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The Rich Eisen Show
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Hey everybody, thrilled to have you back for another edition of just getting started. This time I went deep into my own rolodex as I feel like I do every week because let's face it. You gotta make your life easy and I feel like I want to hear stories from people that I want to hear from selfishly it's my podcast when I get to choose, right? So I went and asked my friend Elizabeth Banks if she could join us because she is a fellow asshole from Massachusetts. I feel like we are a very specific breed. Yes. I'm not wrong. Am I no, I was at a I was at a wake recently and someone was like, hey, are you from Massachusetts? And I was like, yeah, and it was Dennis lane, who's famously for Massachusetts. And I was like, yeah, Dennis lane. And instant connection. I've never met this person. Day in my life, but it was like instantaneous that we both knew we were mast cells. Why do you think people from Massachusetts just know that somebody else is a mass or do we have like a tattoo on our foreheads? Is it the beanie with a pom pom? Like, what is it? No, I think, you know what? I think it is. Massachusetts is mostly a working class town, like the whole state. And I think anybody who makes it out is like, hey, did you make it out? And by the way, you can do that even in Massachusetts, but I think people who make it out and are doing something. In the world, I just think other people from Massachusetts are like, can you believe it? Because mostly, everybody's just people don't leave. I mean, my whole theme. Yeah, my mom got out. My mom went to New York to be with me and then I promptly moved to California. That worked out well. But I just think it's funny. There's something about that Massachusetts mentality that really shapes you as you get older. I feel like the older I get, the more New England I become. Why do you think that what does that mean to you? To me it means my values are very centered. I'm very straightforward, I am less attracted to flash and circumstance and pomp and all that will pomp and circumstance than I was when I was younger. And I just feel like it's a stalwart sensibility. Yeah, I think that's right. I think it's like the pilgrims work ethic. Do you know what I mean? It really takes a lot to cross an ocean. There's rebelliousness in it, obviously. Because we had to rebel in order to do it. But then once people got here and pillaged the land and killed a lot of people. Post genocide. So I do want to recognize that. But there was a really strong wait a minute. You don't think that the pilgrims and the Indians got together. I don't think they shook hands. Because that's what I learned. I still don't limit The Rock and I was like, woohoo. We did it. It's not cool. I'm really glad our kids are not learning that. No, I mean, I think about how I did take our kids to Lexington and Concord. Last summer. When we were back home after camp. And it was, I had forgotten how fun it is to go through that. They were bored for a fair amount of time. Sure. I thought it was fantastic. Oh, me too. I also love a Hancock shaker village or a stir bridge. This is like we're getting local for the masalas. By the way, for the international listeners, you have no idea what we're talking about. So we do apologize. You can learn a lot of American history and a lot of towns in Massachusetts and one of those are some of them that you and I have been talking about. The Revolutionary War was begun there and there's some really cool stuff. One of brilliant two if I see. So how did a kid from Pittsfield get to become a Hollywood superstar? How did this happen? 'cause I always think it's, I always think at the end of the day, I remember even throughout my career, I'm just a kid from south Dartmouth Massachusetts, deep down, right? South damn with Massachusetts. And a lot of people from South Africa stay in south damn it. So the question is, how did that happen? And we can talk about this for the next 5 hours straight, but how does a kid from Pittsfield Massachusetts become an internationally acclaimed director and celebrity and actor, et cetera? You know, yes, also self made millionaire. I do like to I've started to say that because I feel like people, especially women forget that part. And I know that term is also problematic. We're going to have a lot of problematic terms today. By the way, the next podcast I want to become will be called problematic term, which by the way, I kind of like. So you know, I don't know, I don't know if it's if it's something that you're born with or that you learn, but I had a really strong sense. One that I had city blood, you know? I did was not like my town was not big enough for me. And I don't know what that is. I just think you know it inside of yourself that there's something else out there for you. I grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts is a small town. I think there's about 30,000 people in it now. It's actually, so it's not that small of a town. There are smaller towns around it. It's actually the hub of western Massachusetts. But it was a General Electric factory town, my father worked in the factory. And I just knew I wanted something bigger better. And I grew up going to cities. I grew up going to New York and going to Boston. And going to Montreal and Cleveland and Chicago, and so I knew what cities were. And that was for me. That was a life for me. Once I saw it, that's what I wanted. And I just spent my time in school, knowing that if I did well in school, that was my ticket out. I really believe in education for that reason for most people. It can be, it is a pathway to something else in life. And that's what I did. I went to Penn in Philadelphia..
Just Getting Started with Rich Eisen
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on Just Getting Started with Rich Eisen
"Hey everybody, thrilled to have you back for another edition of just getting started. This time I went deep into my own rolodex as I feel like I do every week because let's face it. You gotta make your life easy and I feel like I want to hear stories from people that I want to hear from selfishly it's my podcast when I get to choose, right? So I went and asked my friend Elizabeth Banks if she could join us because she is a fellow asshole from Massachusetts. I feel like we are a very specific breed. Yes. I'm not wrong. Am I no, I was at a I was at a wake recently and someone was like, hey, are you from Massachusetts? And I was like, yeah, and it was Dennis lane, who's famously for Massachusetts. And I was like, yeah, Dennis lane. And instant connection. I've never met this person. Day in my life, but it was like instantaneous that we both knew we were mast cells. Why do you think people from Massachusetts just know that somebody else is a mass or do we have like a tattoo on our foreheads? Is it the beanie with a pom pom? Like, what is it? No, I think, you know what? I think it is. Massachusetts is mostly a working class.
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"Run for office they don't just walk in On a school board. They need to be like you know talked into it and same with directing in any of these sort of big leadership jobs. Often women needs to be asked right. They don't put themselves up for the promotion baid hope somebody promotes them But i will say that. I also the other side of that is that the stakes for women are higher. The consequences of not getting it right are higher for women. I think there is a a real fear that is rooted in our culture. That if you do a bad job does it. Yester- chance and you blew it. And so i wanna recognize that for women to like that that the those steaks feel really high and i get it. I felt it to isolate. And i understand it is it is a impediment to asking for more more money more resources to do things because when we mess up you know they don't they don't let it go. You know it's not like they don't but then at the same time you and i have both had hit and misses in october is and carried on and the well actually stop turning and i think that's also important so yes it is real that we will be shamed maybe a bit more for we will be judged harsha for it and the standards are higher for us to meet at the very very start. We give men more of an opportunity to learn to be apprentices to kind of Work their way up slowly. And then we kind of sometimes dr- panic realized ono. We've not represented this minority or women onto which going to throw one end quickly like wh the deep end. And if she doesn't swim if she sinks a toll then that was confirmation that we shouldn't have ever had a woman in that role or person with disability in that role or modernized person of any kind. They use confirmation bias. And so what's so important. Is that you recognize the system..
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"But there's definitely that may just be that choice but definitely a presence that feels not just in a static but in sort of demean a delivery. That feels different to when you then see them offset and it feels more similar to the melter than i would necessarily expect. But i don't mean that as a way of judgment. It's just something i noticed and i realize i've never seen a director and address. It is it is a rare thing. Where do you continue to grow from like. Are you just trying stuff out onset and trying new styles and trying new acetic for you going back and studying your old favourite films. Did you have study under anyone or did you. Just just jump straight in. But i just wanted that. Because i think that because so many men i know have had the luxury of being given the opportunity to to learn right under someone else stepassin gender. I mean i took every set is an opportunity to learn. So when i was coming up on you know i went to. What's called video village on sets this all his language that we're using thing that you and i understand. I think it's always hard for listeners. Get but the video villages where the director typically the producer in the dp kind of gather while the scene is playing out and buy wasn't in that scene. I always tried to be near them. And sit in the video village and watch how things were playing out in and ask questions And i very gratefully. I worked with really interesting. Awesome directors really early on. Like i worked with steven spielberg catch-me-if-you-can. I worked with sam ramyon spiderman movies and i remember being on the set of spiderman and it was the dp on. That film was bill. Pope who shot. Charlie's angels with me and he is how we met and he and sam raimi were planning a shot Of j jonah jameson Betty brand side the three spider-man's that star toby maguire anyway so is on set and i was watching them. Plan out this shot. And in my mind i was like well. If i were doing this shot i would start the camera here. Put it on the dalai. And i would back out and i would you know bring in more than i would have. People crossed it and does all in my brain but then that's what they set up. They set up the shot. That i thought would be the best way to tell bat moment of that story and i thought to myself okay. Cool like you know something you know. Maybe i'm learning something here and I by the way i had studied. I directed plays. I studied theater. And i have a masters of fine arts in you know in acting and so i worked on. Every level of kind of storytelling studied the classics. The greeks and shakespeare chekhov and ibsen. You know so. I have a i have a i bring some of that skill set with me to my career anyway and then being You just you just learn you know you. Just sit there and just go Okay wow that's how they're doing this. This is going to happen. And the other thing that i just love to say to people always is. You don't know how you don't need to know how to do everything to direct a movie aberration. There's people that now about lighting. I don't know everything about lighting or you know a Stops on the camera. And like i'm not a camera operator. That's their job you. There's a there's a. I think a barrier that people think you have to. You know you. You can't get through because you don't know the technical side of it..
