Best Thefuture Podcasts (2025)

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 12: OKLAHOMA! (1955) and THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (1956) 50:19

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In this week's episode of our Gloria Grahame Acteurist Oeuvre-view, we explore the unique casting of unmusical Gloria in Fred Zinnemann's film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955) and follow the thread that leads (through Jud Fry) from the supposedly "wholesome" musical to Charlie Kaufman's dark, experimental I'm Thinking of Ending…

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted talks about the upcoming World Cup Draw Party, and roster talk. Then he previews the MLS Cup Final with Jake Zivin of MLS Season Pass ... 44:20

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted talks about the upcoming World Cup Draw Party, and roster talk. Then he previews the MLS Cup Final with Jake Zivin of MLS Season Pass, who will be calling Saturday's Final. After that, he chats about a discussion surrounding media awareness and the MLS Cup Final. See omnystudio.…

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted chats with San Jose Midfielder, Ian Harkes, about the entire 2025 season, while looking ahead to 2026. Then Jamon Moore of American Soccer Analysis joins to ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted chats with San Jose Midfielder, Ian Harkes, about the entire 2025 season, while looking ahead to 2026. Then Jamon Moore of American Soccer Analysis joins to discuss some of the Earthquakes' strengths and weaknesses, and team design for 2026. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount – 1933: ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON & DUCK SOUP 1:11:23

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This Paramount 1933 Studios Year by Year episode features two of the studio's defining stars of the era: the Marx Brothers, in their final, most famous, and (maybe) most nihilistic Paramount film, Duck Soup, directed by Leo McCarey, and Gary Cooper, miscast (or maybe not) in One Sunday Afternoon in the role that would go to James Cagney in the Warn…

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Special Subject - Truffaut's Antoine Doinel Series – LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS (1959); ANTOINE ET COLETTE (1962); BAISERS VOLÉS (1968); DOMICILE CONJUGAL (1970) and L'AMOUR EN FUITE (1979) 1:28:08

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For our November 2025 Special Subject we watched the Antoine Doinel films of François Truffaut: The 400 Blows (1959), Antoine et Colette (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979). In addition to the charms of star/auteur avatar Jean-Pierre Léaud, we focus on the films' evolving style and increasing interest in t…

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On the latest episode of the San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over the announcement of MLS's schedule change, talks about this with Kevin Egan of MLS Season Pass, and then discusses other ... 43:51

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On the latest episode of the San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over the announcement of MLS's schedule change, talks about this with Kevin Egan of MLS Season Pass, and then discusses other happenings around the San Jose Earthquakes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cumulus Media San Francisco

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 11: NOT AS A STRANGER (1955) and THE COBWEB (1955) 1:13:30

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Our Gloria Grahame Acteurist Oeuvre-view continues with two 1955 liberal institutional melodramas: Stanley Kramer's Not as a Stranger, starring Robert Mitchum as a monomaniacally idealistic doctor, Olivia de Havilland as the wife he takes for granted, and Gloria as the Other Woman; and Vincente Minnelli's underrated The Cobweb, starring Richard Wid…

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted talks about roster rumblings, has a nice chat with Earthquakes Hall of Famer, Chris Dangerfield, and then talks with defender, Daniel ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted talks about roster rumblings, has a nice chat with Earthquakes Hall of Famer, Chris Dangerfield, and then talks with defender, Daniel Munie, who just signed a new contract with San Jose after the best year of his young, pro career. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1932: THE OLD DARK HOUSE and THE MUMMY 1:11:11

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We've got a Halloween Hangover on this week's episode, with two Universal 1932 horror movies, James Whale's The Old Dark House (based on a novel by J. B. Priestley) and Karl Freund's The Mummy, starring Karloff. We explore the curious tone, social themes, and stellar cast (including Charles Laughton, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, Melvyn Douglas, and …

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted chats with Preston Judd about his season, his new contract, and what's next, and then Jeff Carlisle of ESPN joins to discuss year ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted chats with Preston Judd about his season, his new contract, and what's next, and then Jeff Carlisle of ESPN joins to discuss year one of the Bruce Arena Project in San Jose, and what's next. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Special Subject - Halloween 2025 – Solo Freakouts - HOUR OF THE WOLF (1968) and VAMPIRE'S KISS (1988) 1:06:39

