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Podcast: Old Roommates
Episode: Ep 219: "On Golden Pond" Revisited
Description: You old poop! You gotta give it to the late-great Katherine Hepburn. The then-74-year-old icon lifted lumber, rowed boats, and even dove into rocky waters for 1981’s On Golden Pond. Hepburn and Henry Fonda would go on to win Oscars for their roles. But now, in a time when age is just a number and our world leaders are older than the fictional Thayers, does this drama need a nitroglycerin pill? And why is Jane Fonda’s character such a brat? The Old Roommates do a gosh darn back flip and rewatch it all through their middle-aged lens. Listen to t...