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We\u2019ve got a personal favorite coming to you today starring one of our most beloved icons! After winning her Best Actress Oscar for Moonstruck<\/i>, Cher then conquered the world with the album Heart of Stone, and didn\u2019t return to the cinema until 1990\u2032s Mermaids<\/i>. With Cher as a mother of two rebuking societal expectations, the film also starred the recently Oscar nominated Bob Hoskins, Christina Ricci in her debut, and the ascendant Winona Ryder. A female-led comedy about mothers and daughters, the film earned a Golden Globe nomination for Ryder, but ultimately missed out on Oscar while being released between two Best Picture winners from the dying Orion Pictures.<\/p>\n
This episode, we talk about the film\u2019s fraught beginnings with several replaced directors with differing tonal visions for the film and Ryder\u2019s fast rise as prestige actress. We also talk about odd 1990 Golden Globe choices including Ghost<\/i> and Green Card<\/i>, life lessons learned too early from formative cinema, and Richard Benjamin\u2019s directorial career.<\/p>\n
Topics also include Cher joining TikTok, marshmallow snacks, and Bob Hoskins being hot.<\/p>\n
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