Eric McCormack: What I'm Obsessed With

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00:00I'm Eric McCormack, and this is what I am currently obsessed with.

00:05This is an old one that I just rewatched for, I think, the 30th time, but one of my great

00:11obsessions is a movie called Being There with Peter Sellers, developing a show about a character

00:18very similar to the character he plays in that, Chauncey Gardner.

00:21So if you haven't seen Being There, I'm obsessed with it.

00:25I just finished season two of The Diplomat, awesome, obsessed, need to know what's going

00:32to happen, greatest sort of season two ending moment, didn't see it coming, obsessed.

00:40Great cast, Allison Janney's showing up, my friend Michael McKeon is the president, just

00:47great, surprising, grown up material, I know what it is.

00:54There's a song I've become obsessed with in the last, I would say, month, but it is not

00:59a new song, in fact it's 50 years old, by a band called Jigsaw.

01:04They had a big hit called Sky High by 1975, always loved it, but the song I've become obsessed

01:10with is called Who Do You Think You Are?

01:14Look it up, Jigsaw, Who Do You Think You Are?

01:17One of the great piano openings of all time.

01:20There's a great book, I'm getting the title wrong, it's by my friend Dave Carter, it's

01:27called Fifty Nights of Oscar, and it's anyone that's won an Oscar for any department, actors,

01:36sound designers, whatever, talking about their night, the night they, the moment they won,

01:42and the rest of that night, and it's a great, it's just a great oral history of that, and

01:46he's doing another one about favorite movies that I'm going to be part of, 50 of us talking

01:53about our 50, our first favorite movie, so.

01:56I just started listening to a podcast called Someone Knows Something, which is a true crime

02:04one.

02:05I'm not a big true crime guy, but these are great unsolved cases, it's Canadian, so a lot

02:13of the first few seasons, and we are all Canadian, and it's quite addictive, someone knows something.