WEBVTT - Mini Crush #6 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.720 Hey everybody, and welcome to a movie crush Charles W. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.880 Chuck Bryant here in our home studio at Pont City Market, Atlanta, Georgia, 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:34.400 along with the sunny and bright and well coft Noel. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.320 Thank you for commenting on my quaffery, Chuck, I appreciate 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.479 that I've been working on it. Well. No One and 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.360 I both have these uh big dumb beards, like all 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.440 all guys have. I can't wait for the day we 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.080 look back at pictures and everyone goes, what what the 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.640 funk were we all doing? Well? Apparently beards are out, Chuck, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.239 But I've never worn my beard for fashion. It is 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.120 just strictly to hide my double chance. Oh yes, I 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.120 have quite a few chins under here as well, and 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.000 it does a great job. But not only staid, big 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.920 shaggy here too. But in uh, you gotta cut what 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.600 six months ago? So I got a promotion at work, Chuck, 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.000 and I had to I had to have the dude 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.280 had to match the Yeah, they say, dressed for the 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.039 job you want, in this case, it's cut your hair 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.560 for the job you got exactly sort of reverse and 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.480 Alex just cut his hair looks very nice. He did 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.280 he's getting married soon. That might be wine. Okay, so 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.720 that was his his lovely bride to be at the 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.760 Christmas party. Yes, she's delightful you No, that was someone else. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.920 Alex is another guy we work with, a producer who 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.000 did the music for my other podcast, Ridiculous History, which 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.600 we get comments on all the time. He's another um 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.360 jack of all trades, how stuff works, super producer. Yeah, man, 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.640 he's great. Interesting is great. We have such an amazing 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.800 teen Did all these guys come through you? Man? You 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.840 can find him very lucky, very lucky to be able 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.760 to give amazing people an amazing opportunity here. Well, and 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.160 it's cool because all of these editors and engineers, like 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.480 you said, jack of all trades, it's like they're all 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.880 musicians and and I assume him originally probably a video 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:06.200 and film editors. Yeah, it's great. And Alex, by the way, 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:11.240 is one of the lead hands on Atlanta Monster, which 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.280 is our partnership with Tenderfoot TV and true crime show 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.120 about the Atlanta child murders that has blown up the 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.680 podcasting world's true setting the charts on fire. Yeah, I'm 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.520 a fan. Actually, I've been listening every week because I 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.000 grew up during the Atlanta child murders, and even as 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:32.480 a white suburban kid in Atlanta, it was scary at 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.520 the time. You talked about that a good bit with 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.679 your buddy Dave Willis, who also grew up in the area, 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.040 about how that sort of was a specter hanging over, 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.239 like parents didn't want you to go to the mall 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:45.720 by yourself. Yeah, that's a real thing. So welcome every one. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.440 As you know, follow us on facebooks, you can interact 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.680 with the show where we post questions and we call emails, 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.120 and we have a few segments that we're gonna do 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.080 today and number one we'll go ahead and get right 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:01.680 into it called Grip This it's a new one. I 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:05.440 like it. So the idea here is that occasionally I 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:10.400 will explain something about the film industry and these weird 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.000 uh names and title job titles that you see on 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.240 the movie screen in front of you. Because I take 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.000 it for granted because I worked in the film industry 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.120 that everyone knows what a dolly grip is and what 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.400 a fully artist is uh and what a gaffer is. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:25.960 But um, a lot of people don't know this stuff. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.399 And we get emails from time to time saying, hey, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.280 you guys, you and Josh on stuff you should know, 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.240 should do a podcast just explaining what these jobs are 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:38.320 in film crews. So I'm gonna do that here. Uh, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.440 in this segment of Grip This, I'm going to talk about, uh, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:45.640 the job of producer. And this is a this is 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.640 a weird, weird job in the movie industry because a 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:55.080 producer can be everything from uh, strictly the financier of 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.120 your project, all the way down to and in that 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.520 case would be an acutive producer, almost assuredly, all the 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.200 way down to an associate producer who it might just 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.000 be someone who did you a favor that allowed you 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.520 to shoot one scene for a movie, and so in 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.400 lieu of money, they might say, all right, we'll give 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.640 you an associate producer credit. And sometimes that works, believe 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.479 it or not. So we're gonna go through a few 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:23.080 of these various titles. Executive producer obviously is at the top. