I'm really excited, ladies and gentlemen.
I just had a birthday.
I turned 38, like, three, four years ago.
Thanks.
I don't know.
And my friend's going to rock.
You don't seem that old.
I guess because I read at a third grade level.
She's my young.
I, uh...
Those are tough job, ladies and gentlemen.
Being a schoolteacher, you know that?
Yeah?
You don't even say you never forget your first schoolteacher?
I have mine, like, four years in a row.
I was a dater by the time I got out of that joint.
I wasn't school forever.
I was the only kid in eighth grade that was over in NAMM.
I don't know.
I'm the one time I bring my report card home.
I go, hey, pop.
I got to be in reading.
He goes, that's a D-who idiot.
My baby, he don't talk sweet.
He ain't got much to say.
But it loves me, loves me.
I know that it loves me anyway.
And maybe he don't dress fine.
But I don't really mind.
Cause every time he pulls me in,
I just want to cheer for the boy.
From the soundtrack of the movie, What Loose.
That's here for the boy.
Denise William, 708.
I'm Don Rose, and thank you for joining us here at WRJN Radio.
We were gone.
He's with me now coming up at 730 this morning.
Well, I've bred hoppin' from Marcus theaters,
and then it's 750 this morning.
We'll talk sports with Mike Clemens.
Hey, Loose, somebody just sent me a picture.
I think it's of you with your band.
Oh, which band?
Well, let me say it's got a, in front it says,
A-G, is that your band?
No, A-G.
I don't know, A-G.
A-G.
G is in George.
A-G.
It looks like you standing up there.
Oh, yeah.
That's the Green Mill band, Alan Gressick.
Sure.
That's you standing up there, I think, in the picture.
Yeah, that's me.
Yeah, look at you.
We got a whole, we got a nice picture of you.
It was sent by one of your fans, that's it.
Oh, thanks for letting me know.
And thank you, two fans.
Carol Lynn sent it.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you, Carol.
It's very nice of you to send a picture of Lubricani.
You look good too.
You got the band all there and everything.
And wow, that's nice.
We talked about movie soundtracks just a moment ago
for while we were off the air.
And of course, that song from a movie soundtrack.
But it's not the instrumental type of movie soundtrack.
And you're pretty good at remembering some of these.
I told you that in 1963, my family went there
to see summer magic with Haley Mills.
And you kind of remember the songs.
And it was the, it was a bug song that Burlife sang in the film.
The something like bug ball or something like that.
But you remember all that stuff.
You got a great memory for movie soundtracks.
On the front porch, I remember.
That's another one, Burlife sang.
Yeah, yeah.
I played that on my show.
Yeah, that's on that soundtrack.
Good stuff.
The Sherman's were brilliant.
After a while, some of the advisors to the Disney studios
said, we got to update our music.
And the music changed from all that into, you know,
from what we know, the vintage Disney,
Bambi, and Pinocchio, Dumbo, and all that.
Into more of a rocky style.
And I think that happened about the time Robin Williams
joined them for the Aladdin soundtrack.
Yeah, you know, and it really turned around too
when they started, when they brought the musicals back
with a little mermaid, beauty in the beast.
You know, people always said, well, they don't make musicals anymore.
They do.
Disney was making them animated musicals with hit songs.
Yeah, they are.
A little mermaid, beauty in the beast, a laden,
a tarzan, all these musicals at hit songs with them.
Now, my favorite composers of music,
Leonard, not Leonard.
Elmer Bernstein was one of my favorites.
Right.
Right, he lasted into the 90s.
Now, he did scores, and you know them, the magnificent seven,
that Maul Barrel cigarette theme song he did.
He also did the great escape.
He did so many great scores, rousing scores for Westerns
and big epics over the years.
And he did win on the Academy Award for Thurley Modern Milley.
He wrote the music for that movie as well.
The instrumental music for it, the score.
Right.
That's Titanic.
No, no, no, that was a Julie Andrews thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're really modern.
He also, here's a local trivia thing.
He wrote the notes for the Ten Commandments
and he sent them on to Kenosha.
And we have Lucien Kaie here on Third Avenue.
He actually orchestrated the entire Ten Commandments here.
For the movie soundtrack.
And it's used a lot in Christmas music,
except that it's an old testament song.
So it doesn't really fit but glorious music.
Elmer Bernstein.
Yeah, great artist.
And we have some current James Jim,
oh, it's his name, all the guy from the big country.
Moros Moros.
I can't think of it.
I can't think of it.
Or your own Moros.
Moros.
Yeah.
Another great composer of memory music.
Right.
And I'm trying to remember.