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Our 2025 Halloween episode is a double feature in the "mentally disintegrating men" genre: in Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf, Max von Sydow is beset by some unusual vampires, and in Robert Bierman's Vampire's Kiss, Nicolas Cage becomes an even more unusual one. If people attempting to bite each other to death without proper vampire fangs is your…

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, we hear from Earthquakes Head Coach and Sporting Director, Bruce Arena, who held a year end press conference on Wednesday (Oct 29th ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, we hear from Earthquakes Head Coach and Sporting Director, Bruce Arena, who held a year end press conference on Wednesday (Oct 29th), to talk about the season that was, and what comes next for the team. Then Ted chats with Miguel Gallardo of MLS Season Pass on Apple TV about San Jos…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 10: HUMAN DESIRE (1954) and NAKED ALIBI (1954) 52:00

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In this week's Gloria Grahame Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode our heroine reunites with Fritz Lang and Glenn Ford in Human Desire (1954), based on the Zola novel La bête humaine, which was more faithfully filmed by Renoir in 1938. We debate the relative merits of the two adaptations as well as the potential weakness that links them. Then we turn to t…

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted talks about the season ending win over Austin, looks at the future, then chats with Niko Tsakiris after his first ever goal on Saturday ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted talks about the season ending win over Austin, looks at the future, then chats with Niko Tsakiris after his first ever goal on Saturday night, and then goes over postgame reaction following Saturday's win. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1932: What Price Hollywood? and The Animal Kingdom 1:08:57

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In this RKO 1932 Studios Year by Year episode we discuss a couple of trademark Selznick productions: What Price Hollywood?, the first iteration of the A Star Is Born story, starring Constance Bennett as the rising star Mary Evans, "America's pal," and Lowell Sherman as her tormented director mentor; and The Animal Kingdom, based on the Philip Barry…

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, the Quakes have a chance to qualify for the playoffs on Decision Day and we get into it. Ted first chats with Earthquakes defender, Daniel ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, the Quakes have a chance to qualify for the playoffs on Decision Day and we get into it. Ted first chats with Earthquakes defender, Daniel Munie, and then brings in Kevin Egan of MLS Season Pass on AppleTV to discuss San Jose's chances. The Earthquakes host Austin FC Saturday at 6pm…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 9: PRISONERS OF THE CASBAH (1953) and THE GOOD DIE YOUNG (1954) 45:54

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This week's Gloria Grahame episode sees our acteur making some questionable career decisions: a rare headlining role in Columbia's Orientalist stinker Prisoners of the Casbah (1953), displaying a phenomenal lack of chemistry with Turhan Bey; and a micro-role in intriguing British heist noir The Good Die Young (1954) as a pragmatic actress tormentin…

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over improvements the team needs to look at going into the offseason, their chances of making the playoffs heading into Decision ... 44:20

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over improvements the team needs to look at going into the offseason, their chances of making the playoffs heading into Decision Day on the 18th, gets into postgame reaction from Head Coach Bruce Arena after their loss in Vancouver, and then chats with Dax McCarty of MLS Se…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Fox Film Corporation – 1932: YOUNG AMERICA & PASSPORT TO HELL 1:03:24

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For this 1932 Fox Studios Year by Year episode we watched Frank Borzage's unloved Young America, an idiosyncratic, primitive melodrama starring Spencer Tracy as a wealthy drugstore owner at odds with a disadvantaged delinquent, and Passport to Hell, Fox's surprisingly good take on the Sternberg-Dietrich formula, starring Elissa Landi as a woman of …

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, we get into last Saturday's huge win at San Diego, get into postgame reaction, and then Ted interviews Quakes rookie Max Floriani, and ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, we get into last Saturday's huge win at San Diego, get into postgame reaction, and then Ted interviews Quakes rookie Max Floriani, and then previews Sunday's match with Paul Dolan of MLS Season Pass. Sunday's game will be on 810 KSFO, 3pm start time. See omnystudio.com/listener for …

