Nigerian American Hollywood writer and director, his films include Brown Sugar, The Wood and Dope
Rick Famuyiwa on KCRW
More from KCRW
What’s behind the ‘In the Heights’ box office miss?
EntertainmentWarner Bros. was hoping for a big summer hit with its movie adaptation of the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical “In the Heights.”
Michael B. Jordan: ‘Without Remorse’
ArtsActor and producer, Michael B. Jordan on the video game “Rainbow Six” as inspiration for his newest role
A climate of guilt and suspicion
EntertainmentYou could say "The Dry," a fine Australian thriller, is partly about global warming.
‘Girls5eva’ creator Meredith Scardino on Peacock’s new musical comedy series
EntertainmentWhen Meredith Scardino pitched her musical comedy series “Girls5eva,” about an all-but-forgotten late 1990s girl group that reunites in their forties, she made a fake CD case, complete…
NBC drops the Globes, Disney subscriber numbers disappoint, and Ellen says so long
EntertainmentIt’s a mid-May mega banter!
Discovery will merge with WarnerMedia, but not right away. That delay makes things difficult
EntertainmentNews broke in May that AT&T would be spinning off WarnerMedia to Discovery and that David Zaslav would run the combined media empire, but that deal isn’t closing any time soon.
Edward St. Aubyn: 'Double Blind'
BooksEdward St. Aubyn discusses his new book, “Double Blind,” and writing about the problems with consciousness that have long fascinated his consciousness.
Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman: “Street Cop”
BooksNot a comicbook, but literally illustrated text, “Street Cop,” written by Robert Coover and inhabited by Art Spiegelman.
Instability at WarnerMedia, revisiting ‘Disclosure’ with Laverne Cox and Sam Feder
EntertainmentKim Masters and Matt Belloni offer a fresh banter about the current awkwardness at WarnerMedia.