A journalism star is born in this 1996 romance starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford: “The story of a woman on the way up, and a man who helped her get there.” We’re off the deep end, watch as we dive in to talk about the Hollywood nightmare that turned Jessica Savitch’s tragic journalism career into this melodramatic Disney trash. Also, we mix up Dangerous Liaisons and Dangerous Minds.

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Sha, la, la, la, la, la, la, yeah, uh-huh. Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones, because we need a drink after this grim historical thriller where a Welsh journalist exposes Soviet genocide and finds out the hard way that no good reporting goes unpunished. Tara and Jacob discuss fake news, eating noises, and Peter Sarsgaard’s butt at an opium party.

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The fashionable Katie Toth is here for everyone’s favourite haute couture workplace comedy, The Devil Wears Prada. Who’s the movie villain and who’s the actual villain? Why is Andy so unprepared for her job interviews? And are you wearing…the Chanel boots?

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Beanie Feldstein is Caitlin Moran in the coming-of-age rock & roll journalism romp How To Build A Girl. Jacob and Tara discuss the role of a music critic in “napalming the parasites,” and delight themselves by attempting bad English accents.

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For a problematic Canadian holiday, we watched two Canadian movies with problems. First, Toronto’s Rob Ford scandal meets millennial media angst in the 2020 drama Run This Town. Then, a Montreal reporter with an advanced case of horniness organizes a newspaper union in the 1974 sex comedy Why Rock The Boat?

Tara and Jacob discuss Damian Lewis’ baffling Rob Ford impression, sexy popcorn eating, and our true patriot love for seeing characters take their shoes off when they come inside.

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Special guest H.G. Watson joins us for David Fincher’s 2007 thriller, Zodiac! We obsessively discuss whether this is a journalism movie or a cop movie, the ethics of publishing serial killer sudoku, and Jake Gyllenhaal’s hairless knuckles.

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It’s the ultimate screwball comedy classic about daffy buttinskis running around without a nickel in their pockets (AKA journalists). Jacob and Tara ruminate on Cary Grant’s love life and Rosalind Russell’s jawline, swap tales of old Hollywood, and learn to leave the rooster story alone—that’s human interest.

His Girl Friday: publicdomainmovie.net/movie/his-girl-friday

Torchy Blane: rtdna.org/article/torchy_blane_the_most_famous_fictional_journalist_you_ve_never_heard_of

Adela Rogers St. John: time.com/4265954/adela-rogers-st-johns/

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Broadcast News It’s the movie we almost named this podcast after! Holly Hunter and Albert Brooks star in the 1987 classic Broadcast News, from writer/directer James L. Brooks. Tara and Jacob discuss Hunter’s Oscar-worthy line readings, the ethics of style versus substance in journalism, and past crying jags in the office.   

Two duelling Chicago reporters uncover a massive corporate conspiracy, and maybe find love along the way? Romance was never more dangerous (or improbable!) in this 1994 romantic-comedy-drama-thriller-awful movie. Tara and Jacob question why Nick Nolte is portrayed as sex incarnate, ruminate on Julia Roberts' "lost years" in Ireland, and find out how long it takes to walk from Wisconsin to Nevada. There's also some journalism!

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Peak-hotness Kurt Russell stars as Malcolm Anderson, a potential Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami reporter burnt out from the crime beat who only wants to move away to Colorado with his schoolteacher girlfriend. But fate—and a serial killer—intervenes. Jacob and Tara talk about this pulpy journalism thriller, Mariel Hemingway’s eyebrows, and why men in these movies are never happy to be a journalist.

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