Barry Avrich: 'David Foster: Off the Record'

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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What do Earth, Wind & Fire and Michael Bublé have in common? Mega music producer David Foster. Before he became famous for his presence on reality TV, Foster brought his soaring sensibilities and steely concentration to artists like Barbara Streisand, Whitney Houston, and Chicago. Documentary filmmaker Barry Avrich turned a camera on Foster for the Netflix film, “David Foster: Off the Record,” and tracked the difference between control in the studio and the chaos outside of it. Avirch discusses what draws him to such subjects when he stops by “The Treatment.”

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:13.8	Welcome to the home edition of the treatment, once again from my house, I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:18.4	My guest from probably home somewhere north of the border, our border, is director of Barry Average, whose new film on Pop Phenom.
0:26.7	And Pop Phenom, David Foster, is a documentary David Foster of the record.
0:30.9	First of all, Barry, good to have you back.
0:32.3	Thanks for doing this.
0:33.6	Elvis, no better place than I'd rather be right now than with you.
0:37.4	I almost believe you.
0:38.4	That's how good filmmaker and documentary maker you are.
0:40.7	But let me ask you this.
0:43.2	What's so interesting about this to me is the revelation at the end of the movie,
0:47.5	we find out that David Foster is terrified of elevators.
0:52.3	Yeah.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:53.5	I mean, I didn't know that until we were shooting in New York, which, of course, unless
1:01.6	you have an elevator, you're not getting anywhere.
1:03.7	And we got to one of those skyscrapers to meet a Broadway composer that he was working
1:10.7	with.
1:11.0	And we got to the building and it was on the 38th floor.
1:14.9	And after he finished yelling at, at everybody about that, he, he did the climbing and got
1:21.9	there to realize that the, the office had moved.
1:26.2	So we had to, we had to go to another building.
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