Will Every Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Eventually Have a TV Show?
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Cameron Crowe has had a rough go of it since winning the best original screenplay Oscar for Almost Famous, but Showtime’s Roadies could serve as something of a comeback— maybe. ON this week’s episode Joanna Robinson joins us to talk about her visit to the set of Roadies, and we also take advantage of her Game of Thrones expertise to look back at what the season has brought us, and explain a few things about what the heck the White Walkers are up to, anyway.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast from Vanity Fair and |
| 0:08.0 | panoply that proves that awards season really is a year-round event. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of vanity fair |
| 0:13.8 | dot com and I'm here with vanity fair's film critic Richard Lawson. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello and joining us this week as Mike is away vanity fair senior staff writer |
| 0:20.7 | Joanna Robinson. Hello! So this week we've drafted Joanna Robinson. Hello. |
| 0:23.1 | So this week we've drafted Joanna |
| 0:24.8 | to talk about two subjects very close to her heart. |
| 0:27.5 | I actually can't imagine two better topics |
| 0:29.2 | to have Joanna to chime in on. |
| 0:31.6 | We're going to start with Roadies, which is Cameron Crow's new Showtime series. |
| 0:35.8 | He won an Oscar for the screenplay for Almost Famous, and he's basically been fighting an uphill battle |
| 0:40.4 | ever since with his movies that were either perplexing like for an |
| 0:43.7 | less guy or totally hated like aloha and it seems like television might be his |
| 0:48.5 | chance for a comeback when we're going to talk about whether or not that's |
| 0:51.0 | actually going to happen. |
| 0:52.7 | And then from there we'll check in one last time on the ongoing season of Game of Thrones, |
| 0:56.7 | which will air its finale on Sunday and just aired its most ambitious episode of the season, |
| 1:02.0 | maybe ever with Battle of the Bastards. this Sunday talking about the dramatic stakes of this season and we'll talk about |
| 1:13.4 | whether or not it's actually as daring as it used to be. But first the week in |
| 1:17.4 | Oscar news which as it sometimes is is also the week in blockbuster news. Finding |
| 1:21.3 | Dory made a ton of money, you guys. |
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