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"I don't know it feels. It feels like an handed tokenism. Sometimes you know that way you get treated like if you tell her minorities big story to tell a big story about someone with a disability. It's the the focus on it. It's the social politics rather than no. This person has an interesting story. And we don't have any of these stories because we don't make just nuance an interesting complex stories about these types of people and so i i sometimes worry the when when they treat every single thing that we do as a feminist political statements rather than an interesting that was to be told. It's a bit like oh that's why you wanted to tell that story because it's trendy or it's it's i think i think it's also related to the fact that i'm a an activist for women a little more openly than other women because i think there are women who make films with female protagonists. And don't get this. I don't know don't end up in the process. Just like she's made some statement or some no. You don't often get asked technical questions. Which i thought was really interesting. That men will be all about lenses. They're using their cinematography style of what they're how they're progressing filmmakers and you don't actually get also about that sort of stuff. What are you asked about. I don't i saw. I mean one of my favorite horrible questions was i had an interviewer me So oh my gosh. You're a mom and he directed this movie and You know it's so much work in your any acted on the television. Show the same time like i don't want to like take a bath. I bought at the time i was like. Do i want to take a bath. Like what and i kind of realized that the interviewer probably needed.
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"Me. I have said in the past that the best engine. I've ever made was my abortion. And then i took it back and i said cutting bangs was the best season i have made and then my and it really did save my life and i wasn't trying to be trite glib about it. It was being very very honest and sincere. Saved my life at the time. In which i did it. I was not mentally stable. I was not ready like it was just all wrong for me. My happiness was at stake. Didn't have what would be needed to gift. A child to bring them up safely. And we'll put my body through that so i shouldn't have to so i talk about. Frankly and they've the headline used was killing my baby and then they used in. Inverted commas was the best decision. I've ever made says actress smell. They were killing. My baby is if i said that right the violent language of that literally violent language of that talking about it as if it is already like the the the way that they try to overly not huron dramatized and like make like it's a living sentient like cherub. Yeah his dad rather than just cells in the body. Yeah wow is just like it's a it's a whole thing and i'm not i'm not saying it's not cells in the body. It's it's it. All i'm trying to say is that they romanticize it in order to push a bath that they have no setup the supporting you through once. That baby comes out of the baby. There is no support system for you if you are a single mother if you are a teenager if you are a victim of a crime there's no there's no guarantee of any fucking support anyway. You're on your own. So let let me be clear if we wanted to do away. With abortion we would have forced reversible the sect amies every male when they turn sixteen seventeen eighteen so when they're ready to become a father day can reverse it and go become a father. That's how you get rid of abortion. There's a lot about this..
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"I'll never forget that interview. That i mean. Obviously we don't know her anymore but trump when he said again. I think there should be some punishment for the woman. And what about the man because he's also partners like no. I don't think any punishment for them. Extra it was one of the things. I think i've ever seen on television. I was like wow. You're saying that in the in the northeast on television. Like that's genuinely how you feel. That's extraordinary and so many people breeding really fucking powerful. People agree with you. So how can anyone out there. Who's maybe just learning about. What a potential serious nightmare and how how very possible. This is to happen in the united states. This could happen. This could this could pretend this is not. It's not out of the round possibility. It was only a matter of decades ago that we first were able to with roe v. Wade make it something that was accessible and safe. I think the important thing should support. How do we those yet. well i know he should. You should support this. Abreu productive writes It's at repo rights on all the social needs But the the other thing is and if you follow me on social media. I post about it pretty regularly. There's there are other organizations. Who are doing that. But the and you can also support emily's list's which advocates for electing a pro choice female office at every level of government so state government all the way up through the federal government. And i find that just even doing that is enough It's important number to that. One in four women will access abortion in their life. So this isn't some rare thing. The other thing is it's made out like it's super controversial. That roe v wade you know. There's so many people are. It's something like eighty percent of americans believe that abortion should remain and legal and safe and the other thing to remember. Is that when you When when abortion becomes illegal. That doesn't mean abortion. Goes away and ends. It just drives abortion underground and makes it way less safe for women to to access and also that this is In the time that we're in right now. And i think everybody's trying to do their anti racism work in their you know their understanding about what systemic issues You know this is absolutely one of them because if you are in. The view are live in certain communities. Abortion is going to. you'll be able to find what And this disproportionately access to abortion or lack thereof. Disproportionately affects low income women women and marginalized communities across america in every community. And so this is also just. It's part of a larger ideas. Is my point confront controls. Gloria steinem talks about this all the time that it's like. Well i always. One of the first moves to. Fascism is to take control of women's reproductive rights and control that buddies eight men have ownership over. Yeah and you know women have been sort of taking care of this since there have been women you know there was family planning always you know you had a baby to carry it. You wanna caravan. You've made sure you didn't have a baby until battling could walk or somebody else could carry it you know. The village was always a part of this and So i this isn't new the other the other thing. It's it's there's a whole history to the abortion rights movement in america in it's very obviously politically motivated and and You know doesn't actually reflect a lot of people's understanding about equality and and morality no but the The minority who believe that we have this rights up very loud. I'm cory latins gently in their papers. There's a headline last week and they'd written. I can't believe this is legal. You know when. You're just too exhausted to sue where they'd written..
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"I think also when there's so many women who go through infertility and it takes a lot of the What's the word. I don't know like the holiness or something that people want to put on pregnancy. Yeah the holiness audit you're like oh it's like a sperm meets an egg and then it divides cells and they implants in the united is really scientific process honestly and i think that when you intend for that to happen. It's wonderful and when you don't intend for that to happen. I don't know i it's not okay to like that was never the intention op. It's funny it was your show. Shrill that i worked where i understood finally how i got pregnant because of i had the sex and the condom broke and so i did the things that you're supposed to do. I went a couple of hours later to the pharmacy. And i went and got the morning after pill and then it didn't fucking work right and i didn't understand how it didn't work and i later. Seven years later watched the show that you'd produce shrill with bryant which is such a good tv show by the way and and she says in it but the pill doesn't work if you're over something like one hundred and seventy five pounds. I was way over. One hundred seventy five pounds when i got pregnant and the pharmacist definitely knew that when he gave me the hill but just didn't tell me he didn't know no. I did not know that there was a potential weight limit on how impactful the fucking contraceptive pill is for someone. So i just took it thinking. I was safe and then boom. I'm pregnant. that is an even. If i hadn't done. I still have to have a baby. But the point is bucket l. If they can't even make the taxes from it like two different manmade things as in man male made inventions didn't fucking work. Why do i have to have a baby will you do. Yeah you know. And i i work with the center for reproductive rights on the chair of their creative council very proudly and they they really do all the legal work to To keep not just abortion legal. But so much we're gone reproductive-health ya'aseh board and maternal house And just inequality in human rights. I mean this is the thing. It's like the world that we're talking about just to clear is is Is the difference between women deciding when and with whom to get pregnant without two parents. One with whom to parents without government's intervention or forced pregnancy or criminal prosecution. These are these are the the the this is the line. That's being drawn right when we talk about these things so there's either either is accessible human rights or its forced pregnancy and or That's those are the sides in this and uncertainty more extreme load of people that they understand why we need to keep our attention on this. And i think for a moment when amy barrett was brought into the supreme court. We were talking about it again and then we start talking about again. We stopped talking about her all the people who are in the supreme court who wants to take away these abortion rights. We don't realize that you can have a miscarriage. Potentially be prosecuted..
