The Treatment
KCRW
The Treatment is a compelling listen to the vital conversations about the catalysts of creative inspiration. Following some of the most interesting, influential, and crossover creators in the world of entertainment, fashion, sports, and the arts, we hear from tastemakers who are the very fabric that forms popular culture.
Episodes
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Dec 4, 2013 • 30min
Lenny Kravitz: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Lenny Kravitz talks about acting the same way he talks about music, quoting Miles Davis, who said, "It's all about the notes you don't play."
Nov 27, 2013 • 31min
Malcolm D. Lee: The Best Man Holiday
Writer/director Malcolm D. Lee on why it took him 14 years to make a sequel to "The Best Man." Plus, what is a 'black' movie, anyway?
Nov 25, 2013 • 38min
Will Slocombe: Cold Turkey
Writer/director Will Slocombe talks about making his first feature on a shoestring budget in twelve days... starring Peter Bogdanovich.
Nov 20, 2013 • 30min
James Wolcott: Critical Mass
From the Village Voice, to Vanity Fair, to the New Yorker, and back to Vanity Fair, writer James Wolcott talks about his long career as an observer.
Nov 13, 2013 • 30min
Steve McQueen: 12 Years a Slave
Director Steve McQueen makes films about things that people don't really talk about, but to him, they are deafening. He says, "If you're an artist, you have to have balls."
Nov 7, 2013 • 31min
Dan and Stacy Chariton: The English Teacher
Husband and wife writing duo Dan and Stacy Chariton talk Art with a capital "A" and Romance with a capital "R" in their first film as screenwriters, "The English Teacher."
Nov 6, 2013 • 30min
Kurt Sutter: Sons of Anarchy
Hamlet, Strindberg, Israel Horovitz, Oedipus... and motorcycle gangs. Kurt Sutter, creator of 'Sons of Anarchy,' on his biggest influences.
Oct 30, 2013 • 30min
Alec Baldwin and James Toback: Seduced and Abandoned
They picked the title first, and the rest followed: Alec Baldwin and James Toback on their new doc hybrid for HBO, "Seduced and Abandoned."
Oct 23, 2013 • 30min
Jenji Kohan: Orange is the New Black
'The most contemporary thing on television,' according to Matthew Weiner, isn't actually on television. Creator Jenji Kohan talks Orange is the New Black.
Oct 16, 2013 • 30min
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele: Key & Peele
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele talk about the intersection of code-switching and comedy, and how the internet is changing their definition of success.