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 8: MAN ON A TIGHTROPE (1953) and THE BIG HEAT (1953) 46:23

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In this week's episode of the Gloria Grahame Acteurist Oeuvre-view series, our heroine battles an organized crime ring in Fritz Lang's classic noir The Big Heat and the Soviets, or in any case her beleaguered circus capitalist husband, Fredric March, in Elia Kazan's Man on a Tightrope (both 1953). Dave and Elise are somewhat at odds about the effec…

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted talks about the great crowd at Levi's Stadium last Saturday, the loss to LAFC, while looking ahead to the final four games, and the Quakes' ability to punch ... 43:51

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted talks about the great crowd at Levi's Stadium last Saturday, the loss to LAFC, while looking ahead to the final four games, and the Quakes' ability to punch their ticket. Then he chats with Calen Carr of MLS Season Pass on Apple TV to preview Saturday's game, and Joey Zanaboni, the radio play by play vo…

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted talks frustration after Saturday's loss to St Louis, where the team sits in the standings heading into these final few games, then chats with Neil Sika of ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted talks frustration after Saturday's loss to St Louis, where the team sits in the standings heading into these final few games, then chats with Neil Sika of MLS Season Pass, and then is joined by Marvell Wynne, now podcasting with San Diego FC, who San Jose faces on Saturday. See omnystudio.com/listener f…

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Special Subject - Accents on Olivier – THE 49th PARALLEL (1941) and THE DEMI-PARADISE (1943) 1:09:19

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Our Special Subject for September 2025 led us to watch a couple of wartime British films starring Laurence Olivier and his amazing accents: Québécois in Powell and Pressburger's The 49th Parallel (1941), which opposes a Platonic Idea of Canada to Nazi ideology, and Russian in Anthony Asquith's The Demi-Paradise (1943), an alarmingly Soviet-friendly…

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over San Jose's path to the playoffs, previews Saturday's game with Tyler Terens of MLS Season Pass on Apple TV, and talks USMNT ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over San Jose's path to the playoffs, previews Saturday's game with Tyler Terens of MLS Season Pass on Apple TV, and talks USMNT. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cumulus Media San Francisco

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1932: TAXI! & THREE ON A MATCH 53:27

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This Warner Bros. 1932 episode is a double feature of Glasmon-Bright scripts directed by Pre-Code wizards: Mervyn LeRoy's Three on a Match, a tight little melodrama about the cryptic and arbitrary nature of self-destruction with Ann Dvorak as a wealthy housewife beset by ennui; and Roy Del Ruth's Taxi!, in which Loretta Young has to stand up to Jam…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 7: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952) and THE GLASS WALL (1953) 1:00:10

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Our Gloria Grahame Acteurist Oeuvreview recovers from last week's rough spot with two excellent roles in two excellent films that display her range as a character actress. In Vicente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), for which Gloria won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, she's a sweet but silly Southern belle curiously sacrificed by …

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over the critical path ahead for San Jose as they push towards the playoffs, and breaks down many storylines surrounding the ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over the critical path ahead for San Jose as they push towards the playoffs, and breaks down many storylines surrounding the team with Kasey Kazliner of Quakes Epicenter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cumulus Media San Francisco

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes talks about the Earthquakes form heading into the game against Austin, and then previews the match with Lloyd Sam of MLS Season ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes talks about the Earthquakes form heading into the game against Austin, and then previews the match with Lloyd Sam of MLS Season Pass on Apple TV, and then chats with Lincoln Rose, the radio play by play announcer of Austin FC. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1932: BLONDIE OF THE FOLLIES & FAITHLESS 1:09:41

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This 1932 MGM Studios Year by Year episode is a Robert Montgomery double feature, although the spotlight is on his leading ladies: an incandescent Marion Davies in Blondie of the Follies (directed by Edmund Goulding), and a distraught Tallulah Bankhead in Faithless (directed by Harry Beaumont). We discuss the strengths and incoherencies of Anita Lo…

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Special Subject - Orson Welles and Jeanne Moreau – THE TRIAL (1962); CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1965); and THE IMMORTAL STORY (1968) 1:10:54