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"We can help each other through it. Yeah we can also help us ashley fascinating. And that she was talking about this book called period power which i mentioned to you and we were on the phone by maisy hill. And i'm going to try and get maisy on this podcast to come and explain it further to all of us. But she's written a book. That explains exactly what's happening to our brains and to our to our bodies and how to utilize that strength. Not just like oh. I'm so delicate. Now and i just need help there are some. There are some moments during a cycle where we become superhumans where our brains functions so well off and it's and it's often the same cyclical pattern and so if we could just learn when that time is via this genuinely. You seem to be doing already like from when you were younger. This is before we even knew about this practice. Then we would be able to utilize that for our strength of like. This is my week to just stay home and and chill and oil more creative. This is my work to go get shit done and move house so all of these difficult things or help family members etc if we sought to let play to our strengths and no longer. Look at them as weaknesses but just alterations. I think it could completely transform our lives when a good time to do a job interview. When is a good time. You know what i mean. You could go on a decades. Well when you look what you were saying about the insomnia and how the next morning is same. I have these nights with insomnia and i. I don't need the sleep. My body is telling me like you're fined. You're gonna you're gonna be great on three hours tomorrow and you don't believe it until you've done it enough time you're like oh yeah. I don't even feel tired in backs. I now use those nights to get worked on to like or like watch a movie. I've been waiting to watch. You know. I get the house to myself at three o'clock in the morning. I i don't lay in bed anxiety. Ridden that. I'm going to be exhausted the next morning anymore. Because i actually no i won't be my body is not letting me down. It's just doesn't need sleep tonight. For whatever reason. I don't know i feel super energize. The next day this is this is brady helpful. You having told me that on the phone made me totally fucked. My brain is like. Oh my god this has been happening. I've just been torturing myself every month for like twenty something you.
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"Muck and executes by the way as if you know what i'm saying is like i'm in control like i understand what's happening to me. I make the adjustments in my life. He'd going this is never kept me from a job. It's never cut me from Staying my happy marriage is not kept me from a single thing in my life and you know maybe it makes a moment with someone more tense than i would like it to be. But then take your take responsibility for that. Apologize in syria. And you have twenty-seven mobile says yes exactly and the idea that like somehow. I'm not kate as i'm not as capable on. Those days is ridiculous because that's not true and if anything i think women prove month after months that anything you can do. We.
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
"Hello and welcome to another episode of way with me. Let jamal. i hope you're well 'cause you know who isn't me tonight. I to fight us right out of fight at a fistfight with an instant pop. I don't know if you know what those are. They are electric. Slow cooking boston's and you have to lock your food in and then cook it for a couple of hours and come back to it and it's supposed to give you a food when it's done cooking but mine didn't so we had a bit with tussle. Burned me on has decided to continue holding my food. i'll stage. It will give my fate. And now i'm hungry and i have no other food in of trying to be an adult and start cooking my staff because i've been living on cheese enticed and take-out pizzas and Because james and my flatmates away. No one's head to make me live up to adult standards. So i've just gone like full. Eating chinese takeout in my pants and watching terrible rum comes and dancing disco baptize singing so loud and so badly in the shower not really cheap putting anything away the floor drope all my clothes on the floor have already done the washington wile kitchen's very clean but he's excited child any use the microwave on the toaster made scrambled eggs in the microwave. Lack of with the other day was running late for work. Needed some good protein than facts. And yeah pretty sure. There was no protein By the time it was done being subjected to the nuclear bomb technology. That is a microwave. Anyway i decided to try and grow up tonight on. This is what happened was attacked by an instant. Poll to never again. I'm going straight back to takeout and cheese on toast lifestyle from tomorrow and no one's hits. The judge may not to even know part from the father..
SmartLess
"elizabeth banks" Discussed on SmartLess
"Right now singly. Now jason sing though your song. That was great and wonderful. Because if we don't talk about us on we have to pay for fame and what is wonderful thing. Stop singing start talking. What is what is the on. That song is from from hair. No that's from fame for. That's what i meant. Yeah hey how about you remake fame. I remember that. I write with our tomorrow. That was that alan parker. Oh that's a great segue. That is because i talk about fame on my podcast. My body my podcast exclusively on audible and because fame literally rocked my life when i saw fame in so many ways and not because of his about a group of people who like really wanted to pursue the Live in the at to work in the ads It was live forever. Who wanted to learn how to fly because of those things. Even though it was inspired no is because irene cara is topples a movie if you guys remember that part oh we do never knew that well they you know there was always the tv version. I got to watch. I got to watch it on. Hbo back in the day. When h was like a new old enough. I was in the theater and we say and we got like we. I'm my family can never afford. Hbo but we would get the free weekends. And i'm pretty sure. Hp that that It was on one of the free weekends. So i watched it. And irene. Cara is topless and i do an entire pockets up. I'm not. I'm not joking. Every episode is about fame. Yeah i was being about iron. Cara specifically i was being bullied back then was really skinny and i was very behind puberty. I still am coming along. This is the whole point. They never came along. The divorce tool has dropped never came along. And i was being bullied by this girl in erica and she heard the insult that she hurled a meeting after school. Which you out on the way home was you're gonna have cone boobs and i didn't know what that meant like like like Madonna's madonna truth or dare come out yet. That wasn't the thing i didn't know. A cone shaped boob was at the time. Because i just looked at sports illustrated swimsuit edition those rawal row. Nobody comes in sports illustrated and And then i saw irene cara and she she has very she had. I don't know. I haven't seen her body in a very long time. But in fame when she was topless she had some very adorable Small breasts that were little conical. And i kind of freaked out. I was like that's what the bully meats and And i was like that might. Okay got to me and at the time. Those were unacceptable boobs. Why i mean what why all our then makes no sense so dumb. It makes sense. Of course everybody's oranges every body beautiful. And so that the podcast really is about how like why these things seep into our brains and why we get this messaging that like you should look like the cover of sports illustrated rive never been able to fill out that bikini top on. Okay you guys at my very first big move. That you mentioned was what had american summer i show up. David wayne's like we weren't as bikini. I guess it on. And then the first agent i ever met in la not zion. Newark agent as i said when i went to l. a. and i interviewed this agent. I won't name him but he was like if you're not getting boob job. Oh lord is he still in the business. Yeah is he still in. The business was like well big gigs. Kinda up 'cause. I made this movie. What had american summer that. I'm sure tons and tons of people are gonna see by the way. No one saw that movie for like twenty years. Like everyone's gonna see this movie. And i'm already in a bikini tops alike now. I think it'd be weird if i like. Subtly like hop a d. cup after just showing off these little babies times is going to write a story a back leg. It's going to become a thing. And i can't have that happen. Meanwhile all i was thinking to myself was no. I'm not having surgery. And i don't know why we're talking about it. Fucking kidding fucking. it's not even just. Hollywood is just this environment we live in. I have like body dismore yet. Myself cones will remake. It don't remake. now it's perfect. Don't you think that like for people who hold onto things like that. Obviously that had an effect on you and somebody else said that to you and you held onto it for such a long time. Isn't it funny at some point at some age. I don't know what it is. We go close. I hold on like who gets shit about any of that cares. I like me. I like my body. Whatever i mean surely luckily you you hit fuck it like like fifteen years ago right. I hit fuck it. I'm still working. Fuck it. But i'm almost there by the way i remember one of the first places i went on the warner brothers lot. I was walked past. All of your porsches on will and grace like people didn't hate us already. yeah man. that's that's the life. I sold mine in nineteen sean sold his but it was like nineteen ninety nine just to so will and grace became a hit. The same thing happened to will and grace has happened to friends. Which was we became a hit when they had reruns over the second summer. So the network recognized this to award us reward us. They gave us like four porsches for the cast now. And you're like. Oh wow that's it's it's incredible and then you add up how much it costs for an ad in the usa today and it was too biased. For porsches was cheaper than an ad and we got more press from getting the cars. I i always said to our friend who ran into silverman when he ran. Nbc go back to giving dumb actors cars because it's way less than a fucking raise and they're gonna thank you forever and every time you negotiate. They're going to say like yeah but they must be nice to me. So i don't wanna push it. I must say though. It was very nice generous thing. But yeah sean. I remember when you got those. When you got those portions and as as actors. I was in the same position i was living in new york coming out to. La at work. When i could and whatever and they're like and then i got a pilot was on a show and you guys were on the air and did a show for. We got cancelled after two episode two airings. Call the mike o'malley show so we were at the up front with you. Guys like the the makes the best in in low. Yeah my first of all. Just a second for mike. O'malley when all time greats when all time.