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.440 And like I said, um, they could be the financier 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.479 of the movie. They can be, um, the the head 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.880 of the studio that you are working with, um, like 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.840 a Steven Spielberg, let's say. And as an executive producer 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.840 in that case it can. It can run the gamut 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.120 from someone who just says, I allow you to go 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.360 make this movie with our studio. Um too. Maybe they 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.080 will even oversee parts of it and weigh in creatively 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:55.920 at times, or help make connections two actors or or writers, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.719 or pull the crew together as a director and maybe 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.720 package it it. Really, there is no set script for 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.239 what an executive producer might do. That could be super 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.760 involved or not very involved. And you see stars and 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.440 TV shows get elevated to executive producer as they learned more. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.960 Cache absolutely, like of the Office, a lot of main 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.479 players at later seasons you see them with executive producer credits. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.040 Yeah that's a that's a true U H up the 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.640 ladder type of thing. And actually, when Josh and I 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.200 did our silly little TV show for Science Channel, one 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.560 of the things that we negotiated was producer credit. Um, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.080 I don't even know why, just a little feather in 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.039 the cap. Although we did do the job of producer. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.479 I mean we were involved soup the nuts in that show. 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:41.360 Uh So executive producer again, uh might represent the studio. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.120 They might keep watch over it, or maybe it's just 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:49.480 symbolic to give the movie visibility. UM. For instance, George 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.560 Clooney was an executive producer of the great great movie 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.720 Far from Heaven. UM, but he didn't he wasn't really 0:05:55.760 --> 0:06:00.160 on the set um making decisions, but he did has 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.200 something to do with it early on. So sometimes I 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.120 will just give a little cash at associate producer, Like 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.440 I said, well, let's go just with the regular producer title. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.960 This can be a lot of things because you can 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.839 see a lot of producers listed on a movie. But 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.080 when I think of producer with just that title, I 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.320 think of the main person who was working on this 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.120 movie from beginning to end, hand in hand with the director, 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:34.279 um packaging the movie, working with the crew, were casting, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.560 helping with casting, really just sort of the partner of 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:42.359 the director going into battle together to get this movie made. UM. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.880 Since we're on Far from Heaven. The great Christine Vashon 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.960 was a producer of that, and she's one of the 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.600 all time great producers. Has a stellar sellar list of 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.400 credits to her name. And Christine Vashon is of feet 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.200 to the ground, get down to it, nitty gritty producer 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.360 involved in reaspect of the making of the movie from 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.680 the very beginning to the very end UM. But producer 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.760 can also mean you're just you know, sort of involved 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:12.760 or maybe one of the actors assistant producer. They basically 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.520 work on things that the producers tell you to do. 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.880 So it's just sort of a h almost like a 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.960 co producer. But then there's also a credit of co 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:27.640 producer and they share responsibilities responsibilities generally as a group 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.520 and as a team of producers. UM. Maybe take on 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.840 some creative responsibilities. Another co producer might handle more of 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:39.440 the business um. But then you also have the line producer, 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:44.960 and the line producer generally is handling the budgetary things, uh, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:49.200 the physical aspects of the movie production. UM, not as 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.440 involved creatively, but they're really their day to day UM, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.280 making sure that everything is all departments have what they 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:01.920 need uh and and have the money they need or 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:03.640 in some cases they don't have the money and they 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.480 have to figure out how to do it anyway. So 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.680 that's the line producer. UM. The associate producer, like I said, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.920 can be they can be involved UM or it can 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:15.560 be like I said, like a title that you just 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.640 throw out to someone who did you a little favor. Uh, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.240 it's like a courtesy title. Sometimes as a backer of 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.600 the film. Uh. They may not play a major role 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.880 at all, but sometimes they have worked on the movie. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:33.240 It's a very um nebulous sort of gray area for 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.680 a lot of these titles. I think you're starting to 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:40.760 get that picture. Um. Supervising producer. They can oversee some 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.040 of the other producers as they perform some of their duties. Uh. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.600 Sometimes they may take the place of an executive producer 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.920 or work for the executive producer. Uh. And then you 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.000 have finally the coordinating producer, and they coordinate the work 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:58.040 of several producers. Is it's starting to get that thing 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.560 where you say the producer where so many times starts 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:06.080 to sound funny. Producer overload, recording producers are They're very 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.840 valuable if a studio is producing related films. And the 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.559 example here on how stuff works is the movie Spider Man. 