Continuing his conversation with writer/producer/director Judd Apatow, Marc finds out how hands-on Judd is as a producer, whether Judd is happy with the way his movie Funny People turned out, what are his favorite comedies, and whether or not showbusiness brings him joy.
Part of Marc's appeal is that he is marginal, or more to the point seemingly burdened by the fear that he is marginal. Whatever that means. So when he talks to people he and we collectively would consider having "made it". It makes for good conversation.
Because as we've all come to know. No matter what you have or haven't got we're all searching for the meaning of life and contentment. Noone really has the answers and no amount of fame or success can really extinguish the angst. The search will always go on.
Great podcast, as always.
By the time of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY, it had become obvious to me (and I'm about the same age as Marc) that Woody Allen resented women to an unusual degree (and it still strikes me as strange how many women will insist the opposite), inasmuch as the women in his films were almost always portrayed as fools (and all the women in minor parts were) for not seeing past his characers' physical unattractiveness and tics to love the basic Woody Allen guy in his Specialness...meanwhile, the women (and certainly the leading women) were always conventionally attractive, very much including the teenaged Hemingway his middle-aged character is dating in MANHATTAN, of course.
And if it helps any, none of your colleagues who are doing podcasts know how to gracefully wrap an episode either...the closest anyone comes consistently has been the team including Eddie Pepitone. And they not that close.