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"elizabeth banks" Discussed on SmartLess
"'cause you're you're a great. Yes so we dodgeball was actually a good. It was a good model for pitch in that. It's about a group of people who take something very seriously. There should never be taken as seriously as they take it right and the coming together of governess really a sports movie kind of dressed up. It's a comedy dressed up in a sports movie. Dressed up in a musical is low. Pitch perfect is and so anyways. We got those book proposal. That mickey rabkin row He was a writer at g. q. At the time and he'd actually interviewed me for g. q. Like two weeks before something. So that kind of synchronicity. I always find like. It's like a signpost in hollywood like oh. You should probably do do this. Because you've just had a signpost and we actually didn't get the whole town is somebody else had the book proposal as well and somehow we got universal and so we took it out and we needed a writer and i just started doing thirty. Rock will knows about that. K kannan was one of the verses. Dirac and i was runs with jason her then husband. They're no longer together. Lots of things have happened. In all of these people went onto make blockers incredible funny writer in finance issues. One of tina phase like project is on thirty rock at the time and they have made acapella jokes on thirty rock so i knew that she knew in so we ended up. I called her. And i was like Do have you ever heard about the policies low. I think she on the phone thing. And i knew we've found it and she came to our house in la from new york. We sat around the dinner table. We put together a pitch. We went out with an we sold it. And that's what happened to as. Was there a moment when you were gonna play One of the one of the singer girls. No no no. I never i was. We wrote the role that i play in the movie wrote for kristen wag. Actually we let her way and probably one of you guys. And then and i ended up doing it. With john. Michael higgins because i had worked with with michael higgins yards and he was doing he the the chris guest stuff that he does. Who's a great template for your for your stuff to and he did one of the greatest improv that i'd ever seen live like in reality. We were on the set of a very not good movie called fred klaus von starving that maybe and five oscar winners just if we're counting and And then me and john mcguigan so we were making this movie and it. The scene was vince. And john michael higgins in a bar. And vince started improving avow teaching john how to womb Which is what happens in the movie and so. There's not a lot of people better than vince at at this win but to say but john so vince is hoping that so it starts like this. He's like listen. Listen by ear in a mexican standoff this woman you gotta you gotta bring to the table and you gotta you gotta figure out how to like jabba about in unanimity goes just goes on non vince way that he does is genius and everything whatever and he kinda pauses and john michael higgins like look back at me. I'm off camera over here. Look zakibian the transplant getting cash. She does not look mexican they did not yes and yet did pick up the ball there or did he just say well. You just ruined the baby. You ruin the improv. We kind of fell out. Honestly the whole crew fell out. I mean it was just the per. It was like he held it. You know in improv. When you grab it and you hold it and you go like. Where's my opening words. My opening and he just held onto it the whole time any dropped it right at the exact moment tracy's nodding. That's that's really cool. That's a great still for the perfect. Sorry so here's the other thing that you may be surprised. Surprise are not surprised so scotty. My husband's got an eye. We live what yeah. He's sorry shawn's gay. Can we record for one second so we we like game shows were old people like game shows we watch stuff all all night long and and you know and it goes without saying we watch you impress your luck all the time because we we just can't get enough and you're so great on it and we love it and i want to ask you. What made you want to do it because you're so good at it and also what do you think about this trend of big talent like yourself. Doing game shows like wheel are not jamie foxx. Alec baldwin yourself. A lot of people are doing these. And it's all all works. Like i love all of them i did. I actually was inspired partly by will and his and when he did relaunched the show which was going on. Yeah the gun show. When i was on the mike myers of it. All was so incredible. I feel like we can tell stories about asteroid. it was pretty. Wild myers was disguised as the host. Was there ever an episode. When he pulled the mask off like doug is no longer into the prosthetic and no it was so cool because we were like obviously we thought it'd be great to get mike. And then he was like. I'll do it but i want to do it in this character and sony's like he wants to do in the character. I'm like yeah. Yes that's how i can't see hard enough. Yes let's go and but they were all really cool and the abc where you do your show too. They're all really cool about it. And of course. I got to feel like you're some at some point. People are going to look back and go. You know. Mike myers hosted a game show in character arizona. And go what right. Nobody's making a big big anyway so you did come and do it. Very gracious came and did an awesome in in participated in that. And then but you're already talking to them about doing. Press your luck at that blind talking about doing a name that tune and like rebooting name that tune which didn't end up coming to fruition but then out now but and now not with me talking about it and then yet and then pressure came on. I loved fresher. Lock growing up. I was a latchkey kids to go home after school in like to watch the nobody thing is i loved it so i was already a fan and i went to work. I remember the first day. I really didn't know what to totally expect. I i was in the same blackouts. You're going to be in a block of alec. Baldwin and steve harvey an me unpressured luck. And i i love those two gentlemen. I love their shows and i thought okay. Well i can't. That's pretty good. I can't i'm.
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"elizabeth banks" Discussed on SmartLess
"And now back to the show. What would those first couple of years in new york like being a waitress and going from edition audition and china like have a social life to was did. The city did you. Was that easy for you or a loved every second of it. I did not sleep. So i my first summer in after dramas going went to move to new york. And i was a of the waitress at prohibition on eighty four in columbus on the upper west side and and i did some bartending there as well and i worked its woman named bonnie. Bonnie was To sunny to be a flight attendant she was like an ax model reservation. How do you study you have to go to like the school like the delta school in texas and learn how to be a flight attendant so bonnie had a bunch of animals. I never understood anyone who had a pet in new york city but whatever so she had a bunch of ants like a dog and cat and a bird or something and she started going away and she had a boyfriend that she was day at and so she said you can move into live in my studio apartment with these three animal. Watch my animals and will will when she is back so there's a bed in a couch in. If she was in town she got the bad. And i got the couch but if she was flying like doing her overnight than i got the bed and then after a while we just like sleep in the bed and so the main thing that people like to hear about my sorry. I would literally sleeping in a bed with bonnie the bartenders slash Eggs model her dog and we would just sleep in a bed together on one hundred In columbus and that was my life for like six months. And then i. My now husband moved back to new york and we moved in together anyway. Doubt those are my days. I lived with a flight attendant. I was a bartender and a waitress. I want on my auditions. I had a roller bag. That i would carry around because you by i walked around in heels back then this is like sex in the city time so you felt like you weren't a real woman if you couldn't walk near city streets in high heels so i walked around in high heels. I had all my changes. All my clothes might changes from editions. Because i i just brought doctor and the medicine for a lawyer. And then i did for your headshot your head. Shot was in four quadrants type. Ninety seven ninety eight ninety nine. Did you ever see me. Rollerblading by did you ever see rollerblade rollerbladed. I went to central park and like did. The rollerblading fame played hockey. And i would rollerblade uptown and then go buy. And then i'd if i'd see some a girl on extreme cornet kinda slow down like she is paying attention to the guy on the rollerblades. What did you say well let me paint the picture here. So you got a hard look. They're like there's a lot of bunch of smoke in the room right. she is and then what. You're dragging one of your skates behind you to slow down a little bit the bus and then doing that thing where i look out i just go and just answering question. That was not asking. Just go probably and so you. Would you have a plastic hockey. Stick sticking out of your backpack elizabeth. So hey elizabeth. So you're doing. You're doing a ton of commercial stuff. You're doing i mean you're you're killing it in the commercial world you pay off. I was gonna say so you pay off your student. Loan best feeling in the world. I paid off my student. Loan with like one crest white strips commercial day. This big honking teeth. I've chocolates for t- their ginormous and really dislike my teeth and now that they paint love soon. Gross was always very all american. These teeth to the before shot. Go ahead well. I was just i was gonna flash all the way forward to like what the view is like on the top of the mountain. I mean you are. You're blazing honestly you are blazing trails for for your peers. Your top of the world with acting with directing with producing Just as and ceilings. All over the place i mean did you. Do you have perspective on that. And i know it probably makes you uncomfortable to to admit it or address it but it it really. Is you know super impressive. What's going very yeah. Thanks guys No i mean. Yes i do. I have presented on now. I really don't actually. I just i don't know i i'm not kidding when i say when you've committed to making hollywood your place of employment mean is has not me. What else are we supposed to do. You get to the point of no return. You're like why have no other skills. That i know no other people. I haven't done anything else. Like these are all the people i know they create things we put them out into the world so i just thought well how else can i. How can i take advantage of all these dim dogs that i've met along the way. What else can we do. You know i'm one of those. I'm one of those guys who shocker. i love pitch. perfect right. does and one of the greatest signs that your movie is a classic and stands the test of time. Is that when you see. When you're scrolling through the guide you have to flip it on and watch whatever wherever it is in the movie and you just sit there and watch and that do that every single time i see that movie and sequel of it and so what is the genesis of pitch perfect. How did it come about. How did you get involved. Like what's the story of that from idea to script screen. And then the second one to thank you sean I so my husband. Who's my business partner my partner in all things max. You guys have all I'm sure max wrote a book about fantasy football. Which before fans football was really a big deal. He wrote a book fantasy football and through that he met a really fun book agent and he was out to drinks with book asian in new york. Who said yeah. I just moved over to this imprint. We're doing these silly books. And i think i'm gonna i think i'm going to put together a book about college acapella. It's called hitch. Perfect and max are laughing because acapella was a really big thing at penn where we went to school go really and yeah there was like ten groups. I mean they were there. Overwhelms exactly too much acapella. There was exactly so and my husband has willed answered. Which is i mean those people take it so seriously already going to be funny documentary about everything was awka like i'm really come out at. You could be here. What he's it has an adverb. Yes oh yeah days for everything. So it was like dodgeball. Member was one of you in that movie sure to blackout when he made that. That was actually during a lunch hour while we were shooting arrested development commentator right cotton or skater or something..
