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B.E.E. Podcast Cyber Receipt - 1/18/20 - Joel Stein

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Joseph A Aisenberg

Been listening to listening to some of these podcasts in reverse. In a previous comment I didn't compliment Mr. Ellis' movie criticism, almost like arias, which are frequently so entrancing that there's more interest and insight than in the accompanying interviews. I love that he's begun spotlighting old films, Charade and Cleo from 5 to 7 in his most recent episode. He even makes me want to see some of these new movies; 2019 was the first yr in a couple decades where I did not watch one new flick. Ellis says it was a good haul but none of them seemed particularly interesting, and I just cannot stomach these late Tarantino fairy tale historical revisionist takes which are like the GenXers' style in snowflake cinema, and though I won't take that one in or Greta Gerwig's Little Women I have begun delve. The other thing I'd like to add is that in this one he brings up Vidal. 1. I don't understand why Ellis doesn't like his smashing comic fictions like Kalki or Duluth which ought to be right up his alley, or Messiah. 2. When Ellis talks about how in his day everybody read everything but now no one reads literary fiction because "quality television" has taken over he sounds just like Vidal did in the fifties, serenely discussing how movies had taken the audience away from the Novel back THEN. By the 80s, the period Ellis thinks of as reader-y, Vidal thought American culture had long been ceded to the likes of Welcome Back Kotter and Hart to Hart. Love the show. Wish Ellis would have the critic Armond White on, the other most interesting critic aside from Mr. Ellis going to these days, which is different than correct in views. TTFN

Erick

Loved this pod,each one is better and better

Alex Waller

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Michael Yakutis

If we're talking comic writers, I think Neil Gaiman would be a better fit for the BEE podcast than Moore. I love Moore (he's my favorite) but he's too out there for Bret and this show's aesthetic.