Wonder Boys
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Oct 27, 2026
Tig NotaroHOST
Yeah.
Tig NotaroHOST
Wonder Boys.
Tig NotaroHOST
They're
Fortune FeimsterHOST
old.
Neil PasrichaHOST
I wanted to ask you about, not one-hit wonders, but what do you do in your life when you have one thing supersede everything else, as maybe all of us do, you, me, Chabon.
Neil PasrichaHOST
His other books, though, include The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Telegraph Avenue, and famously turned into a movie, Wonder Boys.
Neil PasrichaHOST
In 1939, in World War II, Joe Cavalier, a young Jewish artist and trained escape artist, flees Nazi-occupied Prague and arrives in Brooklyn, where he meets his cousin Sammy Clay, and together they create The Escapist, a superhero who becomes a sensation.
Neil PasrichaHOST
File this one, Dewey Decimal Heads, under 813.5 for 20th Century American Fiction.
Zach GlennHOST
And just a quick note on him, not overly familiar with his work, but he is a prolific and award-winning author and musician.
Zach GlennHOST
He's actually won a Pulitzer, and he wrote the book Wonder Boys that was eventually adapted into a film that I love.
Zach GlennHOST
starring Tobey Maguire as one of the titular boys.
Zach GlennHOST
If you haven't seen that one, I recommend it.
Alec BaldwinHOST
Roles that have challenged the way we think about family, power, money, sex.
Alec BaldwinHOST
Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, Nick Curran in Basic Instinct, as well as romancing The Stone, Traffic, and Wonder Boys.
Alec BaldwinHOST
Michael was at his home in New York City when I visited with him.
Alec BaldwinHOST
He's worked with everyone from Oliver Stone to Curtis Hanson to Steven Soderbergh.
Michael DouglasGUEST
So, uh, it's, uh, it's, it, it's exciting, you know, on one side and very depressing [laughs] on, on the other.
Michael DouglasGUEST
One movie that is, happens to be one of my favorites that's a really ensemble picture and never achieved the kind of, you know, commercial success was a film called Wonder Boys.
Josh HorowitzHOST
Wonder Boys.
Michael DouglasGUEST
And if anybody, you know, for anybody, if you ever get a chance, it's, it's a, it's a, a, a great picture.
Michael DouglasGUEST
It's Robert Downey Jr., Frances McDormand, Tobey Maguire, myself, uh, uh, uh, I'd like to-
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Josh HorowitzHOST
Yeah
Michael DouglasGUEST
... uh, in that, in that piece.
Josh HorowitzHOST
And Wonder Boys.
Michael DouglasGUEST
Yeah.
Bill MaherHOST
But you had to run from, as an actor, as a movie star, from China Syndrome to whenever like Wonder Boys and Traffic, like a 25-year, that's mid-30s to late 50s.
Bill MaherHOST
That is as good as you can do to be like as still a romantic lead, leading man, top of the A-list, you know, gets the good scripts.
Bill MaherHOST
Jeez.
Ann HornadayGUEST
Two juicy movies.
Ann HornadayGUEST
really fun movie like retro in all the best senses of the word but but not kitschy you know I mean I noticed the other day I was watching Wonder Boys which is one of my favorite movies very underrated and she did that which is a very it's not retro I mean it's a little bit it's 80s I suppose so but it's not um self-consciously retro so she um she was explaining how you know we were talking about detail and kind of the level of detail that you want to get into a background shot.
Ann HornadayGUEST
And the way that she explained it was that oftentimes, you know, the design is telling part of the story.
Ann HornadayGUEST
In other words, it's providing that exposition.
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Jason FraleyHOST
I
Ann HornadayGUEST
mean, like, Pulp Fiction.
Ann HornadayGUEST
Or Wonder Boys.
Ann HornadayGUEST
Like, that's one of my all-time
Charlie RoseHOST
Tobey Maguire is here.
Charlie RoseHOST
You know him from his sensitive portrayals in such films as The Ice Storm, The Cider House Rules, and Wonder Boys.
Charlie RoseHOST
When Sony announced last year that Maguire would play the lead in the much-anticipated film Spider-Man, it came as a surprise.
Charlie RoseHOST
The choice has paid off.
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I used to care, but things have changed.
DanHOST
Spider-Man actor and Wonder Boys star for whom Dylan wrote Things Have Changed, Tobey Maguire was born June 27th.
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People move on.
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Bad decisions.
Greg KretschmarHOST
Uh, good show, though.
Kelly BrownHOST
Wonder Boys is in my top three.
Kelly BrownHOST
Tobey Maguire, what a, Robert Downey Jr., uh, great funny flick.
Greg KretschmarHOST
Mm-hmm.
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