TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
Mike and Dave are two Gen X Dads who grew up watching movies because there was nothing else to do. Tooky is a Millennial dad-in-training who grew up with the internet, and thus never needed to watch ROAD HOUSE on cable. Mike (a standup comedian) and Dave (an improviser and occasional academic) will present Tooky (comedian, social critic and dad-in-training) with a new (old) movie every week and answer the important questions: Are white people ok? When did Nic Cage become a whole thing?Are these movies good, or are Mike and Dave wallowing in toxic nostalgia? Every Tuesday, TDM promises to bridge the generation gap, one dad movie at a time.
Intro/outro music: "It's Almost Late Night" from the album WE HAD A GOOD RUN by Dave Rabinow, available at www.daverabinow.com
TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN
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Oh, Catherine O'Hara...
For Dads Of A Certain Age (DOACAs), the presence of Catherine O'Hara in any project was a sign that we were in good hands. She was to Gen X what in many ways Gilda Radner was to boomers - surprising, unafraid, deeply physical, and deeply funny.
Her run on SCTV is legendary. Her recent dramatic work continued to cement her presence as one of Hollywood's finest actors in any genre. Her final extended run in SCHITT'S CREEK was - is - iconic. But, for DOACAs, her work in the Christopher Guest-O-Verse will always be what we think of first. And her turn in GUFFMAN is extraordinary: Sheila Albertson, with her insecurities and fears and (fleeting) moments of triumph is as multifaceted as any Hedda Gabler, and funnier too. And let's see Ibsen's titular heroine woo Eilert Lovborg in a pair of culottes. Catherine O'Hara could do it all, and the Dads are glad she did.
Enjoy Christopher Guest's 1996 mockumentary WAITING FOR GUFFMAN.