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"elizabeth banks" Discussed on SmartLess
"Burst into tears because i thought i knew the right decision by also additonal scare. I was really scared not to have money. 'cause i was eating like a bagel a day. But wait a minute i. I'm sorry. I may have missed it. Why what was the main reason you turn it down to stay in school just. I wanted to finish school one but more than anything. I'm not kidding. I thought to myself if i can get a soap on day one. What can i get on day to western mass getting. Yeah and then. How long was it before your next offer. I got a commercial like a week later. While good good you just can't write signed with the one agent who said to me lebanon. Don't take that job like i think he. Because i didn't know anything about the business either so remember. I went to new. York did a showcase from drama school. Thinking i'm going to be like a chorus girl on broadway and my dream my dream. My dream was not margaret. Show action of sean during johnson. I wanted sean stream to and so. When i got offered soap opera which was not my dream but it was just like an amazing money job in a four into new york and all that. But it wasn't my dream. And i thought away i don't. I don't think that's what i wanna do. And at the time everybody was doing member scream was like the big mooney. Party of five was on campbell. Was like my like dream. Sure i remember thinking. I don't need to do the soap opera. I actually do wanna keep pursuing the things that i wanna do. And maybe i'll be on broadway. Maybe and the commercial world was also something i knew nothing about. You could make a lot of money commercials in those days. And i did. I hit off all my student loans with will arnett would have been fine to how many goddamn commercials do you record in that booth of yours right there. Why graduated from no more drama school. Sorry to interrupt. But just don't know if. I forgot to mention that. This podcast is sponsored by their jason. Yeah i know how you wanna look like. 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"elizabeth banks" Discussed on SmartLess
"Voluntary school. It doesn't make any sense to learned. Here's what i learned guys. I learned about what kind of alcohol highlights i learned about drug use. I learned how to get into a club in philly. Which i learned about i went to my first jazz club which was amazing. Underground jazz club in philadelphia. That's the stuff that matter. That's why not that. I met my husband. Sweet sweet man. that's good. I like college with the arts. I have scholarship set up at the illinois state university where i went to theater and college graduates. Sean hayes thank you well. i didn't. I got an honorary doctorate. But i never graduated but but i think it's important for the arts because it's where everybody gathered for the first time to really kind of become vulnerable and learn from each other and grow and figure out where your places sealed of theater arts that that this is where i'm coming from like you can't really you can't fail in college right like it's only you. Can you learn as much as you apply yourself to learn. But there's no. There's no obligation to score a certain number on a certain number of tests like high school. It's all self-imposed that greatest part about right so everything is self imposed. I think that's maybe everything in life. I mean other than like you have to pay bills so you have to make some money to pay bills but like really so much of this pressure on ourselves is also post in the grew up. I grew up in western massachusetts in pittsfield massachusetts. By the way how many people from your high school went to pan just me. Then i don't know maybe a couple other people eventually went there. Somebody public high school guys like units small where we literally went into the fields and tips cows when we drank too many beers. You're gonna want your kids to be academics like you or you're gonna say in. It's not that big a deal. You just learn how to get into clubs in go to like jazz functions. Well i mean. I did learn some cool things too. I mean i never studied certain. You know and i picked up a love for learning things and i had access. You know my my. I really felt lucky to have the access. I had the amazing professors. That i you know. Got to learn from and some of them were total assholes. I remember this one professor. Who is you know. Just lay things. Like i needed to miss a class for a family thing and i love my family and she was like too bad. You're in college now like you're over eighteen and you don't get to use either this or that and i remember having to make that kind of decision for the time i my family. She was running seats. Tick nick my grade and it was like. Wow okay this. I'm gonna die. Think the world of you. But i'm on her side made a bad too because i think we live in a world where there's too much of that especially in our business. I gotta go. I gotta go visit to fucking bad special a special dispensation. 'cause you like family f. off did you go back to massachusetts when after college did you. Go straight to la. I did not go straight me. I did more fucking school. Mfa i gotta match sorry say. I went to drama school. I went to draw mobile and honestly went to drama school partially. Because i thought maybe i wanted to be an actor but where i'm from. Nobody is an artist. That's not a career. That's not something anybody does. True vodka to herodotus. We got a lot of that. You're you're absolutely right however you you. You're just reminded me of something. I went to an event in massachusetts not that long ago and this guy got up with our with the mass accent and he was like this is elizabeth banks. She on my high school. If you were little different maybe you went to the you know you the different kid for the ad they did the i was in the at but that was not something you did where i'm from if you've got a master's in drama school does that mean that you thought okay. I might be an actor. But if i am an actor it's going to be like a serious dramatic actor was comedy even on your radar communism raider but did degree with. Because i didn't know how to go to new york city and get an act. I didn't understand what was step one. I'm not even giving a lot of people. Don't don't show up and i get a job as a waitress and then what happens. Where what is there an office or a phone number that you call you. Go to the open calls in backstage or what did you do. So what did you tell us how it works. I didn't have to do any of that. Because i went to drama school. And when you go to drama slow bay to a showcase as you meet agents and then they call you when they go. Do you want me to represent you. And i go. Yes lease them. And then you start acting like the next day and literally that slap you went on started booking stuff my very first days. I did my showcase and the next morning. I got asked to audition for a soap. I think it was as the world turns and then That afternoon they called and said do you wanna be on the soap opera for two years and i had not even graduated. Act at and you. So you did it. I did not do it. what do you mean. And she's leeann banks men can interface where she gets onto year gig and turns them down based on what based on part of it. A few things one. I wanted to finish school i. They were like come tomorrow. Like you're on this show tomorrow. I now know as i've spent a long time in the business. I produce things you make things you can. I cast a lot of things. And sometimes they're just looking for the person and if you walk in and solve it you're literally hired and you show up the next day right that every once in a while. So that's what happened. They had been looking for somebody to play this role for a couple of weeks. And then i happen to walk in the door. And they were like. It's gonna be you. And i said actually it's not going to and i remember i was on a payphone. Because that's how old we all are. I was on a payphone in new york city by lincoln center. I called my mom. I had massive student loans. Like.
