Michael Keaton, Jason Schwartzman and Emily Nussbaum on The Treat

The Treatment

KCRW

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes Emmy-winner Michael Keaton. The actor is currently starring in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — reprising his titular role as the profane and hilarious demon from Tim Burton’s 1988 film Beetlejuice (singular). Then, actor Jason Schwartzman talks about his latest role as a grieving cantor in Between The Temples. And for The Treat, Pulitzer Prize winning writer Emily Nussbaum extols the virtues of a “corny” and “beautiful” album from her childhood.

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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.
0:15.6	My guest hasn't been here for a while, and it's fighting the idea of having a career resurgence is Michael Keaton. He's starring
0:22.5	in Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice now in theaters. And first of all, it's always great to talk to you.
0:28.0	And I had this thing that hit me, just watching something, get it ready for this and knowing
0:32.8	you as I do. You've done so many movies, often comedies, about characters in existential crisis.
0:39.1	We'd go back to Mr. Mom for that, which sort of created a template for this.
0:43.2	Beetlejuice is kind of that character, too.
0:45.6	I would even say Ray Kroc is that guy.
0:47.6	I think of Bobby Barbarado is that guy from Touch and Go.
0:51.3	These guys who want to be somewhere else so bad, they often want to be
0:55.6	somebody else.
0:57.0	Even Birdman, really.
0:58.4	Oh, no, completely.
0:59.2	Yes, yes.
1:00.1	So here's why I wanted to start this.
1:01.6	And I want to answer that.
1:02.7	I wanted to do this for a while because you, and for those folks listening out there, this
1:08.9	guy really was pivotal,
1:12.9	might not be the right word,
1:14.1	but influential in a lot of the stuff that happened.
1:16.7	I'll tell you exactly why.
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