{"id":1545,"date":"2026-08-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:15:45","slug":"400-town-and-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2026\/08\/10\/400-town-and-country\/","title":{"rendered":"400 &#8211; Town and Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/townandcountry-thob-1024x671.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/townandcountry-thob-1024x671.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/townandcountry-thob-300x197.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/townandcountry-thob-768x503.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/townandcountry-thob-1536x1007.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/townandcountry-thob-1200x786.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/townandcountry-thob.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s our 400th episode this week, so we had to go big. What could be more fitting than a notorious bomb with major star pedigree?! No stranger to misfires, Warren Beatty nevertheless was one of the biggest names in Hollywood that could generate buzz with any project &#8211; and more prophetically in this case &#8211; could have any budgetary or creative demand met.&nbsp;<em>Town and Country<\/em>&nbsp;was a simple middle-aged sex farce (that Beatty took neither producing or writing credits&#8230;) that ultimately resulted in years of reshoots or creative redirections before becoming one of the biggest and most forgotten Hollywood box office bombs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This episode, we talk about how the film fails to riff on Beatty&#8217;s playboy star persona and the film&#8217;s troubled production history. We also talk about the numerous rewrites and reshoots that plagued the film, a foul-mouthed Marian Seldes, and and Beatty&#8217;s reactions to the film&#8217;s disastrous press cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Topics also include Idaho costume parties, cello tattoos, and our favorites from the previous year of the show.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1206\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1545-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_400_Town_and_Country.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_400_Town_and_Country.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_400_Town_and_Country.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_400_Town_and_Country.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=1545-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_400_Town_and_Country.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_400_Town_and_Country.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>It&#8217;s our 400th episode this week, so we had to go big. What could be more fitting than a notorious bomb with major star pedigree?! No stranger to misfires, Warren Beatty nevertheless was one of the biggest names in Hollywood that could generate buzz with any project &#8211; and more prophetically in this case &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2026\/08\/10\/400-town-and-country\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;400 &#8211; Town and Country&#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":[5,707,821,2217,161,2212,2211,2213,2215,2218,2219,3,2214,6,2216,2210],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-awards","tag-andie-macdowell","tag-buck-henry","tag-charlton-heston","tag-diane-keaton","tag-garry-shandling","tag-goldie-hawn","tag-jenna-elfman","tag-josh-hartnett","tag-marian-seldes","tag-michael-laughlin","tag-movies","tag-natassja-kinski","tag-oscars","tag-peter-chelsom","tag-warren-beatty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","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=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}