They have some modern ones too.
One of the guys just passed away.
I can't remember him.
Oh, I wish I could remember.
He did the score for the movie Titanic.
You mentioned Titanic.
I can't think of it.
It's Warner.
James Horner.
James Horner.
I'm trying to think of the others because we've
to run a lot of soundtracks here on the radio.
Oh, I remember.
I listened.
It was great.
Yeah, on our FM station.
We run it Sunday morning at the movies.
I'm trying to remember some of them.
Hey, great composers.
And they'll live on for a long time to come.
Do you want to hear my?
Do you have hear my Leonard Bernstein story?
Yeah.
That's your right.
All right.
I think I told us on the air.
I'll tell it again.
So my dad repaired pumps in skyscrapers in Manhattan.
That's what this was called as federal pump repair company.
And in one of the buildings, there was a problem with one of the pumps.
Pump the water up.
Gravity brings it down.
So that's basically how water works in these buildings.
But you got to get up.
So there was a problem.
One of the apartments.
And it turns out it was the apartment of Leonard Bernstein, the composer and conductor,
Leonard Bernstein.
So my father knocked on the door.
And he said, I'm Arthur Rosen from federal pump company.
And Leonard Bernstein, the maestro, let him in.
And he said, I got to figure out where this pipe is.
And turns out with his bathroom ceiling.
That's where the trouble was.
So my father stood on his toilet bowl.
Leonard Bernstein sat on the rim of the bathtub and was talking to my father the whole time.
He was trying to locate the problem with his pipe.
And he said, for 45 minutes, I'm talking to Leonard Bernstein.
He's sitting on his bathtub.
I'm standing on his toilet bowl.
And then he took it for a tour of the apartment.
It's a beautiful apartment in Manhattan.
And he had a white grand piano in the living room.
And his father said he had never seen a house like this in his life.
And Leonard Bernstein was wearing white slacks with a white sweater.
And he talked about my brother's band.
And he said, tell me what instruments he plays.
And here he is talking to the maestro himself.
It doesn't get any bigger than Leonard Bernstein.
But how do you like that story?
And my father stood on Leonard Bernstein's toilet bowl and talked to him while Leonard Bernstein sat on the rim of his bathtub.
Oh, that's a great story.
His final score was far from heaven with Tom Cruise.
Yes, I remember.
Yes.
He did a lot of jazz scores as well.
He did jazz.
Oh, yeah.
He wrote, I mentioned ten commandments, but only in note form.
And it was orchestrated here, but Bernstein is one of my favorites.
And there was, there was going to, oh, they made a movie on the lights, I guess.
Or I don't know how true it is.
I haven't seen it yet.
My story about Leonard Bernstein.
It's up for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
It was produced and starring Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein.
Right.
It didn't play in theaters.
It was one of those streaming movies.
I have to see it.
I have to watch it.
Have you seen it?
No.
No, I haven't seen it.
It didn't play in movies.
If it played in the theater, I'd say it.
Right, right, right.
That hasn't played there.
I'm looking for the people wanting, I can't type it in there.
I'll type it in just when the break comes up.
But the great scores of these composers.
Now, do you play a lot of soundtracks?
I do, indeed.
For example, I mentioned Leonard Bernstein.
I played at Ten Commandments at Christmas, even though, as I said,
it's Old Testament, but the music fits the mood, the majestic, and glorious.
And Elmer Bernstein wrote that and he wrote, well, Elmer, in that last score,
he played, apart from Heaven, it was brilliant.
Nobody remembers the picture.
Nobody.
But it was his last movie and it's just a romantic dreamy soundtrack for this far from Heaven,
which is a take off the movie on the stuff that Douglas Sirk used to do back in the 50s.
Like, oh, me out here.
He did four or five Leonard Sirk classics.
Oh, written on the wind is one.
Yes, I do.
That was a take off on that moody, romantic stuff.
And I have to keep that music alive, not only for the idea of longevity,
but for my own pleasure, I've got to listen to it.
Here's the theme that everybody will remember from Leonard Bernstein.
Everybody will remember this one.
The theme.
The theme.
The theme.
It doesn't get more classic than that, does it?
Yeah, what made that song even more famous was it was used back when cigarette advertising was allowed on TV and radio.
It's not now.
This was the theme song they used on the Marlboro commercials because they were supposed to be the he-man, the tough man, the cowboy smoking Marlboro cigarettes.
But, you know, those days ago, he never does it anymore.
That's right.
Now, they actually...
The Casper Wyoming troopers drum of Google Corp used to play that at Harlic Field on July 3rd.
