One Perfect Story: Stephen Rodrick on Writing About Lindsay Lohan

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🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Bryan is joined by journalist Stephen Rodrick on the 10th anniversary of his New York Times story "Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie." They dive into Rodrick’s career writing celebrity profiles and working with creatives, discuss the rare full access he had on the set of the film 'The Canyons,' touch on the writing process alongside director and screenwriter Paul Schrader and actress Lindsay Lohan, and more. Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Stephen Rodrick Associate Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Learn more about the Alms You Love with Disect.
0:02.9	A music analysis podcast hosted by me, Cole Kushner, a lifelong musician and composer.
0:08.1	Each season of Disect dives deep into a single album, forensically dissecting the music, lyrics,
0:13.0	and meaning of one song per episode.
0:15.2	Our newest season is covering Tyler the Creator's Igor, a beautifully honest album in which
0:19.5	Tyler explores love, communication, masculinity, and truth.
0:23.8	Listen to Disect today only on Spotify, because great art deserves more than a swipe.
0:33.2	Happy Holidays, media consumers, Brian Curtis of The Ring are here, along with producer
0:38.1	Erica Cervantes.
0:39.9	Thought it used this week to try something a little different at the old press box.
0:44.8	It's a new feature called One Perfect Story, sort of like the movie Twitter account One
0:50.6	Perfect Shot.
0:52.1	Here's my pitch for episode one.
0:54.7	Ten years ago next month, all of us reporter types who were typing away at our stories suddenly
1:00.6	stopped.
1:01.9	Because this amazing and envy-producing piece of magazine journalism had just been published
1:08.2	on the website of The New York Times magazine.
1:11.1	The author was Stephen Roderick.
1:13.5	The story was about Lindsey Lohan, then at a pretty turbulent point in her career, making
1:20.2	a movie called The Canians with the director Paul Schrader, who wrote Raging Bull and Taxi
1:26.2	Driver.
1:27.4	And what was so envy-producing about this story was that Roderick hadn't just been on
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