Someone Else's Movie

Tracy Dawson on Broadcast News

Episode Summary

Actor and author Tracy Dawson (Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed To Do) is here to celebrate James L. Brooks' eerily prophetic 1987 dramedy Broadcast News. Your genial host Norm Wilner is worried he buried the lede.

Episode Notes

Award-winning actor turned author Tracy Dawson -- whose first book Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed To Do was published in May by Harper Collins -- is here to celebrate James L. Brooks' eerily prophetic Broadcast News, the 1987 dramedy starring Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and William Hurt that showed us exactly where America media, and the world, was heading. Your genial host Norm Wilner is worried he buried the lede.