And it was a rousing stand-up sort of tune.
And great sounding with the drum cord you guys dressed in the 7th Cavalry uniforms, you know.
Wonderful.
They actually used that in all four magnificent seven movies.
Right.
Classic.
Yeah, they, um...
And he did a lot of Westerns too.
One of my favorite Western composers was Inu Morakone.
Inu Morakone from Italy.
Right, he did the obviously fistful of dollars for a few dollars more than good to bad and the ugly.
He did all those films.
And...
And how about that chorus hole?
Yes.
Right, they had the...
The chorus in the background.
Eride on all these Italian Westerns.
He did a ton of Italian Westerns.
He started off doing the Sword and Sandle movies back in the 60s.
Procure J.A.L.A. only and he just kept them on.
And...
All done there.
We're talking to Lou Regani, Music of the Stars, every Sunday morning from 7 to noon on WRJN.
And now, statewide on the Civic Media Radio Network.
We've got y'all covered in the state of Wisconsin with Lou Regani on Sunday mornings.
It's 7-18.
Rain and fog today.
Highs near 38.
Rain and fog tonight.
Cloudy tomorrow.
Cloudy Sunday temps in the mid to upper 30s the whole time.
It's...
Let's see here.
We got 36 degrees in rain.
Some news headlines coming up in just a moment at WRJN Radio.
It's 7-21 at WRJN Radio.
Let's take a look at some of the news headlines from Stuart J. Waddles in our News Center this morning.
Two people are in custody for the fatal shooting at a pleasant prairie shopping center on Tuesday.
Village police say two suspects were arrested Wednesday for the death of 46-year-old Anton Lamar's space.
A motive isn't known yet nor are the identities of the two people taken into custody.
More details are likely to come out today.
It's likely the two suspects were arrested and mount pleasant with scanner reports at the time indicating spike strips were used to stop a car with a man and a woman taken into custody.
The city of Racine wants to buy you a camera.
Leaders are testing out an effort called the security camera pilot program.
It's set to enhance home and community safety.
Homeowners and businesses can receive reimbursement for purchasing new security cameras under the program with eligibility criteria outlined on a website.
Participants can receive a $150 reimbursement for home installations and a $250 reimbursement for business and commercial property installations.
After over two decades of helping to feed those in need, the CEO of the Hunger Task Force is retiring.
Sherry Tussler has announced her retirement after more than 26 years of leading the organization.
Matt King, the current associate director, will succeed her at CEO.
Tussler says she plans to move back to her hometown of Racine to spend more time with her family.
The content of the books available to kids in Kenesha Unified now has a new review process.
The district voted this week to update its book review procedure to streamline the process.
Comes after challenges were made to 38 books that were deemed potentially harmful to students.
The new policy prioritizes requests, comparisons with children in the district and requires those challenging a book that have read it in its entirety before bringing the challenge to the school level.
Those of the stories, Stuart J. Wattles, our news director is keeping an eye on the news center today.
Of course, he'll update those stories and have more throughout the day on WRJN Radio.
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Lou Regani, my guest at 723 WRJN, host of Music of the Stars, Sunday morning 7 to noon on WRJN and Pacific Media Radio Network.
Hey, Lou, do you ever meet any big superstars in the business you must have over the years?
Oh, yeah, I was buddies with a Hollywood composer that most people have an heard of. Paul Dunlop, he was a brilliant classical and popular composer.
He did songs for some of the universal horror movies. They did use them, although people have forgotten that.
They're there to watch Carloff and Lucy and those guys.
And we talked on that, and I never asked him why he was doing those.
He also wrote the Baron of Arizona for Vincent Price, 1950. That's one of his more major pictures.
And he was always heartbroken because he said, I had a family to feed, and this was all they ever gave me.
Which is too bad that some people never rose up into the fields of major Hollywood soundtrack composing.
But you know what though, if the music to a soundtrack shouldn't always stand out, it's meant to enhance what you see on the screen.
So sometimes it has to stay in the background, and you don't always have a memorable song like the Magnificent Seven of the Great Escape.
You have music that is just incidental music, and it just moves the movie along in the right direction.
But then look at Summerplace with Max Steiner.
Oh, yeah. And everybody thinks of Percy Faithful, that's that fabulous song.
No, he had that summer play. That was done by Max Steiner, and he was in his 80s.
And he was dead broke at the time, and his agent said, you better take this, this contract.
Because you have no money, you're broke, and you're buying all those big cigars out of Cuba, and he had spent a lot of money during his career.
Well, the story goes, they had somebody else picked for that, but he took the job because his agent said he'd better do that.
