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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, with special guests Charlene Lydon and Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.

This time, Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot.

In late 1920s Chicago, band members Joe and Jerry witness a brutal mob hit. Forced to flee for their lives, the pair disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band taking a trip down to Florida for the winter. However, things very quickly become complicated when the duo encounter a blonde bombshell Sugar Kowalczyk and attract the romantic attentions of a lonely millionaire named Osgood Fielding III. Hilarity ensues.

At time of recording, it was ranked 136th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 24th November 2021.
• Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
• Some Like It Hot at The Internet Movie Database.
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• Paul Whitington at The Irish Independent argues that Some Like It Hot is a Christmas movie, November 2018.
• Tony Sokol at Den of Geek looks at portrayals of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in popular culture, February 2019.
• Jack Mathews at Gold Derby looks at how Some Like It Hot turned the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre into the basis of a farce, February 2018.
• Open Culture looks back at Ted Turner’s attempts to colourise Citizen Kane, October 2019.
• John Voland at The Los Angeles Times reports on Ted Turner’s obsession with colourising black-and-white films, October 1986.
• Michael Pappas at BBC Arts looks at how It’s a Wonderful Life became a Christmas classic, December 2019.
• The New York Times reports on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Films list, June 1998.
• Deseret News reports on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Laughs list, June 2000.
• Patricia Ward at The Los Angeles Times looks back on the production of Some Like It Hot, July 1996.
• Billy Wilder talks to Richard Gehman about shooting in colour, reprinted in Billy Wilder: Interviews, 1960.
• Bob Mondello at NPR discusses how many children actively avoid “G” rated films, June 2013.
• Rebecca Keegan at The Hollywood Reporter looks at the death of the “G” rating, August 2019.
• Bob Mondello at NPR looks back on how the Hays Code shaped Hollywood, August 2008.
• Alyssa Rosenberg at The Washington Post looks at Hollywood’s long-standing fear of censorship, July 2015.
• Les Fabian Brathwaite at IndieWire looks at the queercoding that Some Like It Hot sneaks past the censors, March 2014.
• Miranda Corcoran at Diabolique discusses the moral outrage over Some Like It Hot, October 2019.
• Lee Smith at CNN looks at how movie ratings evolved over the course of the sixties, August 2014.
• Scott Tobias at The Guardian looks at the legacy of Midnight Cowboy, the “X” rated Best Picture Winner, May 2019.
• Ridley Scott appears on WTF…? with Marc Maron, November 2021.
• David Sims reviews House of Gucci for The Atlantic, November 2021.
• Jared Leto boasts to The Independent about how his performance in House of Gucci is a love letter to Italy, November 2021.
• Sam Wasson at Criterion discusses how Some Like It Hot plays with genre expectations, November 2018.
• A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis at The New York Times examine the silliness and semiotics of Some Like It Hot, June 2020.
• The AFI Catalogue looks at Some Like It Hot.
• The Telegraph argues for “nobody’s perfect” as one of the best closing lines in the history of film, April 2016.
• Tony Curtis talks to Entertainment Weekly about working on Some Like It Hot, July 2006.
• Coeli Carr at ABC looks back on Tony Curtis’ performance in Some Like It Hot, September 2010.
• Matthew Hammett Knott at IndieWire discusses the feminism of Tootsie, August 2013.
• Martie Fad at The Washington Post discusses comparisons between Some Like It Hot and Tootsie, May 2001.
• Derek Lawrence at Entertainment Weekly compiles an oral history of White Chicks, May 2020.
• Darren Mooney reviews Profit and Lace at the m0vie blog, May 2017.
• Samantha Riedel at Them.us looks at tensions between the drag and transgender communities, March 2018.
• Natasha Troop writes at Medium about interrogating Some Like It Hot through the lens of transgender criticism, April 2016.
• Jeff Saporito at The Take argues that Some Like It Hot challenged the gender conventions of the time, August 2020.
• John Patterson at The Guardian explores Billy Wilder’s complicated relationship to women, June 2012.
• The Telegraph looks back at on-set tension between Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe, February 2020.
• The AFI revisits Billy Wilder’s opinion on directing Marilyn Monroe, June 2012.
• Brent Lang at Yahoo! looks back on the troubled production of Some Like It Hot, June 2021.
• Tony Curtis talks to The Guardian about working with Marilyn Monroe on Some Like It Hot, August 2009.
• Caitlin Flanagan at The Atlantic discusses the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, March 2013.
• Open Culture takes a trip inside Marilyn Monroe’s library, October 2014.
• The New York Times looks at the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe, August 1962.
• Anthony Lane at The New Yorker goes behind the scenes on the production of Some Like It Hot, October 2001.
• Tony Curtis talks to Fresh Air about his sexuality on screen, October 2010.
• Bob Gutowski at DVD Talk discusses the dubbing of Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot, June 1999.
• Paul Frees talks to The New York Times about his career as a voice dubbing artist, February 1992.
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