{"id":476,"date":"2020-12-07T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=476"},"modified":"2020-12-07T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T21:11:10","slug":"123-life-as-a-house-with-latoya-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2020\/12\/07\/123-life-as-a-house-with-latoya-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"123 &#8211; Life As A House (with LaToya Ferguson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-477\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lifeasahouse-thob-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lifeasahouse-thob-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lifeasahouse-thob-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lifeasahouse-thob-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lifeasahouse-thob.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week, we\u2019re looking back at Oscar buzz molded from the success of\u00a0<i>American Beauty<\/i>\u00a0and the (new) hope of an incoming mega-franchise star: 2001\u2032s\u00a0<i>Life As A House<\/i>. Writer and podcaster LaToya Ferguson joins us to talk about the film that stars Kevin Kline as a dying man building a dream house with his estranged troubled son, played by Hayden Christensen. The film stayed long in season thanks to precursor attention for Christensen, recently announced as the next Anakin Skywalker &#8211; but Oscar wasn\u2019t quite so eager to herald him as the next big thing before seeing his Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p>Much more unwell than you remember it,\u00a0<i>Life As A House<\/i>\u00a0features a slew of no-boundaries behaviors that we unpack including shower intrusions, milfs, toilets next to kitchen sinks, and going postal at the office. But this episode finds us in nostalgia mode as we look back at Entertainment Weekly\u2019s It List, pre-movie trailer reels on VHS, and the WB\u2019s\u00a0\u201cOh What A Night\u201d promo.<\/p>\n<p>Topics also include the 2001 Supporting Actor race, Fred Durst\u2019s directorial oeuvre, and\u00a0\u201cAnatomy 101 with Professor D\u2019Angelo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow Us on Twitter!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Had_Oscar_Buzz\">@Had_Oscar_Buzz<\/a><br \/>\nJoe: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joereid\">@joereid<\/a><br \/>\nChris: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisvfeil\">@chrisvfeil<\/a><br \/>\nLaToya: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lafergs\">@lafergs<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9027\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-476-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_123_Life_As_A_House_-_with_LaToya_Ferguson.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_123_Life_As_A_House_-_with_LaToya_Ferguson.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_123_Life_As_A_House_-_with_LaToya_Ferguson.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_123_Life_As_A_House_-_with_LaToya_Ferguson.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=476-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_123_Life_As_A_House_-_with_LaToya_Ferguson.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_123_Life_As_A_House_-_with_LaToya_Ferguson.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>This week, we\u2019re looking back at Oscar buzz molded from the success of\u00a0American Beauty\u00a0and the (new) hope of an incoming mega-franchise star: 2001\u2032s\u00a0Life As A House. Writer and podcaster LaToya Ferguson joins us to talk about the film that stars Kevin Kline as a dying man building a dream house with his estranged troubled son, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2020\/12\/07\/123-life-as-a-house-with-latoya-ferguson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;123 &#8211; Life As A House (with LaToya Ferguson)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,35,590,593,591,192,285,592,3,6],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-best-supporting-actor","tag-hayden-christensen","tag-irwin-winkler","tag-jena-malone","tag-kevin-kline","tag-kristin-scott-thomas","tag-mary-steenburgen","tag-movies","tag-oscars","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}