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Podcast: Old Roommates
Episode: Ep 245: "Postcards From the Edge" Revisited
Description: âIt twirrrrrrled up!â Back in 1990, Mike Nicholsâ âPostcards from the Edgeâ also twirled up some big box office. Meryl Streep and Shirley Maclaine laughed, cried, and sang their way to critical and audience acclaim, thanks Carrie Fisherâs acerbic script, loosely based on Fisherâs life and best-selling novel. But these days, how much sympathy can we truly âtwirl upâ for these privileged, fictious, and moneyed movie stars? Do we still buy Ms. Meryl as a recovering pill-popping drug addict? Would we have fallen for Dennis Quaidâs pickup lines? The Old Roommates grab their middle-aged ammo (donât worry, theyâre blanks) and gi...