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"elizabeth banks" Discussed on SmartLess
"Sean. Are you aware of of the damage. It that blue light can do to. Your is like these blue blocker about talking about the computer light like at night or something correct. Yeah bendon rob have blue light blue blockers on and I have glasses that my kids wear. Sometimes when they're on their screen bought it for our kids. To and and i just don't know or amanda did and our case don't see we don't have kids together. I keep trying to tell you that. Keep denying we don't wait a minute. Is it really true. Because i like. I had a doctor friend of mine. Say that like don't look at the laptop when you're in bed or the phone because keep you up or it doesn't make me sleep. We'll see but rob just told me that it drains you So does he does during myer. Does it keep you up. Does it destroy your is looking to screen like at least thirty minutes before you go to bed it. It affects your sleep because it has to do with Brain activity although you guys should be. You're not seeing yourself up for an online. We're not going to see a lot of brain activity if we haven't seen any yet all of a sudden surge or maybe too much blue light. When i was a kid could be. Maybe that's the problem something. What time you guys go to bed. I need better sleep hygiene. I need to start going to bed at same is disgusting but what what does that mean what you sleep dirty. What do you know sleep hygiene is just making sure you sleep better like a better yourself routine is called sleep hygiene. What do you guys sleep in. You guys sleep in chinese pajamas. And one of those kind of like cohn pajama hats. A little tassotti with the fetus. Candle i carry my candle. The dead with a hand in front of it so the wind does tv. He looks like a tv husband from the nineties. In in like in like pajama bottoms. In a in a nondescript t-shirt sure right yeah kids. Let's shut those lights out or half hour pasture bedtime. No you're supposed to by the way. This is what i read between ten pm and two. Am is when the best sleep is supposed to happen. I don't know how your body knows the our time. But that's what i heard. It sounds like a weird website. Well you know. According to folger's the best part of waking up. Yeah the best. Hey no for real though. What time do you want to get your guest. We have an incredible guest. Who's being very patient. But what do you stay jason. What time do you go to bed. I go to bed at a probably no later than ten thirty then then. That's that's where it's really gotten away from me sean. Okay so wait. Listen just because you said that. When i did the kenny rogers christmas tour and he sang He was able to make this along and can't he used to sing christmas in america. America the this time of year right. We'd be backstage. And he would go christmas in america and we would go is full. Jews in your he was he was right though. Kenny was right. Hair comes islands in the stream. That is what we are. You know who wrote that song dolly parton nope the bg jennifer warren. The bg's yeah glad we've got some extra openers. I realized that i would describe. Our guest is an island in the stream is person is a is a true eddie brooke shields of chita rivera. No no not guessing not just the cast of the blue lagoon man. So i guess is a multi hyphen it or just a multi-talented person who i. I became aware of in film from the early two thousands. That was very popular at the time. There's directed by a guy called david. Wayne it was a movie co went out american summer. She then went on to play in a million movies Some of the biggest hits but then became an incredible director. I got to know her during the lego movies Really got to know her and then she went on started directing his she. She directed is now the biggest gross opening ever for first time director with pitch perfect to this person. Not a lot of people know this but you are the wife of david cross. We just learned on our episode with david. I was just listening to david cross. I've said he said that his wife who i think sean you said that. That's that's true. Actually david cross are husband and wife. How eagle is not a legal thing. Now look at the lizard. Haven't seen for a long time. I'm sorry i'm such a disappointment. After you're hoping brooke shields just listen can have love for everybody. We have loved happy. You're here you're one of those people. I always feel like when i see you. You make me smile. I'm always happy to see. Yeah it's you're also one of those rare fines in hollywood a girl who's absolutely unbelievably hilarious and unbelievably gorgeous at the agreed love agreement. You're calling me a girl. Sean is the greatest compliment that you could be an listener. This is the first time. I think anybody's ever worn something halfway decent to do. She's got a very nice blouse on share contra hair. It's not for you guys. I'm going to be totally honest. I had another thing before this. I wish i was in my pyjamas. Like the footed the jam. What was the thing. Can you say. I was doing a panel. That stacey snider is another big wig business four. We both went to the same university and we did a panel for an election alumni thing for penn. Unc university of pennsylvania aren't school. I went to penn yes. I went to pan in philadelphia and so two stacey snider so did a lot of bunch of hollywood types and steve graduated with honors. Did you not i. Who's done some research. Will the wikipedia page. come on. tell us well on the wicky wicky. i don't make maybe there's some latin words that are incredible on my degree. Yes they was. Your was your degree in in theater. Or in communications in also theater but Yeah the school. They're not a big theater arts program at penn. Come ask you question here. Because i did not go to come as a surprise to a lot of people but i don't here it is this. Is this a good dumb question from a good dumb guy. How hard is college. And i mean. What an episode. Thanks for joining us. I do. I do mean it now. From what i understand i this is not a bit okay first of all. I didn't even graduate high school. I dropped out of college. It should be noted but my understanding that there are two years of general. Ed where right which is sort of the college level history college level english college level math. That's for two years. Which sounds like a nightmare. Okay and then. The last two years is my understanding. Is that you get to study your minor and your major so you know i want to become a roofer or i wanna become you know whatever the hell it is you. I'm just saying you can kick whatever occupation you want and study your yards off about it. And there's there's no there's so that sounds fun but those first two years sound really difficult. Is that the way it goes now. Really i mean why question i know but let me say this harder. I'm kind of with. I'm kind of with jason. Because you know this long kind of idea about is college her necessary. You really does any additional.
Ghost Town
Story of the Cocaine Bear
"It's a tale of drugs planes parachutes in one. Unluckier this epic crime story centered in knoxville. Could soon be coming to the big screen. I read sometimes. Entertainment trades to see what's happening and i saw that elizabeth banks it is in the public arena. This information is out. There is developing a movie about cocaine. Bear and i vaguely remembered something about cocaine bear. I couldn't really place. It did some googling and went down outrageous wormhole that we're going to talk about today. Cocaine beer was briefly. Famous in one thousand nine hundred five when it was found dead in the wilds of kentucky after eating roughly fifteen million dollars worth of cocaine but that is just the tip of the iceberg on september. Eleventh nineteen eighty five and old man in knoxville. Tennessee woke up and went outside where he found the corpse of a man in his driveway. The body had goggles on. It was wearing a bulletproof vest and was strapped to a parachute. The body also had some other interesting features a couple of handguns and fourteen million dollars worth of cocaine on just your everyday morning in knoxville. The man phoned the police and when they arrive they identified the dead body as undersea thornton. The second the wealthy son of an elite kentucky horse breeding family former paratrooper narcotics officer and lawyer. Who left all these jobs. Because they were too boring he left them all to become a drug smuggler. For a ring. Known as the company thorn had received a purple heart after an injury in the dominican republic. He was deployed there during the revolution thornton for real dot board of his life and decided to. It's like the bigger rush. Decided to do more dangerous work than he already was doing which was already very dangerous. On september ninth thornton embarked on a mission with bill leonard. His karate instructor turned bodyguard. The pair hopton assessment for four airplane and flew to mont monteria colombia with plans to pick up four hundred kilograms of cocaine and smuggle it into the us
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Can Elizabeth Banks Do 'Cocaine Bear' Justice?
"So Elizabeth Banks is directing a new movie called cocaine bear. And it's based on a true story from 1985. It's a fucking doozy. Back in those days, 85, the head of the height of the cocaine era, a black bear, stumbled upon a duffel bag, filled with 70 pounds of blow. It's worth $15 million. And some forest in Kentucky. The poor bear comes around and says, holy shit, a bag of food for me. You know, they can smell things in mile away. He scarves it all down, and he dies of an overdose. Right near the bed. I mean, he just fucking dropped dead. His body was found months later. Right next to the bag, which was empty. So what happened is the drugs had been dropped from an airplane by a local smuggler. This guy that was once a former comp who was also killed at the hit in his head while he was parachuting out of the plane. And 9 more bags of cocaine were recovered. I mean, Jesus Christ. Maybe I spoil the movie, but I don't think so, because there's a lot of angles to this and they're not quite saying what angle they're going to take. Is it going to be told from the people who find the dead bear from that angle from the angle that a guy jumping out of the plane? Who knows for the cops who went to try to solve the case? I don't know. But it's going to be produced by Phil lord and Chris Miller. These guys did Star Wars story, The Lego Movie, Spider-Man, cloudy with a chance of meatballs. They got a good imagination. But Elizabeth Banks in the director's chair, you know what? She did pitch perfect to terrible movie unless you would shake and it's just not even like a cool chick, a corny chick, she did the Charlie's Angels, which was fucking awful. So I don't know why she's getting a third chance. Everybody loves this woman. I like her as an actress, but I don't know who's going to play the doomed drug smuggler. I don't know who's going to play the bear for that
Z Morning Zoo
Kentucky's 'Cocaine Bear' reportedly will be subject of Universal Pictures movie with Elizabeth Banks
"There's a movie coming out called Cocaine Bear. And if the title sounds bizarre, it's nothing compared to what the story is actually about. So you might know who Elizabeth Banks is. She was in the hunger games, and she's been in a bunch of other movies, too. She is directing this movie called Cocaine Bear. Now, if you heard of a movie called Cooking there, you probably think it's on SciFi Channel alongside shark, NATO or movies like that Cocaine bear is actually a true story. It's a thriller based on back in 1985, a drug smuggler named Andrew Thornton. Dropped a duffel bag filled with £70 of Coke from his plane over Georgia on the way back from a drug run to Colombia. So he went down. Got the drugs. He's flying back. He found out that this plane was flying too heavy, so he had to push the cocaine off the flight. And when he did it landed in the woods. And I guess ah Bear found it much and ate the cocaine. No and died. Oh, no, but it's even weirder. So he was a former narcotics cop who started smuggling so he went to the dark side and the run that is in the movie is took place on September 11th Weird 1985. He dropped because it was too heavy for the plane. Some time after the Georgia dump. This guy tried to jump out of the plane as well. But as he was trying to jump out of the plane, he got caught in his parachute and fell like a stone landing in some guy's driveway and Knoxville, Tennessee. He died on impact. The plane crashed 60 miles away in North Carolina when his body was discovered he was wearing a bulletproof vest. Gucci loafers, night vision goggles. He had 15 million worth of Coke, 4500 and cash, gold, Krugerrands knives and two pistols. Wow. Holy crap. The body of the Bear was discovered three months later, along with 40 open plastic containers and cocaine residue. They think the bear ate the cocaine. And there's the end of the bear. And that's your
The KFBK Morning News
Wait, the Cocaine-Bear Movie Is Actually Called Cocaine Bear?
