Oct 28, 2021
Happy Halloweenies, to all our little bunniculas. This week we are having a hauntingly good time with Emmy and Oscar-nominee JoBeth Williams. You Might Know Her From The Big Chill, Kramer vs. Kramer, American Dreamer, Wyatt Earp, Frasier, Stir Crazy, Jungle 2 Jungle, Dexter, Poltergeist, and Poltergeist II: The Other Side. We talked to JoBeth about the Poltergeist films with shocking reveals about the props, Zelda Rubinstein, and the grueling stunts that left her bloody. We also dug into her theatre beginnings with Raúl Juliá at Williamstown, her nude scene in her film debut, Kramer vs. Kramer, stealing from Little Edie in Me, Myself, and I, headlining the ‘80s rom-com American Dreamer on location in Paris, and the incestuous dating history of The Big Chill cast. This one was a true candy cornucopia of tricks and treats.
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Anne’s nephew playing in a local band with 19 and 31 year olds: Lauren Stokes Band
Nirvana’s cover of the Vaselines’ “Molly’s Lips”
Saved by the Bell: Zack Attack, Hot Sundae, The Five Aces
Leanna Creel (aka Tori from SBTB) was also in Parent Trap 3
Jojo Siwa dancing to Grease with her dance partner Jenna on Dancing with the Stars
Anne Heche (YMKHF Ep #82 ) where she talks about getting voted off DWTS
Lori Loughlin’s daughter was saved over Mel C?!?
We both love Tom Bergeron
Anne learned about Jojo Siwa from Lemon’s Snatch Game on Drag Race Canada
Miriam Margoyles is someone we need to get on the show
Jobeth did Threepenny Opera, Ah, Wilderness!, and musical Juno and the Paycock! at Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1974
1984’s American Dreamer, an underrated classic where Jobeth plays a housewife turned novelist
Me, Myself, and I with George Segal
Acted opposite a number of funny men: Gene WIlder, Richard Pryor, Billy Crystal, Alan King
Goldie Hawn in Private Benjamin is the gold standard
Kramer vs Kramer nude scene is so funny
3 weeks of rehearsal The Big Chill
Briefly dated Kevin Kline prior to The Big Chill (who also dated Patti Lupone and Glenn Close)
Larry Kasdan wrote Karen for Jobeth
Worked with Kevin Costner in Wyatt Earp
Diane Freeling in the classic Poltergeist
Julian Beck was old man in Poltergeist II. He co-founded The Living Theatre
Zelda Rubinstein had TALL boyfriends
Sam Rockwell called Jobeth before starting on the Poltergeist reboot
On Hope, was a short film Jobeth directed (written by Lynn Mamet) and got nominated for an Oscar (with Veronica Cartwright, Annette O’Toole, Mercedes Ruehl
Was SAG Foundation President and is involved in crafting the SAG Awards
Stop or My Mom Will Shoot opposite Sly Stallone and Estelle Getty
Killed Craig T Nelson, Fucked TIm Allen, married Ed O Neill
Turned down The Natural and Murphy Brown
Didn’t get Fatal Attraction (director saw her as the wife role that eventually went to Anne Archer, a scientologist)
Jobeth’s husband is a director, John Pasquin
Sidney Poitier directed her on Stir Crazy and Richard Pryor was struggling with drugs at the time
Gloria Vane was an extravagant, expensive sitcom set in the 30s where Jobeth played a spoiled movie star
Starred in the Blake Edwards movie, Switch is a wild ride where she kills a man who comes back from the dead as a woman (Ellen Barkin). She gets seduced by Lorraine Bracco
Does play a lesbian with Penelope Ann Miller in Little City (1999)
Anne Archer is Tommy Davis who is a henchman for Scientology (sadly not David Miscavige)