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The Treatment

Christopher Guest

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2006

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Envy. Pettiness. Betrayal.  They're all elements of –comedy?  Yes, if you're talking about the work of writer-director-actor Christopher Guest.  He follows Best in Show and Mighty Wind with For Your Consideration, inside dealist showbiz. It's all for your consideration.

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

0:13.8

Welcome to the treatment.

0:15.8

For the last 30 years, we can say,

0:17.8

Christopher Guess, has taken comedy fromhtick to behavior, from his days

0:21.9

to the National Lampoon to, of course, his involvement in this, Spinal Tap, his films as

0:25.8

a writer-director, the Big Picture, which is first visiting to the world of Hollywood, to his

0:30.4

current film, for your consideration, which is another look at it, the actor, writer, director,

0:35.3

and comedy historian, Christopher Guesses with us, Chris, for a guest is with us.

0:38.9

Chris, thanks for coming back.

0:40.0

Thanks.

0:40.8

If you could tell us a little bit of what the movie's about.

0:44.1

For your consideration is about an independent movie that's being made in Hollywood.

0:51.8

And one of the members of the cast hears that there's some Oscar buzz on the internet.

0:59.3

That information is brought to her attention by a member of the crew.

1:03.1

And it really tracks what happens to the actors in this production as this develops.

1:10.1

I guess that's the easiest way of describing it.

1:12.6

That seems to work.

1:13.6

It's you and Eugene Levy writing together again.

1:15.9

Right.

1:16.6

And you're directing and let the audience know who's in this one.

1:20.0

Well, it's the same cast as we've had in the last three films.

1:26.1

Fred Willard, Michael McKean and Bob Balaban and Jane Lynch

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