Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 192 of Awards Chatter, The Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a producer whose name you may or may not

know but whose work you surely do.

She is and for the last 22 years has been,

the co-custodian with her step-brother and Eon Productions partner Michael G. Wilson

of one of the most iconic and beloved properties of all time, the James Bond franchise.

Together, she and Wilson have overseen its last eight installments.

1995's Golden Eye, 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies, 1999's The World Is Not Enough, 2002's Die Another Day,

2006 is Casino Royale, 2008's Quantum of Salas, 2012 Skyfall, and 2015 Specter, with her increasingly taking the lead.

As the New York Times put it, quote, yes, a woman is in charge of the world's most aspirational

male brand."

Additionally, she recently produced her first film outside of the world of

007, an adaptation of Peter Turner's 1986 memoir, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, that she's been trying to make for 31 years,

and that she finally got made under the direction of Paul McGuigan and with the actors Annette

Benning and Jamie Bell playing Golden Age star Gloria Graham and

Turner respectively. I'm talking about one of the most successful and powerful women in

Hollywood, Barbara Broccoli. But first I sat down at the offices of the Hollywood

reporter with the forces behind the two best bookstores in or around

Hollywood. Nadine Vassalo, the general manager of Book Soup, and Jeffrey

Mantor, the owner of Larry Edmonds Book Shop, to talk about the best Hollywood related books of 2017.

Nadine and Jeff, thank you so much for joining us and for running such great establishments that have taken a lot of hours of my life in the best sense.

So to begin with, do you two know each other?

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