Damian and Anne are joined by Emmy-winner Mary Kay Place and we are just gagged. You Might Know Her From Diane, The Big Chill, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Big Love, Lady Dynamite, The Rainmaker, It’s Complicated, and New York, New York. Mary Kay gave us all that sweet Hollywood talk from her start as a writer on Mary Tyler Moore and M*A*S*H, to her decades-long career which spans acting, writing, singing, voiceover (she dubbed a lesser actress in Terms of Endearment) to her first lead role in Diane. We are ready for the Oscar nom, folks. Get on the train.

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Discussed this week:

Mary Kay Place’s IMDB Diane (dir: Kent Jones, 2019)

Co-stars Estelle Parsons, Phyllis Somerville, Andrea Martin, Joyce Van Patten, Deirdre O’Connell 

The Rainmaker (dir: Francis Ford Coppola, 1997)

Got her start on the Tim Conway Comedy Hour

Worked with Norman Lear, wrote for M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Met writing partner, Linda Bloodworth Thomason (Evening Shade, Designing Women) working at CBS. 

Wrote song for All in the Family “If Communism Comes a Knockin….”

Louise Lasser and Greg Mulavey Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (dir: Joan Darling)

Sang w/  Emmylou Harris

Duet w/  Willy Nelson @ 54:28

Christian anti-American songs in Citizen Ruth

The Big Chill (dir: Larry Kasdan, 1983)

Fleabag Season 2

Credit in You and Me and Everyone We Know 

Miranda July and Mary Kay Place 

Mary Kay Place on SNL as host and musical guest

Betty Buckley + Mary Kay Place at Second Stage E Katherine Kerr’s Juno’s Swan

MKP voiceover credits: Julie and Julia (dir: Nora Ephron), Terms of Endearment (dir: Jim Brooks), The Intern (dir: Nancy Meyers).

Glenn Close dubs all of Andie MacDowell’s lines in Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan.

Would most like to go to a funeral with: Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum, Glenn Close

Good friend, Jeanne Tripplehorne is an Okie 

Betty Buckley is so good in Getting On

Why does Nancy Meyers love beige, white, and cream? She just loves it.

Mary Kay on Ellen Barkin’s Captain Kangaroo problem

Mary Kay Place needs an Oscar!