But he used the theme from Summerplace, which is not that song that we know, it was another one.
It was at the very beginning of the picture.
Remember that, that's called Sylvia's theme.
And he stole that from another movie that he had never gotten the contract for that he watched out on.
It was that Tyrone Power's last picture.
Solomon and Shiba.
Solomon and Shiba.
No, not that one, no, I think of it.
The one about the both disaster that was never completed right because he died in artifact during production.
Tyrone Power.
Anyway, I'm making the story too long, but he just used it.
He pulled it out of the files, and he gave it to the studio, and they said that's wonderful, and it fit.
But it wasn't written for the movie at all.
I like that.
And that hip song, which is Percy Faith had the hit on that Summerplace Andy Williams, that was a last minute add on.
So it's funny how things work in Hollywood with the soundtrack, like for example Costa Blanca.
As time goes by, it was never meant to be used.
Because of Ingrid Bergman cutting her hair, it couldn't reshoot it.
They had to use that song from 1931.
But you know what?
The theme from a Summerplace was number one on the Billboard charts and instrumental.
Number one.
One of my favorite composers, too, was Bernard Herman.
Oh, yeah.
He composed the last movie he did was taxi driver with Robert Canero, but he's most famous for the theme song from Psycho.
Right.
And I saw a band, we're talking about band and drum core competition.
A band from Oregon, Wisconsin.
A wonderful band with the name Shadow Armada.
They were in Kenorsha.
I was announcing the program.
It was the Great Lakes band championships.
They won.
And they played this entire, not the entire, but clips from 11 minutes worth of Psycho from Bernie Herman in 1960.
And it caused them to get a victory.
It was wonderful.
They came off the line with that.
The title of, you know, the scene with the Janet Lee driving.
I know.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what they played on the field in competition.
Classic.
Just great stuff.
Great stuff.
And everybody.
And everybody knows that.
Everybody knows the theme song for the music from Psycho.
It's just one of those things when you hear it, you know, exactly what we're talking about.
That's difficult.
So this weekend, you had any themes planned for Music of the Stars?
Well, we're going to do an Academy Award night.
I'm going to do the Academy Award losers.
The songs that never won.
Oh, I'll do some other winners too.
But so many songs were never nominated.
Not even nominated.
Like, you were meant for me.
Not even nominated.
Yeah.
And other things one that maybe shouldn't have liked, for example,
the star is born 1954, Judy Garland.
The man who got away over that one.
Yep.
Yes, I do.
Well, it lost.
It lost to three coins in the fountain.
Go figure.
Well, Lou Regani is the host of Music of the Stars.
You can hear it every Sunday morning for five hours from 7 a.m. until noon on WRJN.
And now on the Civic Media Network, so wherever you are traveling around in the state of Wisconsin,
you can hear it.
You can also hear it on the stream as well.
And it's music.
I don't hear much on the radio anymore.
We're very lucky to have a radio legend like Lou Regani as hosting it on WRJN Radio Lou.
Have a great weekend.
And I'm fabulous.
And we found out you had a band performing in Chicago.
I love it.
Thank you for being with us this morning, Lou.
We've got to have you back.
You got such great radio and music stories.
And what a great knowledge in your brain.
Thank you so much.
You honor me.
And thanks to everybody out there in Radio Land and Civic Media in particular.
Thank you all.
And the sharpest dresser in our Christmas party this year too, Lou Regani.
Thank you, Lou.
Thank you.
Love by now.
At 7.29, we're talking movies next with Brett Huffman of Marcus Stater.
He's here at WRJN Radio.
Stay with us.
From the movie Flash Dance, Irene Cara.
That kind of changed everything.
Didn't have that movie.
Brett Huffman of Marcus Staters is here.
Hey, Brett.
Do you ever hear the story about how this movie got released?
It almost didn't.
Do you ever hear the story?
I did not.
Go ahead.
Okay.
Who was the head of Paramount Pictures at the time?
I can't think of his name.
He didn't want to release the film.
And his wife saw the movie.
And she said, oh, no, no, no.
The biggest mistake of your life, this film has to be released.
And he goes, did you see it?
She goes, this has to be released.
And of course it was one of the biggest hits Paramount had in the 1980s.
Flash Dance.
So, you know, what are those movies people?
They should listen to their spouses.
They know.
But that's how it got released.
Paramount was not going to let that movie out because they said it's terrible.
And you know what?
The movie isn't that good.
The music's great.
The dancing is great.
The plot is kind of stupid.
You think about it.
So, Brett Hoffman is here.
We have a couple of movie's opening up this weekend.
