Eli Roth, Will Packer, and Demi Moore on The Treat
The Treatment
KCRW
4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with actor and director Eli Roth who has curated a new album of songs from mostly forgotten Italian films of the 1970s and '80s. The double album is called Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco. Then producer Will Packer stops by to reveal how he attained success in Hollywood in his new book Who Better Than You? The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big. And on The Treat, Oscar nominated actress Demi Moore pays homage to someone who taught her about embracing getting older.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
| 0:14.3 | It's the Treatment. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. |
| 0:16.4 | You can also hear the show at KCRW.com. |
| 0:18.8 | As we're approaching the 30th anniversary of this show, |
| 0:21.3 | there's no better way to bring that in |
| 0:22.9 | than to bring in an old friend who stayed away from the show |
| 0:25.7 | for way too long, |
| 0:27.4 | but I guess he's been too busy, |
| 0:29.1 | racking up hits such as Thanksgiving. |
| 0:31.3 | And now, in addition to being writer, director, |
| 0:34.1 | and award-winning actor, |
| 0:35.6 | I've called him now an ethnomusicmusicologist and music curator. His newest |
| 0:40.3 | project is Red Light Disco. I'm talking to our old friend Eli Ruffis. Well, thanks to what you're |
| 0:46.0 | doing the show. My pleasure. Good to be back. I haven't stayed away. I just, you know, I wasn't |
| 0:50.4 | pushing for an invite. I figured, you know, when you wanted me back, you'd have it. Well, here's an invite. Talk about this collection of music, which, as we were talking about |
| 0:59.5 | before we got going, you know, I thought about the talks we had about music when we were |
| 1:04.0 | at the Venice Film Festival, kind of like 15 years ago now. And hearing these songs throws me |
| 1:09.8 | right back into that period. |
| 1:11.7 | And those movies we saw at that festival, in some ways, I'm guessing your whole life has been a catalyst for putting this thing together, hasn't it? |
| 1:18.4 | Yeah, weirdly, you know, if you think back to that time, that sort of period for me, from Cabin Fever and Hostel of 2003 to 2005 and 2006 with Hostel 2, |
| 1:29.9 | was the first time I really got to travel around the world and buy DVDs. |
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