Joe and Megan converse with me about conversations, we neurologically probe the smell of toast, and we are treated to a ditty by Scatman Crothers.

 

Download the file here: Shining Episode 13

 

 

An interview from 1980 with Mick Garris. Scatman sings at about 3:00.

 

Scatman and Redd Foxx on Sandford and Son in 1975

 

The coin toss scene in No Country for Old Men(2007), directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, with Javier Bardem and Gene Jones

 

Orson Welles and James Cotton in The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed.

 

Peter Boyle and Robert DeNiro in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976)

 

John Huston and Jack Nicholson in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974)

 

Toni Collette and Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999), directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Put the two scenes together…

 

 

Martin Landau and Sam Waterson in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

 

Lots of great conversation scenes in Alex Cox’s Repo Man (1984), here with Emilio Estevez and Fox Harris.

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