see the meat.

I, you know, and listen, it's, it's been a process for a long time.

It's changed a little bit now.

And you know, he, he lived to be 89 years old.

Uh, we worked together right at the end of his life.

We worked together on a movie, and it was just such a pleasure.

And I knew, there wa- there, there was something telling me that Pop was not gonna be around that much longer.

Last one for tonight, we have Randy Quaid.

Known for things like Kingpin, Independence Day, Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Not Another Teen Movie, Brokeback Mountain, Days of Thunder, Quick Change, The Paper, Major League Two, The Last Picture Show.

which we covered on the Jeff Bridges episode, what feels like years ago, Paper Moon and Bloodhounds of Broadway.

How old is Randy Quaid?

Did Donald Pleasance reprise his role as Dr. Loomis basically for this movie? Yes, pretty much.

That's hilarious.

He's doing a lot of nonverbal stuff in this movie, which I always appreciate from actors because, you know, you can read the lines off the paper, but he has to look mysterious and sexual.

It's an interesting movie.

And you said virtue in your down and dirty summary.

But it also reminds me of another work that I love to quote, which is The Paper, the Ron Howard movie.

in which Marissa Tomei reminds her husband, Michael Keaton, that he thinks that goodness lies in the decision you make at the huge crisis, huge moment, right? The gun is pointed to your head or, you know, something else.

But actually, goodness is in hundreds and thousands of small decisions every day.

Yeah, but it also reminds me of Dover Beach with the ignorant armies clashing by night.

Yeah, certainly ignorant armies there.

It doesn't remind me of the paper.

But, you know, there is this kind of minor tradition that, in fact, Helen was not at Troy.

...

Death Becomes Her, and Carlito's Way, and Jurassic Park, and the paper for Ronnie Howard, he, uh, he wrote the screenplay, and it was very funny.

I bet.

I thought it was very funny.

Yeah

I completely forgot about that

And then you've got Carlito's Way, Death Becomes Her, um, the, The Paper.

That was a Ron Howard film, I think.

Yeah.

The paper is interesting.

Yeah.

That one I would consider.