And one is a very interesting, not revival, but it recently was out.
But it's repackaged.
Let's talk about those movies out there.
That's right.
This is a new movie that's repackaged.
And let me tell you, this one took audiences by storm.
It was a surprise hit of early December for movie theaters.
And that was from Japan, Godzilla, minus one.
Everyone loved it.
It received a 90% rating from both critics and audiences and rat and tomatoes.
And some were saying this is the best Godzilla movie that we've ever seen.
Well, now they're repackaging it and coming out with a new way to watch the movie.
It is Godzilla, minus one, minus color.
Because this week you'll be able to see Godzilla, minus one in black and white on our screens.
It looks visually fantastic.
As I just mentioned, the story was great.
If you haven't thought of going to see this one, go check it out.
It was a great surprise hit from Japan.
And I think we'll be seeing more movies coming to nationally, especially from places like Japan.
After the success of Godzilla, minus one, that's Godzilla, minus one, minus color.
And before you go on to the next one, you mentioned that I think Warner Brothers has the franchise in America for Godzilla.
But this one got around that.
How do you tell me it got around getting past Warner Brothers on this one?
Well, I don't know logistics, but I obviously had been produced in Japan in Japanese language.
It is a subtitle movie.
This was able to be released as a Godzilla movie here in the United States.
So it's from Japan.
It has subtitles.
But as I mentioned, the visuals are fantastic.
Everything is great.
But if you're looking for a Godzilla movie from Warner Brothers, don't worry about that.
Because one is coming up this year.
You'll be able to see Godzilla coming up quite soon.
Because it will be coming out as Godzilla and Kong, the new Empire.
And that's coming out on Easter weekend.
So late March, you're going to see a new Godzilla movie from Warner Brothers.
So check this one out and then go check out the Godzilla movie that's coming up from Warner Brothers.
That's Godzilla X Kong, the new Empire coming out during the Easter weekend this year.
Did you ever see Godzilla versus Bambi, the cartoon?
If not, I think you have.
Yeah, it's 30 seconds long.
It's Bambi in the woods.
Just quietly, you know, just quietly sipping water out of his stream.
Almost had a giant foot comes down on top of Bambi.
And all you see under Godzilla's foot are the four legs spread out.
And then it ends Godzilla versus Bambi.
It's just a little short card too.
Again, you can see it online.
It was about 30 seconds.
How many Godzilla films were there?
I have the number in front of me.
Do you know how many there were?
Yeah, I don't.
Let's get 14.
38 Godzilla movies.
Oh, guys.
33 Japanese films produced and distributed by Toho and five American films produced by
Tri-Star Pictures and Legendary Pictures.
Isn't that something?
You can't keep a good monster down.
I mean, and now you have one more film opening up this weekend, right?
Yes, yes.
This one's an Rated Thriller.
It stars Jen Ortega.
And she's a talented student who is seemingly becomes a bit too involved in the creative
writing assignment and her teacher who's played by Martin Freeman.
This is called Miller's Girl.
It's an R-rated Thriller.
And that is how the theaters all over as well.
Okay.
The Oscar nominations came out for best picture.
Here they are.
These are an alphabetical order.
American fiction.
Anatomy of a fall.
Barbie.
The holdovers.
Killers of the flower moon.
Maestro Oppenheimer.
Past lives.
Poor things.
And the zone of interest.
Have you seen, well, you've seen some of them.
But have you seen the whole list of these?
I've never heard of some of these films before.
You know, I've got a few of them to go.
I've seen seven of the ten.
Let me tell you.
All of them are deserving to be in this list.
In fact, when we talked about these previously on your show, this is the exact list that we talked about.
So nothing is unexpected.
We didn't see anything really come out of left field.
But everything is deserving.
And overall, Don, I think they did a great job of mixing some movies that were popular.
Everyone has seen whether it was Barbie and Oppenheimer.
And then mixing just a good eclectic mix of other movies.
That maybe people need to experience or just haven't gotten around to experience yet.
I think.
I go ahead.
No, no, I was about seeing the old days when they only had five nominees.
I don't think Barbie would have made it.
Yeah, perhaps not.
But this also gave the chance for, I've been telling people about the movie that's expanding American fiction.
This is a tremendous drama.
And that's in there.
Do I think it's one of the front runners to win?
No, but is this a stack of the movie that everyone should see?
That's American fiction being released by MGM.
There is other spectacular features in here that people need to see like the holdover starting Paul Giamatti.
Again, do I think that one's going to win?
No, but you really should go check out these 10 films that did get nominated.
Okay, speaking about Paul Giamatti, he's nominated for Best Actor for the Holdovers.
