400 – Town and Country
About this episode
In the 400th episode, the hosts discuss the notorious Hollywood bomb 'Town and Country' and its troubled production history.
It’s our 400th episode this week, so we had to go big. What could be more fitting than a notorious bomb with major star pedigree?! No stranger to misfires, Warren Beatty nevertheless was one of the biggest names in Hollywood that could generate buzz with any project – and more prophetically in this case – could have any budgetary or creative demand met. Town and Country was a simple middle-aged sex farce (that Beatty took neither producing or writing credits…) that ultimately resulted in years of reshoots or creative redirections before becoming one of the biggest and most forgotten Hollywood box office bombs. This episode, we talk about how the film fails to riff on Beatty’s playboy star persona and the film’s troubled production history. We also talk about the numerous rewrites and reshoots that plagued the film, a foul-mouthed Marian Seldes, and and Beatty’s reactions to the film’s disastrous press cycle. Topics also include Idaho costume parties, cello tattoos, and our favorites from the previous year of the show.
People in this episode
Hosts: Joe, Chris
Topics covered
- Hollywood box office bombs
- film production history
- rewrites and reshoots
- Warren Beatty's career
- comedy films
- celebrity culture
Keywords
- Warren Beatty
- Town and Country
- Hollywood
- box office bomb
- film history
- comedy
- rewrites
- reshoots
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Town and Country
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- 402 – The Return
- 401 – Playing By Heart
- 399 – Lovely And Amazing (with Jeff Hiller!)
- 398 – Short Term 12
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