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Our August Special Subject is Literature vs. Welles vs. Moreau: we discuss the three finished films that Orson Welles made with Jeanne Moreau, whom he considered "the greatest actress in the world." The Trial (1962) stars Anthony Perkins in an adaptation of the Kafka novel; Chimes at Midnight (1965) stars Welles as Falstaff in an adaptation of Shak…

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On the latest edition of The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over Sunday's 2-1 loss to San Diego, hears the reaction from Head Coach Bruce Arena and midfielder Noel Buck, and then chats with Jamie Watson of MLS ... 43:50

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On the latest edition of The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over Sunday's 2-1 loss to San Diego, hears the reaction from Head Coach Bruce Arena and midfielder Noel Buck, and then chats with Jamie Watson of MLS Season Pass who will be calling this upcoming Saturday's game at Houston. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 6: MACAO (1952) and SUDDEN FEAR (1952) 1:02:46

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In this episode of our Gloria Grahame Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, our protagonist is rudely shoved into the background of the movies, barely appearing in Josef von Sternberg's Macao (1950) (she would have liked to have appeared in it even less) and playing a rote schemer in David Miller's Sudden Fear (1952). The movies themselves don't make up f…

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over Saturday's big win over Vancouver, previews Sunday's first ever matchup against San Diego, and gets into post game reaction from Head Coach Bruce ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over Saturday's big win over Vancouver, previews Sunday's first ever matchup against San Diego, and gets into post game reaction from Head Coach Bruce Arena, and game winning goal scorer, Preston Judd. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount – 1932: THE MAN I KILLED aka BROKEN LULLABY & HORSE FEATHERS 1:00:04

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For this round of Paramount 1932, we watched our first Marx Brothers movie for the podcast (hard as that is to believe), Horse Feathers (directed by Norman Z. MacLeod), alongside Ernst Lubitsch's only sound-era drama, Broken Lullaby. Lubitsch's batshit WWI melodrama, bursting with intensity and unease, claims our attention first, and then we turn t…

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over the squad as they gear up for the final nine games of the season, currently one point out of the playoffs. San Jose hosts ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over the squad as they gear up for the final nine games of the season, currently one point out of the playoffs. San Jose hosts Vancouver on Saturday night from PayPal Park at 730pm. Catch the broadcast on 810 KSFO. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 5: IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) and THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952) 1:13:21

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This week in our Gloria Grahame Acteurist Oeuvre-view we watched one of her best-known films, In a Lonely Place (1950), directed by Nicholas Ray and co-starring Humphrey Bogart, alongside the unpromising Cecil B. DeMille circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). This may be the only time you find these two movies discussed together with rough…

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over the loss in Salt Lake, hears postgame reaction from Head Coach Bruce Arena, and replays an interview with Preston Judd. 43:50

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over the loss in Salt Lake, hears postgame reaction from Head Coach Bruce Arena, and replays an interview with Preston Judd. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cumulus Media San Francisco

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1931: BAD SISTER & STRICTLY DISHONORABLE 58:57

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For our Universal 1931 Studios Year by Year episode we took in a Sidney Fox double feature, Bad Sister (adapted from a Booth Tarkington novel, with an early role for Bette Davis as the good sister) and Strictly Dishonorable (adapted from Preston Sturges' only successful play and directed by John Stahl). Laemmle Jr.'s protegée uses her ingenue quali…

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over last Saturday's game in Seattle, talks about what went right, and what went wrong, hears postgame reaction from Preston Judd, and Bruce Arena, and ... 43:51

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On the latest episode of The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over last Saturday's game in Seattle, talks about what went right, and what went wrong, hears postgame reaction from Preston Judd, and Bruce Arena, and then previews Saturday's game with Mark Rogondino of MLS Season Pass on Apple TV. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Special Subject - Supported By Oscar Levant – the 1950s – AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951); THE I DON'T CARE GIRL (1953) & THE BAND WAGON (1953) 1:03:34