As his Bradley Cooper from Maestro, Coleman Domingo for Rustin.
I never heard of that one.
Killian Murphy for Oppenheimer and Jeffrey Wright for American fiction.
But it's Rustin.
I never heard of that movie.
Yeah, I don't have to look at that because I'm Rusty on it myself.
Yeah, but he must be good because it's nominated for Best Actor.
And to that group, I'm thinking Killian Murphy for Oppenheimer.
My, my guess is because it's such a big movie that he'll be swept into it.
I think Oppenheimer's going to win for Best Picture as well.
But it's one of these big Hollywood, Hollywood likes big epic movies.
They love those things because that's what it's all about.
They like small films.
They like big epic movies.
And I think this year Oppenheimer's got it sewn up.
I think they have the most nominations too, Oppenheimer.
Yeah, actually, you know, when you look at that Oppenheimer has 13 total nominations.
The movie poor things though has great momentum.
And that one is one that people haven't, a lot of people haven't seen yet
because it's just expanding out.
That is the second most of the 11.
And then Killian is the far more moon directed by Market Learning Scorsese, he has 10.
So two big films in there, but then poor things.
I think you're going to see some surprises.
And there are a lot of judgment calls when I'm making these predictions myself.
I mean, you mentioned Silly Murphy.
You think he's going to win for Oppenheimer?
Paul Giamatti won the Golden Globe.
Yes.
Right now, I'm giving Paul Giamatti the edge.
But I still have to think about that a little bit.
But there's a lot of those just, there's a lot of those close matchups this year
that I think will be really interesting to follow.
I just think of him as Howard Stern's boss in the movie Private Parts.
Remember how good he was?
Yeah.
Just getting on Howard Stern's nerve in that movie.
For best actress, the nominees are Annette Benning for Nyad.
Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon.
Sandra Huller for Anatomy of a Fall.
Carrie Mulligan for Maestro and Emma Stone for Poor Things.
I know you like the movie Poor Things, but Lily Gladstone, I think,
has the momentum to win.
She's the first Native American ever to be nominated in a,
for an Academy Award in a major category like this too.
And she was excellent in that movie by the way, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Are you shooting for Emma Stone maybe for Poor Things?
Well, you know, I'm giving the nod to Lily Gladstone there.
I think she's, she want to go and go.
And I think she'll be the one to win that one as well.
But Emma does have some momentum.
Poor Things has some momentum that's going to be another close one.
Right now, I'm, I have Lily penciled in at the moment.
Okay, best supporting actor, Sterling K. Brown for American Fiction,
Robert De Niro for Killers of the Flower Moon.
Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer, Ryan Gosling for Barbie,
like Ken in the movie and Mark Ruffalo for Poor Things.
I think Robert Downey Jr. may have momentum.
He might be swept up in the Oppenheimer thing.
What do you think?
Yeah, I was going to give my nod to him as well.
Of course, this could all change.
But right now I had, you know, Robert Downey Jr. is probably the tech that I would go with there.
Best supporting actress Emily Blunt for Oppenheimer,
Daniel Brooks for the color purple Danielle Brooks,
I should say for the color purple, America for RF for Barbie,
Jody Foster.
I didn't know she was in any movies recently, niat.
I never heard of that movie.
And the divine joy ran off for the holdovers.
Jody Foster is back acting again, huh?
I didn't know that did you?
Yeah, that was a movie with Jody Foster and Annette Benny.
And it was a woman who at the age of 60 swam the ocean from the Florida.
And it's a really neat film, a bio drama there.
So that was a really great film that a lot of people didn't get a chance to see.
I think the woman's name is Diane Nijad.
Yeah, I remember that.
That's true story.
Best director.
I'm going to trouble with some of these names here.
Justin Triett, I guess, for anatomy of a fall, Martin Scorsese.
He's the most nominated director in movie history now with killers of the flower moon.
Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer.
Here's the one I can.
I'm going to trouble with your goals.
Land the most.
I hope I'm saying that right.
Poor things and Jonathan Glazer for the zone of interest.
I think it's going to be Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer because that was a major undertaking that film.
I do too.
This category can go a lot of other ways.
I think usually it was you always saw best director and best picture go together.
You know that if their best director was handed out to one movie or one director,
they were probably getting the trophy later in the night or the Oscar later in the night for best picture.
Now that's changed over the years.
Christopher Nolan and Oppenheimer, I think, at the upper hand here.
Martin Scorsese, you got to think of as a wild card because our people considering
carers of the flower moon along with his complete body of work when they're voting.
