60. A Room with a View

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we revisit E.M. Forster with a look at A Room with a View!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Forster’s original 1908 novel. Read it on iBooks or Amazon.
• The 1985 Merchant Ivory film adaptation, directed by James Ivory, written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, and Daniel Day-Lewis. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2007 television movie from ITV, directed by Nicholas Renton, written by Andrew Davies, and starring Elaine Cassidy, Rafe Spall, Timothy Spall, and Sophie Thompson. Watch it on Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Our episode on Howards End
• LibriVox’s dramatized reading of A Room with a View, starring Arielle Lipshaw

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59. The Bad News Bears

Before Little Giants, before The Mighty Ducks, before The Sandlot, there was The Bad News Bears! And it’s time for Adapt or Perish to step up to the plate and take a look at this true sports classic.

For this episode, we watched and discussed:

• The 1976 original movie, directed by Michael Ritchie, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2005 remake, directed by Richard Linklater, written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, and Marcia Gay Harden. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
• The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
• The Bad News Bears on CBS (1979–1980)
• School of Rock (2003)
• Bad Santa (2003)

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58. Sabrina

In this very special, extra romantic and not at all problematic episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the the classic tale of love and deception among the elites, Sabrina!

For this episode, we watched and discussed:

• The 1954 original, directed by Billy Wilder, written by Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, and Ernest Lehman, and starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 1995 remake, directed by Sidney Pollack, written by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel, and starring Julia Ormond, Harrison Ford, and Greg Kinnear. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Sabrina Fair, the original 1953 play written by Samuel A. Taylor that served as the basis for the 1954 movie

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