On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild sit down for lunch with Justine Bateman. As they say on the site – “Here's a striking new episode with actress, writer, author, director, and producer Justine Bateman who Phil became friends with on the last WGA strike -- they both also appear in the 2006 film, The TV Set. Justine, Phil and David enjoy a freewheeling conversation covering everything from Artificial Intelligence to Family Ties, from Justin's compelling books Fame and Face to her acclaimed feature film directorial debut Violet in 2021 to going back to earning a degree in computer science and digital media management from UCLA in 2016. Justine is full of insights into Hollywood's current labor issues to making the movie Satisfaction with Julia Roberts.
While I don't agree with all her conclusions on where media and technology will go, I do agree with most. And the few I don't fully agree with, she comes at them with so much expertise and thoughtful insight that they're well-worth consideration. (As a sort of addendum, like Phil Rosenthal, I too sort of crossed paths with her on the last WGA strike. We never met face-to-face, but did exchange a bunch of “mutual admiration society” emails between one another, over articles we each wrote about the strike. I’d been very impressed by a couple she wrote – even though she wasn’t a member of the WGA at the time, but she said she hoped to be one day – and it turned out she regularly read a long series of articles I was writing on the strike for the Huffington Post. Unlike Phil, though, we haven’t been in touch since.)
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