40. A Star is Born

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss every version of A Star is Born!

For this episode, we watched versions of A Star is Born from:

• 1937, directed by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, written by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• 1954, directed by George Cukor, produced by Sidney Luft, written by Moss Hart, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• 1976, directed by Frank Pierson, produced by Jon Peters, written by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, and starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Watch it on iTunes.
• 2018, directed by Bradley Cooper, written by Eric Roth, Cooper, and Will Fetters, and starring Cooper and Lady Gaga. Watch it on iTunes.

Footnotes:

• What Price Hollywood?, 1932, directed by George Cukor, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, and Neil Hamilton.
• The Motion Picture Production Code, aka The Hays Code
• Gregory Ratoff and All About Eve
• Dorothy Parker
• Andy Devine and Disney’s Robin Hood
• Joan Didion
• You Must Remember This: The Birth of Barbra Streisand’s A Star is Born
• Jon Peters, American film producer and former hairdresser.
• Kevin Smith on his experience working with Jon Peters: Part One and Part Two.
• Kris Kristofferson, star of Tad and Blade, and songwriter of “Me and Bobby McGee.”
• The video for Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” ft. Beyoncé
• Jeff Bridges and Crazy Heart

39. Godzilla

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Godzilla!

For this episode, we watched:

• Godzilla (Gojira), 1954. The original. Directed by Ishirō Honda, produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, and starring Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata, and Takashi Shimura. Watch it on Amazon.
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, 1956. The “original.” Directed by Ishirō Honda and Terry Morse, and starring Raymond Burr. Watch it on Amazon.
• Godzilla, 1998. The modern “classic.” Directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin, and starring Matthew Broderick, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, and Jean Reno. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• Godzilla, 2014. The newer American one. Directed by Gareth Edwards, and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Sally Hawkins, and Bryan Cranston. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• Shin Godzilla, 2016. The Japanese reboot. Directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, and starring Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, and literally every other actor in Japan. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Adapt or Perish Episode 11. The Fault in Our Stars
• Takashi Shimura and Seven Samurai
• The History and Evolution of Godzilla by YouTuber Cynical Justin
• Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah
• Independence Day and Stargate
• “Museum,” the original teaser trailer for Godzilla (1998)
• Godzilla and Taco Bell
• Production designer Patrick Tatopoulos
• The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
• Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid and Kung Pow! Enter the Fist

38. Brokeback Mountain

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Annie Proulx’s original short story, first published in the New Yorker on October 13, 1997, an expanded version of which was published in Close Range: Wyoming Stories. Read Close Range on iBooks or Amazon.
• Brokeback Mountain, the 2005 movie directed by Ang Lee, written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• limn, verb, to represent in drawing or painting; to portray in words; describe
• Matthew Shepard
• Our own episode on The Birdcage
• Ang Lee, director of The Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility, Hulk, and Brokeback Mountain
• “Gene Shalit's Brokeback Mountain review angers gay rights group” from The Advocate
• “No Man’s Land” from The New Republic
• “Return to the Range” from The Wall Street Journal
• Brokeback Mountain, the 2014 opera by composer Charles Wuorinen, with libretto by Annie Proulx