In this episode of a new podcast, Vincenzo Barney, Clementine Ford, and Christian Lorentzen discuss the many films of the late actress Diane Keaton; her range and acting style; the lives of Louise Bryant and Jack Reed; the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, an occasion that prompts one co-host to red-bait another during a discussion of Reds; Annie Hall, missing Keaton; the never married Keaton’s mid-to-late career genius playing divorcees; the devastating greatness of Alan Parker’s Shoot the Moon; the rage and charisma of Albert Finney; the potent use of classic rock (Rolling Stones, Eagles, Bob Seger) in that film; the in-flight movie options on the red-eye Norse Atlantic flights from JFK to Gatwick; The First Wives Club and its formative influence on one co-host; how to bond with your mother through cinema and home video; Nancy Meyers’s collaborations with Keaton from Baby Boom through Father of the Bride pictures to Something’s Gotta Give; comparison of Keaton to her castmates, peers, rivals, and heirs, including Teri Garr, Jill Clayburgh, Sissy Spacek, Lily Tomlin, Madeline Kahn, Meryl Streep, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Diane Weist, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blachett, and Jennifer Lawrence; the never-released pilot of the canceled HBO series The Corrections, adapted by Noah Baumbach from the novel by Jonathan Franzen and starring Wiest instead of Keaton; one co-host’s impression of Keaton as Kay Corleone in the The Godfather Part II; the 2008 heist comedy Mad Money, starring Keaton, Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah, and Ted Danson, as yet unseen by any of the co-hosts; and much more. Thanks for listening. 

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