42. Freaky Friday

In this very special Mother’s Day episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Mary Rodgers’ mother-daughter body-swap classic, Freaky Friday!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Mary Rodgers’ original 1972 novel.
• The 1976 movie, directed by Gary Nelson, written by Rodgers, and starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris.
• The 1995 TV movie, directed by Melanie Mayron, and starring Gaby Hoffman and Shelley Long.
• The 2003 movie, directed by Mark Waters, written by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon, and starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Footnotes:

• Body swap appearances in media
• Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers by Thomas Anstey Guthrie
• The Freaky Friday musical, 2016, adapted into a TV movie for the Disney Channel in 2018
• Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers & Hammerstein) and Adam Guettel
• Once Upon a Mattress
• Taylor Negron
• Heather Hach and the Legally Blonde musical
• Rosalind Chao

41. The Ten Commandments

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the book of Exodus—the story of The Ten Commandments!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• The Book of Exodus. From the actual Bible.
• The Ten Commandments, 1923, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Theodore Roberts.
• The Ten Commandments, 1956, also directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner.
• The Prince of Egypt, 1998, directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells, and starring Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
• The Ten Commandments, the 2006 miniseries, directed by Robert Dornhelm, starring Dougray Scott, Naveen Andrews, and Omar Sharif.
• The Ten Commandments, 2007, directed by John Stronach and Bill Boyce, and starring Christian Slater, Alfred Molina, and Ben Kingsley.
• Exodus: Gods and Kings, 2014, directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, and Ben Kingsley.

Footnotes:

• “Go Down Moses”
• “Dayenu”
• The Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible
• Anne Baxter and All About Eve
• Age of Empires
• Roma and lead actor Yalitza Aparicio
• Stephen Schwartz, Godspell, and Wicked
• Brenda Chapman

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