Let's Talk Ten
Dan Fisher and his guests come up with Top Ten lists relating to pop culture --Movies/TV/Music/Etc. -- and then they compare notes.
"Winning" arguments over what's the "best" is never the point. It's just people talking about the stuff they love and why they love it. Sometimes the conversation is silly, sometimes it's deeply personal -- as long as it's entertaining, it goes where it goes.
Each "Let's Talk Ten" will cover a fresh topic (horror movies, debut albums, TV kids' shows) with a different guest. There are no scripts and lists are not shared beforehand.
Episodes will drop every two weeks, on Mondays.
Let's Talk Ten
EP. #63 – ALTERNATE OSCARS: 1970’S with Larry Kararaszewski
Award-winning screenwriter LARRY KARASZEWSKI (Ed Wood, The People Vs. O.J.: American Crime Story) and Dan happen to share two mutual passions: movies from the 1970’s, and everything to do with the Oscars.
For this episode, they combine these into a historical overview of, arguably, the greatest decade for American cinema, as chronicled by its Academy Award winners and nominees – with plenty of discussion over which films and artists (in their opinions) should really have won or at least have been nominated. (A format “borrowed” from their friend Danny Peary, from his book Alternate Oscars.)
In just ten years, so many stone-cold classics: The Godfather, The Exorcist, Chinatown, Nashville, Jaws, Taxi Driver, Network, Annie Hall, Star Wars, The Deer Hunter, All That Jazz – plus criminally underseen but noteworthy films like Diary of a Mad Housewife, The Heartbreak Kid, and Blue Collar. Larry and Dan talk about these and many more magnificent films in great detail, with love.
For any self-proclaimed film fanatic, this might be essential listening. Or at least, with an abundance of amazing clips, it’s nearly as fun as going to the movies.