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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Episode 11 - Amy Nicholson

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Sam sits down with Amy Nicholson, the new Chief Film Critic for MTV News, to talk about her experiences growing up in San Antonio, her college life, the nightmare August that set her on the path toward film criticism , her book about Tom Cruise, and helping to build the new MTV. 'Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor': https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Cruise-Anatomy-Amy-Nicholson/dp/0714868019/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465915344&sr=8-1&keywords=tom+cruise+anatomy+of+an+actor Music by Vanilla @vanilla. Original illustration by Krishna Shenoi http://krishnabalashenoi.com/. 


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0:00.0

Pushkin

0:09.0

Hey, this is Sam.

0:10.0

If you enjoy our interviews with writers and artists on Talk Easy, then I'd recommend checking

0:14.8

out the podcast Missing Pages. Hosted by acclaimed literary critic and author Beth Ann Patrick,

0:21.5

Missing Pages investigates the biggest hot button topics in the book world today

0:26.4

with the help of special guests like New York Times Best-Selling author Jody Pekle

0:31.3

and publisher weeklies Jim Miliet.

0:33.8

Produced by the people at the Podglamaret,

0:36.1

Missing Pages explores everything from the insta frame of Colleen Hoover

0:40.3

to the rise of book bands across America to the lucrative culture of non-fiction ghost writing.

0:46.0

As both the Washington Post and the Guardian praise,

0:49.0

missing pages is a must listen.

0:52.0

So if you'd like to check it out, you can follow missing pages on

0:55.0

Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome to Talk Easy, a weekly podcast of intimate interviews with the people shaping our culture.

1:24.0

I'm Sam Fragoso, thank you for tuning in.

1:26.7

This week on the show we have acclaimed author and MTV film critic Amy Nicholson.

1:31.6

Amy has been writing about the movies for more than a decade, most notably as the film critic

1:35.6

for L.A. Weekly, where she wrote for three years.

1:38.8

At the weekly, she was a perfect mix of funny, insightful, and incisive. She could write beautifully about a movie she

1:44.9

loved or scathingly about a film she loath. When Amy is not being one of America's best

1:50.4

film critics, she's an author, her first book, Tom Cruise anatomy of an actor,

1:55.2

delivered exactly what the title promises, a detailed examination of the life and work of

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