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S8E5: Mr. Lonelyhearts Returns

🕑 Added 2024-02-13 07:23:19 +0000 UTC

Comments

Dana Wallace

You should always be loved a little more than you love them

Dan Smith

In 'irreversible' isnt the worst part that they kill the wrong guy at the end?

J Hay

Why do you seem to ALWAYS toss in this same “comment”??

Sodaheiress

re staying in a relationship where they love you more, I disagree with Adam that women don't want that. The older we get we do, we don't want to wade into the cesspool of dating, which we hear about from our single mom friends. Maybe not when we're dating in our 20s, but in our 40s, totally don't mind.

BUtterfield8

Bret destroys anything French. They must have studied languages over at Buckley, right? I can assure you that Bret did not take French.

BUtterfield8

Thanks for the tip. People here seemed to hate the podcast, but I was fine with it and immediately ordered the book. What’s wrong with mixing it up a little? The complaining about Young Kim was awful. My lord, that picture in the NYTimes of the two of them in 2015. Nobody ages better than Richard Hell. Must be all the sex and the 5th floor walk up.

Nikki Ferrari

Adams incel energy is deep in this episode

Sértő-Radics Sarolta

Unfortunately the relapse has been happening for a while. Hopefully Bret can heal channeling this experience into his creative work. As he always does. Wish him and Todd well. Sincerely.❤️

Mary Walker

Enjoyed article in NYT about previous BEE guest, Young Kim. Her book has reached “cult status”.

E

My prayers are with Todd and with you Bret

Harold B

Did Bret really call irreversible arousing? That’s a pretty dark take :/

Happyhead

If this episode was taped on the day before Valentines, as Adam states, then was it taped before or after Todd was arrested for burglary that same day? I’m assuming before since Bret sounds rather chipper for a dude whose partner is in jail

Stephen

The restaurants told you that? Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Stephen

Get well soon. Kind of odd that Ellis announces a movie called relapse and then Todd actually relapses.

Adam Marzec

These episodes are great

Kerry

Man, I feel for both of them

Allan Sherwood

Wow. Sorry to read this. Wish them both the best.

Summer711

I’m with caller Stephen on Aerosmith’s What it Takes, one of my favorite songs of all time.

Happyhead

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/style/bret-easton-ellis-boyfriend-arrested.html

Ashley

Exactly!

Alex Waller

that sounded silly when I heard it. Like almost every restaurant anywhere including chain restaurants will have a pretty girl who seats customers and a few waitresses who at least happen to be cute, and somehow many couples manage to eat dinner there without having issues

Alex Waller

I think the first 3 seasons of the show are far, far superior to the movie. The show even has better cinematography/production value that sustains over 12 episode seasons. I think it is definitely worth any fan of the movie's time to check it out.

Ashley

I’ve worked in service industry for 8 years in LA both restaurants said they hired based on looks and women were preferable…so not sure how accurate that is on not hiring attractive women (but I also wasn’t working in super “high end” places)

Ashley

I just can’t imagine the movie being topped

John Q. Thompson

I think so, I really enjoy Jon Hamm and what he's doing here is great. Give the first two episodes a try and if you like it keep going if not, you've only lost about 2 hours of your time. Plus you'll get to see Hamm's nipple rings.

Ashley

And barely just mastered it…he still drops a COP-pola now and again 😂

Ashley

Is Fargo worth watching?

Charlie C

He just mastered pronouncing Coppola give him a break

Bobby Bermudez

Will somebody please communicate to Bret that the é of Gaspar Noé isn't silent? Hint: it's pronounced like the é in Beyoncé. Hence the accent mark being there in the first place.

Sértő-Radics Sarolta

Used to be one of my favorites. I wonder how it aged. I was 100% convinced the schoolyard dog statue vandalization was a huge inspiration for a similar scene in the Shards.

Mel

There’s a remarkable piece (1957) by Capote where he visits Brando in Japan. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/11/09/the-duke-in-his-domain

John Q. Thompson

By the way, has Bret given us his thoughts on Jon Hamm's pierced nipples in "Fargo" yet? I can't remember. I skipped the last season with Chris Rock, but this latest one is pretty decent. Hamm's a hunk.

John Q. Thompson

Yeah what the fuck, he couldn't tell us about it before the press release? I'm on other Patreon pages where that's one of the key perks of subscribing. Getting in-the-know behind the scenes info before the public.

John Q. Thompson

About to revisit it thanks to Arrow's 4K release. Such a great film. Probably Patrick Swayze's last great film role.

Alexander Quattlander

Get Gaspar Noe on the show.

Sértő-Radics Sarolta

Please do a monologue on Donnie Darko

Travis Danner

Holy shit I just saw the news about Relapse! Go get em Bret!!!

Alex Waller

Yeah, it is good. It pushes back on some of the narratives about him, like he was tortured about being gay. At least from watching the doc it appeared like he wasn't even trying to hide it that much. He never even had a showbiz wife to cover it up or anything like that.

Darren Ankenman

Hurt and Turner in Body heat Ford and Young in Blade Runner Cage and Shue in Leaving Las Vegas And for what it’s worth, the first 10 minutes of Irreversible takes you right to the head smashing fire extinguisher moment. The beautiful naked moment in that film is much later , if you’re watching the original cut, the backwards cut

Happyhead

Todd off the rails again

John Q. Thompson

Good on Bret for bringing up the new season of "Feud" here otherwise I'd have probably forgotten it among the never ending avalanche of streaming content. Funnily enough as a straight white man, I tend to love the gayer the output from Murphy and co. especially that second season of "American Crime Story" and "Hollywood." The Fire Island season of "American Horror Story" was a delight as well, haven't seen anything after that one yet though.

John Q. Thompson

Would that be "Making Montgomery Clift"? Gonna have to check that out, thanks for rec.

John Q. Thompson

Ahh, my favorite comment.

Alex Waller

Also Lars and the Real Girl

Richard Raymond

You forgot Lea Thompson and Howard The Duck in the great romance couples

Normaling

Adam dropping jewels of wisdom with that cat metaphor 🎯

Marcelo

The documentary about Monty Clift and his family is worth watching. His brother and dad were prolific in recording phone conversations, wire tapping the house etc