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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is on a lot of people's list, is their
number one. Are certainly in their top five movies of
all time, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Go ahead, absolutely, it's.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
It's it's popular to would rival even some of the
Star Wars movies. Actually, it's off through the roof. It's huge.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
The Shawshank Redemption.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yes, sir, probably the great escapist films ever made, along
with the great movie The Great Escape That will.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Work wonder last week. This is right up there with it.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Wonderful, Uh, not only the plot but the casting and
brilliant yeah uh. Starring Morgan Freeman and jam Robbins. Of course, Man,
who are you bringing back with this one?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
The very nasty prison warden mister Bob Gunson will be
here in persons awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
He is one of the great bad guys played so well.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, he is brilliant, brilliant actor. You want to hate him,
don't you. You know, if you hear that name out
of the blue, I wouldn't know who that is. But
Norton from do you know the face? Just say Warden
Norton from.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It was it difficult to get him.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No more than the other guest. How's the process? Well,
now you know a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
It's the fifty second time I've done this in thirty
three years.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Sword's gotten out of it a little bit, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
But I just connect through their managed people that operate
with them to do their business for them, managing such
and work through them.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So May seventeenth, Yep, take us on sale today, which
takes me off mightily because I wanted to go to
this one. I'll go and report value my place.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yeah, Because what they do is they play the movie
and then there's a Q and A beforehand.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's really great.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
And it's a wonderful experience if you love movies, because
you get the backstory and uh and still get the
big screen. It's at the playhouse. Yes, and they're very
very accommodating. He's brought in people that were very big
stars and yet they were very humble and very gracious
and wonderful to talk to.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
They appreciate their fans.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, no doubt. So the Q and A with Bob,
we do.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
That before the film at seven o'clock that night, May seventeenth,
and then take it to you to him and I
and then we'll take me question from the audience and
then probably do certainly after the film.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
He'll do a brief.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Photographed session fans in the lobby and we're gonna have
an eight by ten glossy of him as the warden.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh boy, man, he was just brutal man guy, one
of the great bad guys. I was obtuse.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
That's a famous line, he says, am I uptuse now, Andy, Yeah,
get busy living or get busy dying.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Morgan Freeman brilliant, he is.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
He's maybe my favorite actor everybody really film.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
He is perfect.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That guy, that guy man. He is well along with
Denzel Washington. It's hard to pick a lot of really
good ones.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
But it's just a great It's a Stephen King story,
you know.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yes, yeah, and this is not a supernatural This is
not an evil or scary super good movie.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
You talk to movie buffs all the time. This is
what you do all day long. What is the one
movie that you continue to get people to ask you
to bring to Omaha that you've yet been able to
do because you've brought fifty two of them? So which
is the one?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Is there one? Is there one or two that you
keep hearing about or that you'd like to bring.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Oh, there's a listener, I still want to do yet
before I hang it.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Up, you mean to hang it up, but you're not
hanging you hang it out. I can't retire unless you
got somebody in line. They ain't gonna be no hanging
it up.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So well, there's there's a few in my back of
my head like to do it just it just comes together.
When it comes together, you know, I can't plan this.
It just happens or it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
But it takes a while. You just can't pick up
the phone on Monday and say, hey, could just show
up on Saturday. So it takes a while to get
the movie, get the people. So what's your process.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I've been working on this since January. Okay, there you go.
It's thee a four month thing at least.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So I got October twenty fourth for the fall event
this year.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
This point is if I have a day, I have
to hold the day ahead.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
But what's the But of all of the movies that
people ask you to bring to town, which one tops
the list and that you'd like to bring that you
haven't been able to bring it? He brought some classics.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
This one gentleman named Patrick Joseph's listening.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
He'll he'll back me if he wants me to do
breaking away really bad.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So if I can get Dennis, have you done? Sorry to
keep track of all of them? Have you done the Godfather?
Oh yeah, okay?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Had the Bando family come back? First time they've made
a public aff in their life.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He had Polly who a snitch? Yeah, he's the one
that got it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
He was here, and Miko and Karen Brand first time
they've made a public appearance in their lives is an Omaha.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
That was huge. It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Omaha Parks Foundation dot org for tickets online, yep, anywhere else.
You can buy him just there and call online seven okay.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Seven o fine zero zero seven five you can do
it to call them, or better just go online to
Oma Park's Foundation.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Doctor.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
There'll be a butt on at the top of the screen.
It says tickets for Shaw Shank right here, folks, because
they're going to go.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I have a request for one, but you you probably
have some standards regarding language and that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Always I didn't know, father, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, okay, because I'm telling you, I remember he had
the animals was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, so well, Midnight run Flower.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But Charles Grden Sadley's gone. He died way too, He's gone.