I mean, that's one thing there.
And as I mentioned, poor things have some momentum.
If it gets swept up in the excitement of people watching it,
it's a newer film.
So a lot of people are going out and seeing it for the first time.
So it's top of mind.
So you've got three pictures there that could win.
But let's pencil and Chris Nolan right now is both of our first choices.
Now, the negativity, the, the rassies come out.
The nominations always come out the day before the astronauts.
And they also come out the winners come out the day before the Academy Awards.
Worst picture of the year.
These are the raspberry or the raspberry awards, the razzies.
Worst picture, the exorcist believer, the expendables for mega to the trench.
Suzanne Fury of the gods and Winnie the Pooh blood and honey.
Do you see any of those?
I actually saw all of these except for Winnie the Pooh blood and honey,
which is a horror film with Winnie the Pooh ads.
But I've seen all of them.
And let me tell you, I think the razzies are somethings harsh.
The razzies are unique awards.
Where in order to vote, you just need to pay.
It's a really interesting thing.
You pay $40.
Really?
And you get voting membership for the razzies.
So if you want to vote this year, dad, go ahead.
I think I'm right.
I think I'm right.
It's a lot of form.
It's only $40.
I mean, when you look at these, I mean, sure.
The expendables, that one had a great cast.
We thought it was going to be something more obviously.
It just turned out to be an action movie that not a lot of people went and saw.
Maybe to the trenches is interesting, though.
I mean, I got to ask myself, what were people thinking there?
We're going to see about a sequel, about giant prehistoric sharks.
I mean, when you think about that, it's funny.
And I think most of the people that saw that movie, including myself,
kind of enjoyed it.
You know, we checked our mind at the door.
We came in.
We got a popcorn.
And we just enjoyed the action on screen.
So if you ask me, I probably think this one will go to the expendables or shazam
because I think people were thinking they would be a little bit better than what they ended up being.
But there's a few in there.
So we'll see what goes on with the worst picture at the razzies.
And down, which would you vote for anyone if you plucked out your 40 dollars?
I haven't seen any of these movies.
Okay.
Now, I did notice that Helen Mirren is nominated for Worst Actors for Shazam Fury of the Gods.
And Michael Douglas is nominated for Worst Supporting Actor for Ant-Man and the Wasp.
And Bill Murray is up there for Ant-Man and the Wasp as well.
So these, obviously, they, these are big actors too.
And they're getting the nod for Worst Actors.
Yeah, mostly it's not for their performance.
It's just to the actor's style and movies that people did not necessarily enjoy
or they thought did not live up to expectations.
I mean, obviously, we're not going to take anything away from, you know, Helen Mirren.
I mean, you can't say that anything she does, she's not great in what she does.
I think I'm getting you next year for Christmas.
I'm going to get you voting rights for the razzies.
Okay.
Get your voting cards.
Brett Hoffman of Marcus theaters.
Thank you very much.
Brett will talk to you again next Friday morning.
Very good.
We'll see.
Everyone at the movies.
There's a lot of great movies out there.
Have a great one.
Okay, my friend.
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Marcus theaters.
Love that guy.
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And the good morning Mike.
Good morning.
Did anybody else get fired overnight or are you getting it?
I know.
You know what?
You know, I met the coach yesterday.
And I met his coach there last week.
And I was at the point where he said he was not going to be there in the middle of the
season.
When every time a team is out of the playoffs or they're doing poorly, people get fired.
But the bucks were different because they weren't doing that poorly.
No, no, no, they're in second place in Eastern conference and they've got, you know,
tremendous talent.
And I was, I mean, I just got back from San Francisco late flight, Monday night midnight.
And, you know, I'm thinking, okay, I've, I got some things I've got to take care of.
I'd notice that my driver's license was going to expire in mid February, which means I would
land in Vegas to cover the Super Bowl, but I wouldn't be able to get on the plane and come back home
to receive.
So I was thinking, Tuesday, okay, I've got to go to the DMV and get a driver's license and then
all of a sudden my phone starts blowing up.
But what?
The box fired their coach.
So Adrian Grifford fired just halfway through the season, 43 games into his first job as
a head coach in the NBA.
And, you know, he was a player.
He was a player in the NBA for many years, kind of a defensive player.
And then he was actually a player with the bucks.
And the bucks said, you know, you're really smart at this.
We're going to move on from you as a player.
But we get off you, you know, one of the start-up assistant coaching jobs.
And that's how he got to start.
So he was an assistant for two or three other teams with a Toronto Raptor's.
Well, they had a very good team up there.
And the bucks hired him last summer.
Now, there's other candidates that were out there.
