Aline Brosh McKenna joins John and Craig to discuss the progress made in the year following the Weinstein revelations. Have the systems for reporting and preventing sexual harassment improved, or are we still just dealing with hurricanes?
We also follow up on The Academy’s decision to nix the Popular Film category, the IATSE agreement, missing movies, and Craig’s distaste for ventriloquism. And Final Draft teaches us that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
The Academy decided against adding the Popular Film Category this year.Site supporting the IATSE Basic AgreementA listener let us know when he saw a familiar looking typewriter, but Final Draft apologized.Matt followed up with insight on how murky rights keep movies in limbo.Even Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop, 12-year old Darcy Lynne on America’s Got Talent and Avenue Q can’t change Craig’s mind about ventriloquism. An iPad standAwards Are Stupid, Jerry Seinfeld’s acceptance speech for his HBO Comedian AwardThe USB drives!Aline Brosh McKenna on TwitterJohn August on TwitterCraig Mazin on TwitterJohn on InstagramFind past episodesScriptnotes Digital Seasons are also now available!Outro by Luke Davis (send us yours!).Email us at [email protected]
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UPDATE 9-19-18: The transcript of this episode can be found here.
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