{"id":1107,"date":"2024-05-06T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2024-05-05T19:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T19:01:20","slug":"287-harold-and-maude-with-katie-walsh-70s-spectacular-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2024\/05\/06\/287-harold-and-maude-with-katie-walsh-70s-spectacular-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"287 &#8211; Harold and Maude (with Katie Walsh) (70s Spectacular &#8211; 1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_7502.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_7502.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_7502-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_7502-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 70s Spectacular continues with critic and podcaster Katie Walsh joining us to discuss 1971 and Hal Ashby. After making his directorial debut with&nbsp;<em>The Landlord<\/em>&nbsp;after a career as an editor (including an Oscar win for&nbsp;<em>In the Heat of the Night<\/em>), Ashby returned to the director&#8217;s chair for what might be the film that became his signature.&nbsp;<em>Harold and Maude<\/em>&nbsp;cast recent comedy breakthrough Bud Cort as a death-obsessed, disaffected youth who falls for a free spirit who just so happens to be 60 years older, played by recent Oscar winner Ruth Gordon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This episode, we talk about Ashby&#8217;s prolific career in the 1970s, where&nbsp;<em>Harold and Maude<\/em>&nbsp;would be his only film without Oscar nominations. We also talk about Gordon&#8217;s three screenwriting Oscar nominations with her partner, Vivian Pickles&#8217; underpraised performance as Harold&#8217;s mother, and the musical contributions of Cat Stevens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics also include T-Mobile ads, the secret hotness of\u00a0<em>Norma Rae<\/em>, and Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s honorary Oscar win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Us on Twitter!<br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Had_Oscar_Buzz\">@Had_Oscar_Buzz<\/a><br>Joe: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joereid\">@joereid<\/a><br>Chris: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisvfeil\">@chrisvfeil<\/a><br>Katie: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katiewalshstx\">@katiewalshtx<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6186\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1107-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_287_Harold_And_Maude_-_with_Katie_Walsh.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_287_Harold_And_Maude_-_with_Katie_Walsh.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_287_Harold_And_Maude_-_with_Katie_Walsh.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_287_Harold_And_Maude_-_with_Katie_Walsh.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=1107-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_287_Harold_And_Maude_-_with_Katie_Walsh.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_287_Harold_And_Maude_-_with_Katie_Walsh.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 70s Spectacular continues with critic and podcaster Katie Walsh joining us to discuss 1971 and Hal Ashby. After making his directorial debut with&nbsp;The Landlord&nbsp;after a career as an editor (including an Oscar win for&nbsp;In the Heat of the Night), Ashby returned to the director&#8217;s chair for what might be the film that became his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2024\/05\/06\/287-harold-and-maude-with-katie-walsh-70s-spectacular-1971\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;287 &#8211; Harold and Maude (with Katie Walsh) (70s Spectacular &#8211; 1971)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1571,5,34,12,549,20,1474,1582,1581,1579,3,6,1578,1580],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1970s","tag-academy-awards","tag-best-actor","tag-best-actress","tag-best-director","tag-best-original-song","tag-bud-cort","tag-cat-stevens","tag-cyril-cusick","tag-hal-ashby","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-ruth-gordon","tag-vivian-pickles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}