Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Wade Major of boxoffice.com and Lael Loewenstein of Variety discuss the films opening this week including A Nightmare on Elm Street, Furry Vengeance, Please Give, Harry Brown, The Good Heart, The Good, The Bad, And The Weird, Dirty Hands, and Timer. TGI-FilmWeek! Later, he’s worked with Elvis and Sinatra and been counselor and confidante to celebrities and politicians. Now, the veteran Hollywood film producer and deal maker Jerry Weintraub has a new memoir, co-written with Vanity Fair Editor Rich Cohen. Part how-to guide, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man, is packed with entertaining stories Weintraub’s probably been telling at cocktail parties for years. The book chronicles his rise from the Bronx, to the hills of Hollywood, and his crowning hits as movie producer, from Robert Altman’s Nashville, to Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen. Larry talks with Weintraub about his remarkable life and career, marked by luck, love and improvisation. Live tweeting this week's reviews:
Guests:
Wade Major, BoxOffice.com Lael Loewenstein, Variety Jerry Weintraub, co-author of When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man (Twelve); he is also a veteran Hollywood film producer and former Chairman and CEO of United Artists.