50. Charlotte's Web

It’s episode 50! This is crazy! In this milestone episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the stone-cold children’s classic Charlotte’s Web!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• E.B. White’s original 1952 novel. Read it on iBooks or Amazon.
• The 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated musical, directed by Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto, written by Earl Hamner Jr., and starring Henry Gibson, Debbie Reynolds, and Paul Lynde. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2006 live action movie, directed by Gary Winick, written by Susannah Grant and Karey Kirkpatrick, and starring Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, and Sam Shepard. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• E.B. White’s “A book is a sneeze” from Letters of Note
• John Hodgman, fellow podcaster and peer, of Judge John Hodgman
• “How to Succeed in Animation Chapter 28: A Tangled Web” by Gene Deitch
• “There Must Be Something More” from the 1973 Charlotte’s Web
• Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and fellow Boston podcast Every Lady Needs a Hobby
• Actor Kevin Anderson’s IMDb bio

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49. The Karate Kid

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we wax on, we wax off, and we get into the ring with The Karate Kid!

For this episode, we watched:

• The original movie from 1984, directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Robert Mark Kamen, and starring Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, Elisabeth Shue, and William Zabka. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2010 remake, directed by Harald Zwart, written by Christopher Murphey, and starring Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, and Taraji P. Henson. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• The Karate Kid series: The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), and The Next Karate Kid (1994)
• My Cousin Vinny
• “Jackie Chan: How to Do Action Comedy” from Every Frame a Painting

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48. Howards End

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Howards End, E.M. Forster’s classic tale of class relations in turn of the century Britain.

For this episode, we read and watched:

• E.M. Forster’s original 1910 novel. Read it on iBooks or Amazon.
• The 1992 movie, directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, and Helena Bonham Carter. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2017 miniseries, directed by Hettie MacDonald, written by Kenneth Lonergan, and starring Hayley Atwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Philippa Coulthard, Tracey Ullman, and Julia Ormond. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• A Room with a View, A Passage to India, and Maurice
• “Common People” by Pulp
• James Ivory accepting the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for Call Me By Your Name
• James Ivory discusses Howards End at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
• “This Time Tomorrow” by The Kinks as used in Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited
• “Blink” from Series 3 of the BBC’s Doctor Who reboot

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