Oeuvre Busters presents...

Welcome to this bonus episode (you're welcome, America!) of Oeuvre Busters! On September 18, 1970, Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Falk appeared on the Dick Cavett Show to promote Husbands. The recording was, to say the least, rather eventful, what with Cassavetes, Gazzara and Falk more interested in ragin' on stage than in answering Cavett's questions. The encounter needs to be seen to be believed! To commemorate this shitshow, and to further our discussion of Husbands, Liam and George have recorded an audio commentary to accompany the show. Topics covered: How drunk are these guys really? Who does the better pratfall, Cassavetes or Gazzara? Also, feet, feet and more feet! (Links below to the show itself and to Cavett reminiscing about the experience in The New Yorker.) Topics not covered: The serious plot hole in Love Actually (2003): how the hell does that annoyingly precocious kid both learn to play the drums in the span of a week AND find himself playing in the school pageant? We don't even see him try out for the band! Who's running this pageant?! It doesn't make any sense, and the movie, otherwise a masterpiece, suffers greatly for it.

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZ6IOJ5ovw

Dick Cavett's Worst show: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dick-cavetts-worst-show

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On this episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss John Cassavetes's Husbands, starring Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, and Cassvetes himself. First and foremost, do these guys know how to rage! But boy do things get cringe worthy really fast in this film, the first half of which is a masterpiece and the second half of which just won't end. Things you will discover while listening to this episode: the title of James Franco's next short story collection; the age at which your legs go; all the sports that Peter Falk loves; proper funeral etiquette; the meaning of Bahama underwear; and why LaCroix is the champagne of seltzer. Also, it's book report time! Topics not discussed in this episode: Virginia Woolf's use of free indirect discourse in Mrs Dalloway (1925) as a formal response to James Joyce's use of stream of consciousness in Ulysses (1922).

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We are back on the Cassavetes train! (But did we ever really get off it in the first place? Hmmm?) On this episode of Oeuvre Busters, and after taking a look at his two studio films, George and Liam discuss Cassavetes's Faces, from the turbulent year 1968. The film stars the magnetic Gena Rowlands, the senescent John Marley, the incandescent Lynn Carlin, and the Herculean Seymour Cassel. Things to consider: first and foremost, who knew that this film was a secret Mad Men prequel? My god, does Liam love Honey I Shrunk the Kids! Can George STFU about Johnny Staccato? Also, did Vin Diesel rip off Seymour Cassel? And welcome our new podcast hosts, Bird and Drill! Topics not covered in this podcast: Thomas Hobbes's critique of Robert Boyle's air pump experiments of 1659, and how these experiments gave rise to new and modern epistemological forms that we today recognise as "science."

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In this episode of Ouevre Busters, George and Liam discuss John Cassavetes's last studio film, 1963's A Child is Waiting, starring the rugged Burt Lancaster and the immortal Judy Garland. Listen to George and Liam constantly mispronouncing Gena Rowlands's name! Gasp in horror as your hosts describe the most terrifying opening-credits sequence ever committed to celluloid! Shake your head in disgust as these two jackanapes discuss the theological implications of which artists might be in hell! Also, does Michael Bay really have all that firepower at his disposal? All this and more in this episode of Ouevre Busters, the podcast that talks about a director's entire body of work, one film at a time. Topics not covered in this episode: the regional and local conflicts within the Eastern Bloc nations during the early 1980s which eventually influenced Gorbachev's championing of "Glasnost," that is, a policy of "transparency" and "openness" to the world at large.

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