I think John Ashton is around. John Ashton, John Ashton
you remember from Beverly Hills cop Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
he just died, didn't he just Racent? Who else?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I think he did pass away?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, Facado, he's going to. Dennis Farina's gone, I mean
died early, sadly. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
You may have never mind. Midnight Run may have outlived you. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Bruce Crawford hanging out with us this morning, and again
Shawshank Redemption is the next one. Bruce is bringing the
town May seventeenth, and I an earnest request for Midnight Run.
You know Robert de Naro is still around. He that'd
be big with Kfaby nation to You're gonna have protests,
(05:59):
so you bring him back for that one, and just
ask before you commit, just ask him do you have
to preach Trump hate? Or can we just talk about
the movie? Keep it on the film.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Please? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I wish they all would.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And if he said, now I gotta say, I gotta
say f Trump, well then don't come.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Yeah, don't come, Yeah, because you know people, people aren't
there to talk about politics.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
They're there to enjoy the movie. One of the great
actors ever.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Oh yeah, I think one of the most versatile for
taxi driver deer Hunter, The Godfather, you know, the one
guy we were talking with, Bruce, who knows everybody in Hollywood.
He should be in Hollywood. Uh, that would have been
a Yeah, I know. Sutherland would have been a magnet.
You might have had to make that two days. He
could anything because he had He did so many different movies.
(06:46):
And even if you let's say you bring mash in
he was a star in mash and let's say bring
ordinary people. You know, this is some of his higher
profile roles. People will be asking about all the other
movies too. You know, if you had Sutherland and he passed.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Away last year, Chameleon, he could do anything.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Ridiculously gifted. Who's your favorite actor Bruce today?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Living now?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, well hard to say. I do like Denier, like
you said, as an actor, brilliant. How about you, Rosie,
you don't have to have one.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah. Really, you know Hanks for a long time, but
then he.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Kind of went off the reservation on me, and I
thought Hanks was really the same way with Dreyfus, I
thought Dreyfus some of his roles were fantastic.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
He was great.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
And Jaws he's great, and Goodbye Girl. I thought he
was fantastic. Yeah, and then he goes off the rails
to look these people. You can't look.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
If you're gonna go by that, you can never watch
any movies anymore.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, but Nicholson's probably my number one. It's his birthday today.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I think, who's your old time favorite actor?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Mine?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
George Scott Charlton for me, Yeah, George Scott was one
of those, and I think Jim Nichols, I think.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
The great act Huh.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
He was brilliant.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, he was one of those you do anything that
could make a character real to me, when you can't
tell their acting, he becomes the king well you know,
I mean obviously you know they are, but he was
just so. And Meryl Streep is that way. You know,
you can't see, you can't see him doing the role,
you just see him being that person.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Method. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And the one that really nailed it from me with
Scott was Christmas Carol. Every Scrooge had been kind of
a caricature until that one, and here was this miserable
old son of him. You know, he made it real.
My favorite scog really, that's a favorite of a lot
of people. He's the Scott is number two familiar for
(08:53):
that one. I think Scott is brilliant, very good. Especially
remember the formula. No, that's a creepy I know. I
don't think I ever saw that change.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Was a scary one. He was great.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
He was great and everything he did, Yeah, Nicholson sold
me when he was on screen for twenty one minutes
and a few good men.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And dominated the movie.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yeah, he dominated the freaking movie how do you do that?
And was just spectacular. He was your co star in
terms ofrect Yeah, became tight.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
He encouraged me to get into acting, and I said,
you know, I too much sex appeal.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They would blow up the whole formulas no thing.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
And of course he did another movie right across the
street from me, when he did about Schmid.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, when he lived in it.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Now the by Dalak's House used to be the by
Dalak's House across the street from me on Alexander Payne production,
which I didn't think he was great in that movie.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
He was good. He wasn't great, but I was stacking
up against all the other thing was always good. He
was always good. Yeah, yeah, that was the challenge.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Is the one The funniest scene in that movie because
a lot of them unsocked because it was about Omaha,
was when he was in the hot tub with Kathy Bates.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That was that one.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
That was the classic Nicholson's scene. I go, Okay, you
saved the movie with that one scene. And then when
he rolled his They're gonna have to drink a lot.
That's what that's from about. You need to get very
very drunk. Beautiful, Thank you so much. Great to see
(10:28):
you again, and you'll be Although I got one email
from Ronnie said, the Cox cable has showing that movie
at least nine hundred times. Yeah, in the last five years.
I can't watch it anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So, but the big screen is different and uh and
the warden Warden Norton is going to be here.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I hear that from every movie I've ever done. It's
always on TV.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
There he goes Bruce Crawford and sew Shank Redemption excuse
me again, May seventeenth, at the Playhouse