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Awards Chatter

Kenneth Turan - 'Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The former Los Angeles Times film critic reflects on his path from Brooklyn to Hollywood, the current state of film criticism and the LA Times, and what inspired him to spend four years writing the first dual-biography in 50 years of MGM's two most legendary executives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.0

Down time can be just fine, plain bangers from them 90s.

0:08.0

Tea break.

0:09.0

Lunt break.

0:10.0

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.0

Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

0:15.0

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down

0:23.9

tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org

0:29.4

Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 581st episode of the Hollywood Reporter's

0:42.4

Awards Chatter podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a revered writer

0:47.7

on film. He worked for nearly 30 years from 1991 through 2020 at the Los Angeles Times, a period during which he was the most

0:56.3

widely read film critic in the town most associated with the movies. He was also an on-air film

1:01.9

critic for NPR's Morning Edition and a lecturer in USC's Master of Professional Writing Program.

1:08.5

He was recognized with the Press Award at the ICG Publicist Awards in

1:12.0

2000, a special citation from the National Society of Film Critics in 2006, and the Luminary Award

1:18.6

for Career Achievement from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2013. And he is the author of 10 books,

1:25.9

seven of which relate to film, the most recent being a terrific dual biography,

1:31.0

Louis B. Mayor and Irving Thalberg The Whole Equation, which was published by Yale University Press as part of its Jewish Live series back on February 4th.

1:40.3

Kenneth Tehran.

1:42.4

Over the course of a conversation at the LA offices of the Hollywood Reporter,

1:45.7

the 78-year-old and I discussed his path from Brooklyn to Hollywood

1:49.3

and to film criticism specifically.

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