"Is Johnny Cash, of course, and his song Cocaine blues in 1985 1 Bear had the cocaine blues and now it's gonna be a movie about it. Don't sound so bizarre. Elizabeth Banks is directing a movie called Cocaine Bear and then new film produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller is based on a true story of a Kentucky bear who died of a cocaine overdose in 1985 like a bear a real big a real bear. So what happens happened with the You know, the people who are carrying the drugs were in a plane. They dumped it, They don't the cocaine out of the plane. Then the guy tried to hop out of the PLO plant. Brother with a parachute tried to hop out, hit his head on the plane. So he died because he couldn't open his parachute. Meanwhile, this bear gets ahold of it eats the cocaine dies. They find the bear. They're trying to ferret. Why died, They figured it out. And they named him Pablo Escobar, and now he's on display. He's on display. So anyway, there's the whole movie for you. Yeah, that's a fascinating story. I'm not sure that's a 90 or 120 minute movie. We're gonna do it. I guess they're gonna be Oh, blow. Esca Bear. Look it.
The Mason Minute
Game Show Hosts (MM #3587)
"The with kevin mason because of the covid nineteen pandemic more and more. Tv networks are turning to game shows to kind of fill in the spaces that regularly scheduled programs that fit in. Because let's be honest. It's easier to do a game show. You don't need as many people and it's a whole lot cheaper to produce. Sometimes i've noticed lately that game show hosts are people whose names we may know. Name that tune has jane gronkowski joel. Mchale was doing one of the game shows on abc as elizabeth banks. And we've got leslie. Jones doing a version a supermarket. Sweep i have no problem with actors doing game shows but it's so different having them. They don't seem comfortable. I remember the good old days of game shows when we were growing up. It was usually former radio. Deejays people like tom kennedy. And then there are. People like alex back who actually started out as actors that became game show hosts. It's amazing. how the category of game show host doesn't really exist anymore. Maybe it will but for right. Now you're gonna be dealing with uncomfortable. Celebrities hosting game shows on tv until something changes. I don't necessarily have a problem but oh man do sometimes. They made me feel uncomfortable.
The Mason Minute
Game Show Hosts (MM #3587)
"The with kevin mason because of the covid nineteen pandemic more and more. Tv networks are turning to game shows to kind of fill in the spaces that regularly scheduled programs that fit in. Because let's be honest. It's easier to do a game show. You don't need as many people and it's a whole lot cheaper to produce. Sometimes i've noticed lately that game show hosts are people whose names we may know. Name that tune has jane gronkowski joel. Mchale was doing one of the game shows on abc as elizabeth banks. And we've got leslie. Jones doing a version a supermarket. Sweep i have no problem with actors doing game shows but it's so different having them. They don't seem comfortable. I remember the good old days of game shows when we were growing up. It was usually former radio. Deejays people like tom kennedy. And then there are. People like alex back who actually started out as actors that became game show hosts. It's amazing. how the category of game show host doesn't really exist anymore. Maybe it will but for right. Now you're gonna be dealing with uncomfortable. Celebrities hosting game shows on tv until something changes. I don't necessarily have a problem but oh man do sometimes. They made me feel uncomfortable.
The Mason Minute
Game Show Hosts (MM #3587)
"The with kevin mason because of the covid nineteen pandemic more and more. Tv networks are turning to game shows to kind of fill in the spaces that regularly scheduled programs that fit in. Because let's be honest. It's easier to do a game show. You don't need as many people and it's a whole lot cheaper to produce. Sometimes i've noticed lately that game show hosts are people whose names we may know. Name that tune has jane gronkowski joel. Mchale was doing one of the game shows on abc as elizabeth banks. And we've got leslie. Jones doing a version a supermarket. Sweep i have no problem with actors doing game shows but it's so different having them. They don't seem comfortable. I remember the good old days of game shows when we were growing up. It was usually former radio. Deejays people like tom kennedy. And then there are. People like alex back who actually started out as actors that became game show hosts. It's amazing. how the category of game show host doesn't really exist anymore. Maybe it will but for right. Now you're gonna be dealing with uncomfortable. Celebrities hosting game shows on tv until something changes. I don't necessarily have a problem but oh man do sometimes. They made me feel uncomfortable.
WBZ Midday News
Ben Platt named Hasty Pudding's 2020 Man of the Year
"The ward winning actor and musician Ben Platt was honored by the hasty pudding theatricals says it's twenty twenty man of the year yesterday plateau of dear Evan Hansen and pitch perfect at twenty six years old is the youngest recipient in the fifty four year history of the award former winners of man of the year include Tom Hanks Robert De Niro and Harrison Ford Elizabeth banks is hasty pudding twenty twenty woman of the year and was honored last
Nightside with Dan Rea
Elizabeth Banks Honored As Hasty Pudding Woman Of The Year
"Actress and director Elizabeth banks honor today as woman of the year by Harvard's famed hasty pudding theater troupe the hunger games star paraded through Harvard square then awarded that golden putting pot hasty pudding says it picked banks because she's a role model for women in
AP 24 Hour News
Elizabeth Banks being honored with parade, roast at Harvard
"Accurate director Elizabeth banks is being honored by Harvard university's named hasty pudding theater troupe she's been named woman of the year and will be paraded through Harvard square and then awarded a golden putting pop following a celebratory roast by the trip he's the putting says the picked banks because she's a role model for women in Hollywood as a director producer and writer thanks is forty five has received three Emmy nominations for roles on the television shows modern family of thirty rock she also directed twenty fifteens pitch perfect two and produced wrote directed and appeared in last year's reboot of Charlie's angels previous winners include elephants Gerald Meryl Streep and Halle berry the more than two hundred year old troop is considered the nation's oldest collegiate theatrical
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
Elizabeth Banks still 'proud' of Charlie's Angels after 'flop' opening weekend
"Charlie's angels the latest in a string of big box office flops covert group of exceptional women it was a far from exceptional debut for Charlie's angels the latest reboot of the franchise open well below expectations just eight point six million dollars almost thirty million below the last film in two thousand three Charlie's angels reportedly cost around fifty million to make and will struggle to turn a profit writer director producer and co star Elizabeth banks tweeted Monday well if you're gonna have a flaw make sure your name is on it at least four times adding that she's proud of the movie and happy it's in the world it's the third big bomb in a row following other films with the brand recognition for terminator dark fate and the shining sequel
Trivia With Budds
Turns Out, Most Men Don't Know A Thing About Their Prostate
"Today's episode is about Prostate Cancer Awareness to kind of commemorate prostate it prostate cancer awareness month which is September my friend. Alana Austrian wrote to me about a month ago. She said Hey can you do something for September just to kind of talk about this. I work at Zero Cancer. Dot Org and we focus on educating people about the disease so she sent me some facts so I'm going to read this paragraph. It's most commonly diagnosed cancer among young American men and one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among men every seventeen minutes an American male dies from prostate cancer. That's a little more than eighty six deaths per day and thirty one thousand six hundred twenty this year alone that's enough to fill an entire baseball stadium worth of guys so get informed and play along with ten questions on prostate cancer in popular media written by Alana and her group and check out zero cancer dot org. If you want more info on this 'cause enjoy today's episode enjoy the Trivia and check out that website. We're going to jump into those ten questions right now. Here we go. It's all right here. Are Your ten questions. On prostate cancer related mentions in pop culture has written by Alana Ostrich and she said many of your favorite actors and authors have portrayed or written about characters that have struggled with prostate cancer in popular media on September being prostate cancer awareness month quiz your knowledge in today's episode and learn about the real life risks of prostate cancer and zero cancer dot org or by searching Hashtag and prostate cancer sir on social media. Here's the first question number one in Nineteen ninety-four movie did Robert Duvall Star is a newspaper editor who gets diagnosed with prostate tanzer number one. What was that Nineteen ninety-four movie with Robert Duvall as a newspaper editor who gets diagnosed with prostate cancer number one question number two in what Popular Medical Sitcom of the two thousands did Elizabeth banks have recurring guest role as a urologist list number two in what Popular Medical Sitcom of the two thousands did Elizabeth banks have a recurring guest role as urologist number two question number three in what Golden Globe winning net flicks series does Danny Devito play according to the AARP AARP A chipper urologist number three in what Golden Globe winning Netflix original series Danny Devito play according to the Aarp a chipper shipper urologist number three number