Director Stephen Frears; Lennon-McCartney of Mock Movie Music
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Celebrated director Stephen Frears (The Grifters, High Fidelity, The Queen) talks about his new movie Tamara Drewe and his comfort level working in the independent film world. After two failed attempts at Hollywood studio movies, the indie director says he retreated to a more sensible place, away from the large budgets that had a paralyzing effect on him. Then we meet Dan Bern and Mike Viola, the Lennon-McCartney of mock rock movie songs, including those sung by the fictitious rock stars in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Get Him to The Greek.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.7 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
| 0:12.3 | Everybody thinks your business, business, really, really, all right life. |
| 0:18.1 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.8 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:23.7 | This week on the business, celebrated independent film director Stephen Frears tells why the Hollywood studios aren't for him. |
| 0:31.4 | Then the Lennon McCartney of fake hit songs for music movies. |
| 0:35.4 | But first, the Hollywood news banter. |
| 0:39.8 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:48.0 | I can imagine Hollywood. Everything is really driven. I'm joined by my fellow banterer, John Horn, |
| 1:00.9 | in the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John. Hello, Kim. So, John, the TV season is sort of taking shape, and I wouldn't say it's going to be the one that they all want to keep in their photo album this year. |
| 1:02.2 | It's been a little rough. |
| 1:06.9 | Pretty much every network has had something that didn't quite work so far, huh? |
| 1:13.2 | Well, it sounds as if so far that even though ratings aren't necessarily that bad, the new show ratings are quite bad. |
| 1:15.0 | And the older show ratings are definitely tripping up. |
| 1:18.7 | Yeah, they're slipping. |
| 1:19.6 | Fox's Lone Star was pulled after two episodes. |
| 1:24.2 | ABC yanked My Generation. |
| 1:27.1 | And then it looks like NBC's outlaw is definitely on the ropes. |
| 1:31.5 | They've halted production but haven't quite pulled it off the schedule. |
| 1:34.2 | Yeah, it sort of doesn't look so good for outlaw. |
| 1:37.4 | And I think what's also interesting is that none of the new shows, |
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