There's some, some big names too, like Calvin Simpson that turned down the bucks.
But this was a guy that Yannis had met with and he would be pretty good.
So why would they do in second place and they're cruising along and why would they fire him?
I think because at the end of the day, like, for example, just a week and a half ago,
when they lost by 40 points to the Cleveland Cavaliers and other two of you played at night,
you know, there was no fire there.
You know, I think he was so concerned as the first time he had coach about losing the locker room.
And at the end of the day, you know, losing his job.
But, you know, let me, let me play you a clip.
When they hired Adrian, they had this big, this big welcoming party for him.
I mean, a big spread of food and dignitaries from around the city and the state
and they brought in some players.
And it was a big, huge media event.
And I think, you know, this was like the start of a new era.
And this was going to get, you know, Yannis and those guys to a second championship.
And I got a chance to go one-on-one with him.
And I asked him this question about how did you find out that you had gotten the job,
your first NBA head coaching job with the Milwaukee bucks?
So, how did you find out you got the job?
I was actually, you know, in the meeting and the ownership, I could share this with the ownership
as far as how I found out.
Okay, so I'm in the meeting with West Ening, D and Jimmy Asselam.
So we're just sitting there.
It's a funny, cool story.
So my agent told me, okay, listen, you're like kind of on a one-yard line.
Like, don't mess this up.
Right.
So that was part of the first time I got a little nervous, but, you know, during the meeting,
you know, I noticed West kind of, he was on his phone and whatnot.
And then he said, hey, it must be true if Wolves put it out there.
And that's how I found out.
And then he was, you know, we all laughed.
And he said, hey, congratulations.
You know, you're the next head coach of the Milwaukee bucks.
Wow, you know, I was completely numb.
You know, I didn't know how I was going to respond.
You know, you prepare for this day for so long and then when it finally happens, you know.
It was just surreal, you know.
And even to this day, I'm still getting used to, you know, everything, you know.
But one thing is that, you know, the entire city of Milwaukee and the entire organization is with the books.
You know, they've embraced me from day one.
So, I mean, I'm truly, truly grateful.
How funny how time just kind of changes there real quickly.
Well, listen to this.
You've worked your whole life for this moment.
You're 49 years old.
And the way you find out that you've got the job is that your new employer has called the media first and let them know that's who's going to be it.
And then they kind of wait for it to come up on Twitter.
Adrian Orginowski, the NBA insider.
And when he posts it, then you take your phone and you go and reach across the desk and you show this guy,
oh, must be true.
Look, it's in the news.
You're the new head coach.
Isn't that creepy?
Now, how come they would let somebody go without having a replacement ready to go?
Well, it turns out they did.
We've learned now that actually when they thought they were getting into trouble, that they were not playing on the defense side of the ball,
which means, you know, you've got to go to your superstar shooters and say, you've got to get to the end of the floor,
and you've got to help out on defense.
They brought in Doc Rivers, the former Marquette star, as a consultant.
As a consultant last month.
And so, you know, right there would be a red flag like things are not going well.
So they have a new coach replacement ready to go now?
It's going to be Doc Rivers.
Yeah.
You know, he's been a longtime cue player that played for three years for Hank Ravens in the early 80s,
and then as a player in the NBA, and now as a longtime coach, he took the Celtics to a championship in 2008.
He just did the last three years, got the 76ers to the playoffs, but they thought they had a better team,
so they let him go last May.
But yeah, he's 62 years old, but, you know, he's more of a bulldog.
He'll go after these guys and tell them they've got to play both ends of the court.
You know, what happens?
This is the time of year, especially when the football seasons over is when you start seeing all the firings,
or when the team is eliminated or their seasons over, it starts in all sports.
You start seeing the firings because they don't like to fire people in midstream.
They do sometimes, but they don't like doing it.
So now that a lot of these teams are being out of the running with wild cards and everything in football,
you'll start to see a lot of, a lot of coaches start to leave now.
Mike Clemens, he's our sports guy at WRJN Radio.
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You'd be safe out there. You're doing a lot of traveling.
You'd be safe, all right? Don't let me know.
Yeah, yeah, vlog has been crazy, huh?
I want the doors to stay on the plane when you're traveling.
I know I'm taking the aisle seats now.
And I don't want any front wheels, nose wheels falling off the plane on the runway.
Oh, I didn't even hear about that one.
Happened yesterday.
Oh, God.
And a Delta flight.
The front wheel fell off the plane when it's sliding down the runway.
Mike, you stay well.
Mike Clemens from WRJN Sports.
Thank you, Mike.
Next time.
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