Another Kind Of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol And Nostalgia Podcast

Our MGM 1942 episode is a problematic Spencer Tracy double feature in which we're treated to the full range of his persona, from smug saint to semi-demon: George Stevens' brilliant but flawed Woman of the Year, the first Hepburn-Tracy romantic comedy, and Victor Fleming's Tortilla Flat, in which Tracy co-stars with John Garfield, Akim Tamiroff, and Frank Morgan as John Steinbeck's idea of Monterey, California paisanos. We try to explain just how Woman of the Year's humanist critique of feminism ends up going so badly wrong, but defend its infamous ending, before moving on to Tortilla Flat's critique of the work ethic and property ownership. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we react to a 35th anniversary screening of Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin buddy pic Midnight Run.   Time Codes: 0h 00m 45s:      WOMAN OF THE YEAR [dir. George Stevens] 0h 46m 58s:      TORTILLA FLAT [dir. Victor Fleming] 1h 10m 55s:      FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TOROTNTO – Midnight Run (1988)   Studio Film Capsules provided by Th