Episode 059 - Fargo and The Apartment

Episode 059 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie.   This week Charlie has selected ‘The Apartment’ from 1960, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine and Fred MacMurray. Insurance worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his Upper West Side apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) begins using Baxter's apartment in exchange for promoting him, Baxter is disappointed to learn that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the elevator girl at work whom Baxter is interested in himself. Soon Baxter must decide between the girl he loves and the advancement of his career. Charlie’s second pick is from 1996 and is the Coen Brothers’ classic ‘Fargo’. "Fargo" is a reality-based crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi), (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell), paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper.   There is also some welcome audio feedback from our good friend Tom from the Anywhere But Here podcast giving us his thoughts on Pan’s Labyrinth.   You can find this and all of our other episodes at iTunes, Stitcher Radio and our website   http://www.stinkingpause.com/ Follow us on Twitter   @StinkingPause   or join the Facebook group Emails and mp3’s to   [email protected]   You also find all of Tom’s podcasts over at   http://abhpod.com/   Thanks for listening Scott and Charlie