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The Oscars on Off-Ramp, 2016
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Dan Carino
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Episode 12666
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The Oscars on Off-Ramp, 2016

From the corner booth at the historic Musso and Frank Grill in Hollywood, we talk the biggest night in Hollywood with critics, writers and more!

John Rabe in the corner booth at Musso and Frank Grill in Hollywood
John Rabe in the corner booth at Musso and Frank Grill in Hollywood
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Kevin Ferguson/KPCC
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From the corner booth at the historic Musso and Frank Grill in Hollywood, we talk the biggest night in Hollywood with critics, writers and more!

Listen 6:33
MTV's chief film critic argues that Spike Lee's latest was the best film of the year, though you won't see it at the Academy Awards this year.
Listen 3:17
KPCC's Patt Morrison waxes poetic and historic on Musso & Frank Grill, a Hollywood hangout for legends like Dalton Trumbo, William Faulkner and others.
Listen 9:48
Writer John McNamara talks the Hollywood blacklist, the Oscars and more. "The nice thing about Musso and Frank is the waiters who are rude to you were rude to F. Scott Fitzgerald."
Co-writers Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff talk about putting recent history on the big screen, #OscarsSoWhite and how to write about police brutality.