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.720 When you have um two related films being produced at 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.600 the same time, um, like the Pirates of the Caribbean 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.400 or the Spider Man movies, or like when they did 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.800 Lord of the Rings altogether. Sometimes a coordinating producer might 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.079 make sure all the various heads are talking to one 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.840 another well, especially if there's like Marvel Cinematic Universe types 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.200 where there has to be continuity from one movie to 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.040 the next, and they have to know what the other 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.560 crew is doing in order for the one crew to 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.920 do it right. You know, absolutely, So that is grip 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.160 this for this week and what's the best boy, Chuck? Oh, well, 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.040 we'll get to that. So hopefully that cleared things up, 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.120 but I have a feeling I've just really confused everyone 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.400 further on what a producer is. I once met this guy, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.560 Dean Zanek, who is the son of famed producer Richard Zanek, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.079 who also related to Darryl Zannek. Yeah, and Dean was 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.000 producing this movie Get Low With that had Bill Murray 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:05.800 and it Yeah, I remember that movie. It was good. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.920 But they shot it near my hometown of Adusta, Georgia, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:09.240 and I did a piece on it for a public 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:10.800 radio and I got to go to the set. They 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.000 shot it in a town called Crawfordville, and I kind 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.480 of asked Dean what a producer was or how do 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.720 you become a producer And there was no real clear answer. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.920 That's an adorable question from you at that age two, Yeah, 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:23.600 exactly what he was sort of like, you know, the 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:28.200 ultimate answer was you you're the son of Richard's you know, yeah, 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.840 it is a getting into the job of producer is 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.720 kind of weird. And like Emily, my wife was a producer, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:41.440 she'd produced music videos. And in that case, the path 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.439 to producer is you usually start work as a p 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.120 A and then you move up to maybe production coordinator, 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.160 and then you move up to production manager or maybe 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.000 u PM unit production manager, and eventually you can get 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.439 work as a producer, and then the line producer is 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.520 sort of attainable too. Isn't that a little bit more 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.960 functional job that aolutely That's like you're you're handling the 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.400 money in the budget and uh uh. And those you know, 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.640 like Emily as a producer unfortunately wasn't super involved creatively. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.600 They are the people responsible for pulling off that job. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.040 And then the case of music videos, that is a tough, 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.559 tough job, or at least was back then. I don't 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.320 even know if they still make music videos. They just 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:28.920 all make them with their phones. Now, okay, good, all right, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.880 Segment two, we're gonna move on to another edition of 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:39.599 the Highlight Reel. This week, I'm going to highlight the wonderful, 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:45.040 the amazing, the lovely, and amazing hint hint, Nicole Holofsiner 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.440 in her first three films. Specifically, Nicole Holofsener is one 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.760 of my filmmaking heroes. She as from New York City 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.559 and began her career as a writer and director in 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.120 with the independent film Walking and Talking with a very 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:05.080 young Katherine Keener and Leev Schreiber and Hesh todd Field 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.480 and Kevin Corrigan. And it was in that I know, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.319 I talked about it all the time, but that wonderful 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:16.200 mid nineties period where independent film um was burgeoning and 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.120 really kind of put itself on the map. And there 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.720 were so many great, great movies made then, and Walking 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.080 and Talking is certainly one of them. The story of 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:28.120 these two best friends, Katherine Keener and Hesh or Hess. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.960 I think it's I haven't seen her in a while. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.319 She's good or she can be, Yeah, it does. It 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.000 seems like she kind of disappeared. Yeah, let's let's go 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.360 find a Haitian put her on the show. I'm sure 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:41.719 that I'll do it. That'll put her right back on 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.520 the star map. Wasn't she married to Ellen for a 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.439 while or weren't they like an item? Yeah? Absolute? Um, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.240 So they played good friends and Liev Schreiber is the 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.560 is the friend of Katherine Keener and just sort of 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.240 their life in New York as twenty somethings and uh, 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.960 failed love affairs and romances. It's just a really really 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.880 great movie. Uh five years later. It took five years, 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.280 I imagine because Nicole Holofstener is a woman in Hollywood 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.560 in the mid nineties and there just was not and 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.880 still is not enough opportunity for female writers and directors. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.319 So it took her five years after The Great Walking 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.080 and Talking to make Lovely and Amazing, which is a 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.480 wonderful film with again Katherine Keener. As you will see, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.280 she has become a staple in her movies, the Great 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:29.000 Brenda Blevin, uh, Emily Mortimer and uh the first movie 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.960 from a young woman or a young girl at the time, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.880 I guess, Raven Goodwin. And it's the story of a 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.320 mom and two daughters and a granddaughter and their life 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.040 together and it's just again so sweet and so real, 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.480 and which is sort of a pattern you will see 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.280 in Nicole Holofsener's work. She just is able to tap 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.520 into these real human emotions and get these great performances 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.920 out of all her actors, and then finally movie number three, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:59.640 Friends with Money, Jennifer Anniston, And it's when Jennifer Aniston 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.080 left Friends and took the or when Friends ended, and 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.720 she took that turn in her career where she wanted 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.120 to do some um, smaller movies, some more independent films 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.480 and did really good, some really good quality movies during 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.200 that period, and Friends with Money was certainly one of them. 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.720 And it is the story of four sisters, Jennifer Andison, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:25.720 Joan Kuzack, uh the wonderfully amazing, Frances McDormand, and again 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.960 Katherine Keener, one of my favorite actors. And there are 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:33.600 four sisters and it's about again just their interpersonal relationships 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.760 and um, some are married, some are not, some are 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.840 um looking for love like Jennifer Anderson's character and uh money. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.120 It's called Friends with Money because that is a theme 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.480 of the movie. They're sort of an undercurrent of of 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.560 and you don't see this in movies, which is what 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.200 made this surreal is and it's a real thing. It's like, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.200 if some people have more money than others in a 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.840 friend group, it can get weird and and that's the 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:02.880 case here. And it's just sort of a real life 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.360 thing that you never see in movies. And in this case, 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.200 Frances McDorman is has made a lot of money as 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.760 a as a fashion designer, um, whereas Jennifer Anniston is 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.560 and I think Katherine Keyner's character and her husband are 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:18.240 also very well off in Los Angeles, and Jennifer Aniston 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.560 is has not much money and she's cleaning houses to 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.800 get by, and as the sister, you know, they try 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.440 to do everything they can to help her out. But 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.720 it's just a really interesting look at what money means 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.120 when it comes to relationships with one another. But it's 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.360 done in a very real way. It's not like they 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.280 don't you know, she doesn't beat you over the head 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.480 with with finance. That makes sense. I thought Bride'smaids did 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.760 an interesting job of that as well. And their friends, yeah, 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.360 because that's the deal, you know. That's the thing like 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:51.880 if if a group of friends, if someone breaks out 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.240 and has a lot of dough all of a sudden, 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.560 it can make things really weird and uncomfortable. There can 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:00.200 be jealousies involved for sure, And in this movie, uh, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.560 the ones with the money are very generous, but then 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.280 Jennifer Ranson also doesn't want to take them up on 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.120 that generosity, whereas the people with the dough or you're 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.680 kind of like, hey, it doesn't matter to me. But 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.680 to be in that position where money doesn't matter is 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.800 very unique and uncomfortable when your sister or brother or 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.280 friend does not have the money. So it's really interesting. 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.400 Uh it's called friends with Money. And also just a 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.760 quick shout out to the movies that followed are also great. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.200 One called Please Give Again with Katherine Keener and the 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.320 great great Oliver Platt and Amanda Pete. And then she 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.400 did the last movie with James Gandolfini before he passed away, 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.720 called Enough Said with Julia Louis Dreyfuss. She has some 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.160 great TV credits to like six ft Under few episodes, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.680 and I want to say she did some parks in 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:52.600 Wreck and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Enlightened, which I think 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.560 is a little bit of an underappreciated show with um 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.120 oh dude, Laura Dern that was one of my favorite 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.160 favorite shows. In fact, you know I'm gonna save that 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.680 one for the highlight reel. The Lightened was so great 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.400 a uh and also um, she directed nicolehol Offsener directed 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.399 the pilot for one Mississippi, the great, great show that 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:16.040 I'm about to talk about right now on stream this 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:18.960 all right, as we finish up with stream this and 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.640 comment card UH as I mentioned one Mississippi season two 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.080 is what I'm gonna highlight this week. The wonderful Tignataro, 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.400 who was UH an episode two of Movie Crush, And 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.639 if you haven't listened to that one, the numbers are 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.200 a little lower for that one because it was very 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.919 early on UM. But if you haven't, go back and 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.000 listen to the Tignataro episode, because the setup for that 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.760 very quickly is. She came in here and right before 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.880 we recorded UH and hit record, she got the call 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.439 that she was cancer free, the call that she had 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.080 been waiting on from her doctor. And as any fan 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.560 of tig Nos, she's um been through the ringer with 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.440 her health and her life and she has a bear 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.920 all up on stage quite literally actually, and UM it's 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:06.760 been very up front about her battle with cancer and 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.199 her struggle. So I come into record, she's literally crying 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.120 in the studio and no one knows what's going on. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.480 And as it turns out, that was the there were 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.200 tears of joy because she had gotten the cancer free 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:22.600 call and we launched right into recording about the movie Mask. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.199 So it's a show I'm super proud of. So if 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.400 you haven't listened to that, go back. But a tig show. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.520 One Mississippi is just great. Um. It's a story of 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.520 her going back to her hometown in Mississippi after her 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:39.920 mother has passed again. Autobiographical and um. Season two really 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.800 makes great strides with her relationship with a local woman 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.760 there working at the radio station who is her real 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:51.320 life wife, Stephanie, And they are just obviously chemistry um 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.080 off screen, so they have it on screen as well. 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:58.040 And Stephanie's just adorably wonderful on that show. And I 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.640 just saw her in a super Bowl commercial too, which 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:02.560 is kind of funny. I was like, wait, there's Stephanie. 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.800 Good for her making some big dough uh. And she 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.080 you know, continues to von with her brother character on 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.240 the show and come to terms with her mother's widowed husband, 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:15.600 which is a problematic and strange relationship. So One Mississippi 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.720 Season two just continued to build on the great foundation 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.640 they late in season one. And if you haven't seen 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.800 it on Amazon, you can stream it now. And very sadly, 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.520 I just found out that it was not renewed. So 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.360 that's all we're gonna get of one Mississippi man, which 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.399 really bumps me out. I think it's the Louis backlash. No, 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.000 I don't think so. I think, um, you know, I 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.879 think it just didn't get renewed. Smallish audience from what 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:44.560 Tig said, very loyal audience, though she has very loyal fans, 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.320 myself included. And here's kind of a cool thing, dude, 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.800 I was. I saw her post on Facebook that she 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.240 there's a club in l A called Largo. Do you 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.040 know Largo? Of course, and Josh and I performed at Largo. 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.479 It's right there in Hollywood and it's known for just 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.879 some of the best comedy shows and they curate just 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.239 some of the best shows in town and Largo. She 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.640 had a picture of her sitting on the couch there backstage, 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.960 and she said, when my mother passed away, I had 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:15.919 all of her furniture and stuff, and I didn't know 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:17.520 what to do with this couch. I had no room 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.240 for it. So I called I can't remember the owner 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.760 and proprietor of Largo, but she said I called him 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.000 up and he said, hey, you can keep it here. 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.400 So she had her picture taken on that couch, which 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:33.119 was her dearly departed mother's couch, and I saw that 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:34.760 and I was like, man, I have sat on that 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.480 couch and had no idea that it was tiggs mom's couch. 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:40.919 So it was just very cool. Uh. If you love 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.320 tig and you you then you definitely love her story 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.560 of her and her mother's relationship. So it was just 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:48.359 kind of kind of neat for me to be like, 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.119 wait a minute, you've been on tiggs mom's couch. Largo 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.439 was the spot where she recorded all those specials. I 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.960 think early on that became the big the stuff that 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:58.520 she was known for on This American Life and all 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:02.199 that story. Yeah, Largo, I've never been. I really like to. 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:04.240 It's cool. Well you got a l a lot now, 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:06.960 so yeah, John Bryan, you know John Bryan, the film composer. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.679 He does like a monthly gime there. I've always heard that. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.280 It's amazing. I'd really like to go see him do that. Yeah. 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.960 He um did a lot of Pete Anderson music and 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.439 produced the Good Fion Apple Records, and he's in that crowd. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.040 The Largo crowd is what I call it. And this 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:23.879 is the the well, it's not new now, but this 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.159 is the second location for Largo. When I lived in 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.320 l A. It was a even smaller venue in Hollywood, 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:33.600 uh where I saw Rufus Waynewright play very early on. 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.360 It was almost like a piano bar. It was very cool. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:37.480 It was one of the first dates I went on 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:39.880 with Emily. They call it Largo at the Coronet Now, 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.600 I think is that the differentiation there? Yeah, because it's 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.959 the old Cornet Theater, one of the old great Hollywood theaters. 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:50.520 So uh yeah. One Mississippi season two streaming on Amazon. 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.639 Support tig Nataro and all her efforts because she is 0:21:53.760 --> 0:22:02.920 the best. And finally we'll finish up with comic card 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:04.879 who got a couple of emails here and I call 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:09.200