Bobcat Goldthwait on 'Call Me Lucky'

The Business

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4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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For years, Bobcat Goldthwait wanted to make a movie about his mentor, Barry Crimmins. A stand-up comic with a taste for sharp political satire, Crimmins became an activist who testified before Congress, taking on AOL over the proliferation of child pornography on the Internet. Goldthwait tells how the film came together with help from his best friend Robin Williams.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center.
0:03.0	Every week, join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and Me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories, from ISIS to the U.S. economy to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having.
0:13.7	You can find Left, Right, and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.
0:18.2	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:24.9	I sat there and I thought, well, what would he want?
0:30.2	I knew he would have wanted me to finish the movie.
0:34.0	Bobcat Goldthwaite became famous for his screaming stand-up comedy, but these days he's primarily
0:39.8	a director. His documentary, Call Me Lucky, on the Life and Trouble times of one of his mentors,
0:45.5	comedian and activist Barry Crimmons, was partly funded by Goldthwaite's good friend Robin Williams.
0:51.5	But on the last day of filming, Goldthwaite learned that Williams had died.
0:55.8	He tells us about that special friendship and how his career has evolved from his days in
1:00.8	Police Academy. But first on the news banter, a great summer at the box office, but only for two
1:06.9	studios. Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.
1:15.9	Music two studios. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my banter buddy, Michael Schneider, of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Michael.
1:20.5	Hi, Kim. So, summer box office, we can take a look back now, and we can say it was like
1:25.9	the tale of two summers. If you were Universal or Disney, especially Universal, I think you and Joe Adelian talked about this last week when I was away, record-breaking year for Universal.
1:35.4	If you were Disney or Universal, yay, if you're in the rest.
1:39.5	Not so, yay.
1:40.3	Not so much.
1:41.3	Yeah, Universal has now passed the $2.1 billion mark domestically, which is a new record, thanks to movies like Jurassic World, which was just a phenomenon.
1:50.4	And, of course, most recently, straight out of Compton, continuing to do well at the B.O.
1:53.9	Yeah, they just have minions.
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