B.E.E. Podcast Cyber Receipt - 1/18/20 - Joel Stein
Added 2020-01-29 05:34:54 +0000 UTCThank you for your pledge! The decade is off to a splendid start. New episode this week with a writer who saw one of his novels made into a movie by a director who was a past podcast guest. Having a hard time following? Worry not, all will be clear very soon. If you feel like guessing who it might be, give it your best shot in the comments section below.
Comments
Been listening to listening to some of these podcasts in reverse. In a previous comment I didn't compliment Mr. Ellis' movie criticism, almost like arias, which are frequently so entrancing that there's more interest and insight than in the accompanying interviews. I love that he's begun spotlighting old films, Charade and Cleo from 5 to 7 in his most recent episode. He even makes me want to see some of these new movies; 2019 was the first yr in a couple decades where I did not watch one new flick. Ellis says it was a good haul but none of them seemed particularly interesting, and I just cannot stomach these late Tarantino fairy tale historical revisionist takes which are like the GenXers' style in snowflake cinema, and though I won't take that one in or Greta Gerwig's Little Women I have begun delve. The other thing I'd like to add is that in this one he brings up Vidal. 1. I don't understand why Ellis doesn't like his smashing comic fictions like Kalki or Duluth which ought to be right up his alley, or Messiah. 2. When Ellis talks about how in his day everybody read everything but now no one reads literary fiction because "quality television" has taken over he sounds just like Vidal did in the fifties, serenely discussing how movies had taken the audience away from the Novel back THEN. By the 80s, the period Ellis thinks of as reader-y, Vidal thought American culture had long been ceded to the likes of Welcome Back Kotter and Hart to Hart. Love the show. Wish Ellis would have the critic Armond White on, the other most interesting critic aside from Mr. Ellis going to these days, which is different than correct in views. TTFN
Joseph A Aisenberg
2020-03-19 09:51:00 +0000 UTCLoved this pod,each one is better and better
Erick
2020-02-10 04:43:17 +0000 UTCDavid Grann
Alex Waller
2020-01-30 01:52:14 +0000 UTCIf we're talking comic writers, I think Neil Gaiman would be a better fit for the BEE podcast than Moore. I love Moore (he's my favorite) but he's too out there for Bret and this show's aesthetic.
Michael Yakutis
2020-01-29 18:52:20 +0000 UTCAlan Moore would be the greatest guest ever.
Eric Macom
2020-01-29 14:54:17 +0000 UTCAlan Moore? I say that because Alan Moore would be unhappy with anything
Tim O'Hare
2020-01-29 10:42:00 +0000 UTCIs the guest Bret Easton Ellis himself??
Sven Safarow
2020-01-29 08:47:00 +0000 UTCIdk & idc stoked for a new ep!
Trevor Wysling
2020-01-29 05:43:55 +0000 UTC