four what Hbo Comedy Series did Ted Danson's character. d'Or of George have prostate cancer number four in what HBO Comedy Series Did Ted Danson's character of George have prostate cancer number four question number five what beloved character story line on NYPD blue includes a serious battle with prostate cancer that much to the relief fans he survived. What was that character's storyline number five. Who was the character rather question number six. What iconic comedian starred in a one man stage play titled a man in his prostate number six iconic comedic actor starred in a one man stage play titled a man and his prostate number six question number seven? Nathan Zuckerman a recurring character in several Philip Roth works battles prostate cancer in what book by Roth Number Seven Nathan Zuckerman a recurring character in several Philip Roth works battles prostate cancer in what Book Bad Roth number seven question number eight what nineteen seventy five western by Glendon swore without which the following year turned to a Western film starring John Wayne in his final film role features protagonist j books as an editorial gunman who also learns he has prostate cancer number eight what nine hundred seventy five western by Glendon swath out which the following year was turned into a Western film starring John Wayne in his final film role features protagonist Agnes J books as a notorious gunman learns he has prostate cancer number eight and question number nine which book in a four part series by Richard Ford features ends with the character Frank Bascom and his wife Sally flying to the Mayo Clinic due to his prostate cancer diagnosis. I think the word ends should be scenes now that I'm reading it number for nine which book in a four part series by Richard Ford features scenes with the character Frank Bascom and his wife Sally flying to the Mayo Clinic due to his prostate cancer diagnosis. He's in number hand the last question of the quiz in episode two of the beloved ninety Sitcom Northern Exposure which character tells the town's new doctor that in terms of his medical condition condition. Everything's under control. It's just a little prostate cancer number ten in episode two of the beloved ninety Sitcom Northern Exposure which character tells the town's new doctor that in terms of his medical condition. Everything's under control. It's just a little prostate cancer serve number ten those your questions for today's quiz. Some are easy summer tougher. Let's see how many you got right out of ten in just the second all right here. The answers to the quiz on prostate cancer related questions number one in one thousand nine hundred four movie did Robert Duvall Stars and newspaper newspaper editor who gets diagnosed with prostate cancer that was called the paper. I remember that movie. I've never seen it number. One the paper question number two and what Popular Medical Sitcom of the two thousand did Elizabeth banks have recurring guest role as a urologist. This is one of the only ones I definitely would have got in. Its scrubs if I'm not mistaken. Jd has a baby with her but maybe it's somebody else but I think it's her number two number three and Golden Globe winning Netflix original series does Danny de Vito play according to the AARP a chipper shipper urologist that is the Kaminsky method saw trailer for that but I don't know much about it the Kaminsky method number four and what Hbo Comedy Series Did Ted Dancing Scherzer of George have prostate cancer. I only know one. Hbo Show He's been on besides curb your enthusiasm and that is bored to death which is the answer here bored to Death Zach Galifianakis the Jason Schwartzman. I think around that to number five what beloved character storyline. NYPD BLUE NYPD blue includes a serious battle with prostate cancer cancer that he survived detective later Sergeant Andy Sipowicz played by Dennis Franz number six what I kind of comedian starred in a one man stage play called a man in his his prostate that was the lead voice of Carl Frederick Sin from up Ed Asner at Asner number seven Nathan Zuckerman a recurring character in several Philip Wrath works battles prostate cancer in what book by Roth it's called Exit Ghost Exit Ghost number eight one thousand nine hundred seventy five western by Glendon unsworth out which the following year was turned into a Western film starring John Wayne in his final film role features protagonist Jabe books as notorious gunman who learns about his diagnosis of prostate cancer cancer. That's called the shooter. I I've heard of it. The shoot EST number nine. Two questions left in this answer session which book in a four part series by Richard Ford features scenes with the character Frank Baskin his wife Sally flying to the Mayo Clinic due to his prostate cancer diagnosis. That's called the lay of the land. The lay of the land and number attended episodes of northern exposure which character says everything's under control just a little prostate cancer. That's on coup A. N. K. U. Ungku those are your questions fanned answers for the episode hope. He had fun playing along with those.
Ron St. Pierre
Rian Johnson Explains Why He Deleted 20,000 Tweets After James Gunn Firing
"Seven on news nobody hit each other Erfurt buddy. Each other it was just camp they won so we got through that one anyway good crowd on handed Gillette is it's open to the public for a. While until the swift performs, each night trillion us deal Minnesota to two, one winners over, the. Red Sox two losses, in a row a Bill on, these, guys socks up one. Nothing through six twenty one of. The seventh one of the eighth Brian Johnson great. Five and two thirds four hits no runs. Matt Barnes ended up taking the loss in this one. Socks only four and a, half on the Yankees now they gain a full game in. Last night's, action Yankees, beating Kansas City seventy-two Aaron judge, hit by pitch on the wrist to x rays they say are, unclear got. More, tests. To do today but he may be out a while the, Yankees make another trade Jay hap- oh man another picture that the Red. Sox have trouble. With point eight four ERA in two starts against the Red Sox or one of them it ten strikeouts he. Had the the epic. At. Bat against. Mookie Betts, ended up with a grand slam that thirteen pitch thing, PawSox at home. Tonight seven oh five Start NewsRadio nine twenty one zero four seven. FM. St., McDonnell The. Yankees did acquire j a happ from Toronto comes picked up Cole hamels lefty from, the Texas Rangers really stink in the join out this, year but, the cubs think he's got something in the tank I guess and a bunch. Of low level prospects sent off to, the cubs for lefty Cole hamels. A Star Wars film maker deletes thousands of tweets after. Director James Gunn got, can't his FOX's, Kristin Goodwin Star Wars the last Jedi director. Ryan Johnson deletes twenty thousand tweets in the wake of director James guns firing from the guardians of. The galaxy, franchise responding to a tweet about his. Purged posts Johnson, claimed there was no. Official directive at all calling it a why not, move adding he doesn't think he's ever tweeted anything that. Bad but trolls scrutinizing it for ammunition is the new normal. Disney recently fired gun from guardians, of the galaxy volume, three after a series of. Past tweets resurfaced referencing insensitive jokes including about pedophilia and rape John Johnson, is also a member of the Disney family. Through Lucas film and developing a film at trilogy in, the Star Wars universe I'm Kristin Goodwin. Fox News six twenty seven a new set of Kennedy centers honorees. Has just been announced this year's class includes share REBA mcentire composer Philip glass and, jazz great Wayne shorter in addition a special awards going, to go, to the musical Hamilton the first time in the centers forty-one career history that. An honor is being given not to an individual but to a work. Of art the Kennedy center's honors will take place on. December the second in, on CBS in, December the twenty six and wireless customary for. The president to attend that ceremony President Trump skipped it last year after honorees threatened not to attend. So far, the White House has told the New. York Times that, President Trump has not. Decided yet about attending this year but when you, consider the fact that some of these honorees including share. And Miranda they have been vocal critics of the president if. He does things could get a, little bit awkward my, guess is he'll probably skip, it Again well a nine to five sequel has been confirmed Jane Fonda did so annoyed Jane time for another eighties reboot Jane Fonda. Confirmed that plans to reboot, the, nineteen eighty, hit nine to five with a. Sequel or in the works. Hoping to reunite her with, Dolly, Parton and, lily Tomlin she sent. Out, a, tweet. That said, right now Dolly Lilly and I are all intending to. Be in it agree or disagree with Jane Fonda as political you know her slant where she stands politically, her agenda I think we're gonna. Agree that that was a pretty good movie nine to five pretty funny cast is set, for Charlie's angels reboot to this would be a reboot of the reboot, right director is Elizabeth banks about that serving up some serious girl power sources. Telling variety the reboot of Charlie's angels is on the way it's going to start Kristen Stewart Naomi Scott and. Ella Malinska the movie is due for release on September the twenty seventh in two, thousand nineteen now it's going to be directed. By Elizabeth banks she's going to be in two and. She's going to play Charlie traditionally a Male role listen if banks is. Going to be Charlie if, you know you love. Skittles you'll be interested to hear that the now, come in a variety without shelves. Believe, it or not the u k Mars candy. Company created a new product that's called skittles choice it's. A shell miss gummier version of the skills that you might know one love they come in the following flavors you'll be able to pick them up in orange lemon lime black. Currant and strawberry so far no right now not, to be, released in the United States so they're going to I guess test market them in the UK. They might, be heading.