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Our final Oscar Levant Special Subject episode covers his contribution to two of the greatest MGM musicals, Vincente Minnelli's An American in Paris (1951) and The Band Wagon (1953), plus a 20th Century Fox curiosity, The I Don't Care Girl (1953) in which Mitzi Gaynor supposedly plays early 20th century vaudeville wild woman Eva Tanguay. Levant rea…

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The Soccer Hour 7-17: “On this weeks edition of The Soccer Hour, Ted chats with Jamie Watson and Josh Eastern of MLS Season Pass on AppleTV” 43:50

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“On this weeks edition of The Soccer Hour, Ted chats with Jamie Watson and Josh Eastern of MLS Season Pass on AppleTV” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cumulus Media San Francisco

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1931: CIMARRON (dir. Wesley Ruggles) and TRAVELING HUSBANDS (dir. Paul Sloane) 1:02:39

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The movies we viewed for this RKO 1931 Studios Year by Year episode couldn't be more different: the sprawling Cimarron (starring Richard Dix as America's psychotic inner conflict) prompts us to speculate about Edna Ferber as a source auteur and the intertwining of her vision of America with Hollywood across three decades; while the tight, play-like…

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over the team's recent play in MLS and the Open Cup, gets into postgame reaction from Head Coach Bruce Arena after Tuesday night ... 43:37

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted goes over the team's recent play in MLS and the Open Cup, gets into postgame reaction from Head Coach Bruce Arena after Tuesday night's Open Cup loss to Austin, and then previews Saturday's match visiting Minnesota with Kyndra De St. Aubin of MLS Season Pass on Apple TV. See omn…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 4: A WOMAN'S SECRET (1948) and ROUGHSHOD (1949) 53:50

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Our Gloria Grahame Acteurist Oeuvre-view continues with A Woman's Secret (1949), an oddball psychological drama with a screenplay by Citizen Kane writer Herman J. Mankiewicz and directed by Grahame's new husband Nicholas Ray; and Roughshod (1949), a consciously feminist Western written by a bunch of leftists. Proving her versatility-within-typecast…

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted talks about the Saturday draw against LA, maximizing the remainder of the home schedule, and then chats with Quakes forward, Preston ... 43:50

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On the latest episode of The San Jose Earthquakes The Soccer Hour, Ted talks about the Saturday draw against LA, maximizing the remainder of the home schedule, and then chats with Quakes forward, Preston Judd, then previews Saturday's game against New York with Red Bulls radio play by play voice, Matt Harmon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Fox Film Corporation – 1931: A CONNECTICUT YANKEE and SURRENDER 59:01

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A curious pairing for this Fox 1931 Studios Year by Year episode: an unsung WWI drama, but as good as any, William K. Howard's Surrender, starring Warner Baxter, Leila Hyams, and an almost unrecognizable (both his appearance and his performance) Ralph Bellamy; and the Will Rogers version of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which mainly …

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Special Subject - Farrow vs. Allen – Part 4: ALICE (1990); SHADOWS AND FOG (1991) & HUSBANDS AND WIVES (1992) 1:08:11

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We say farewell to Farrow and Allen (for now, although we'll probably encounter them individually on the podcast again) with this final episode on their cinematic collaboration, covering Alice (1990), Shadows and Fog (1991), and one of their very best, the ill-fated Husbands and Wives (1992). In the first two, two more Allen characters struggle to …

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 3: SONG OF THE THIN MAN (1947) and MERTON OF THE MOVIES (1947) 42:59

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In this Gloria Grahame Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode we get to see more of what MGM was (not) doing with our acteur's career. Underused in Song of the Thin Man (1947), in which she brings the only real noir energy to the final Thin Man film, she gets a similarly brief but memorable role in the Red Skelton vehicle Merton of the Movies (1947), playin…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers - 1931: NIGHT NURSE & BLONDE CRAZY 53:49

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This round of Warner Bros. 1931 brings us two gems by a couple of Pre-Code masters, Roy Del Ruth's Blonde Crazy and William A. Wellman's Night Nurse, showing off the early star charisma of Jimmy Cagney (oozing vulnerability) and Barbara Stanwyck (spitting fire), ably supported by Joan Blondell in both cases. Bonus: Young Clark Gable shows up for an…