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126 - Reds (feat. Jake Beckhard and Andy Boyd)
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Jake Beckhard and Andy Boyd (Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist) join the lads as they head on back to the U.S.S.R. to cover Warren Beatty’s 1981 communist blockbuster: Reds. Topics include the brilliance of Diane Keaton, the terrifying smoochability of Eugene O’Neill, and how to make art in a world teetering on the edge of revolution.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Reds. Dir. Warren Beatty. 1981.
- Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany by Stephen Sondheim. Penguin Random House. 2011.
- O’Neill: Son and Playwright by Louis Sheaffer. Little, Brown, and Company. 1968.
- “Thunder on the Left” by Peter Biskind. Vanity Fair. January 22nd, 2007.
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