Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f. applauding t. C. Boyle, welcome. My pleasure. Congratulations on the book. Thank you so much. I publish books all the time, every year, and i go out on the road and every once in a while somebody says, congratulations, and im wondering, for what . Its like going to war when you publish a book. No, its like giving birth, here it is. It was long awaited. No, no, the thing about this book that i thought was especially great was it took me back, truly took me back to the mid and early 90s, you know. This is a novel based on real events. Its based on the experience of biosphere, biosphere 2 in arizona in the early 90s. You have really drawn a picture that is similar to, but, in so many ways, different from the real thing. Well, thank you. When the biosphere 2 experiment first happened in 91 through 93 northeast of tucson, i was fascinated by this. Like most of the public, i clipped out all the articles. I thought, this is right up m
Lets start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f. applauding t. C. Boyle, welcome. My pleasure. Congratulations on the book. Thank you so much. I publish books all the time, every year, and i go out on the road and every once in a while somebody says, congratulations, and im wondering, for what . Its like going to war when you publish a book. No, its like giving birth, here it is. It was long awaited. No, no, the thing about this book that i thought was especially great was it took me back, truly took me back to the mid and early 90s, you know. This is a novel based on real events. Its based on the experience of biosphere, biosphere 2 in arizona in the early 90s. You have really drawn a picture that is similar to, but, in so many ways, different from the real thing. Well, thank you. When the biosphere 2 experiment first happened in 91 through 93 northeast of tucson, i was fascinated by this. Like most of the public, i clip
Hollywood is awash with speculation, spin and yes, self importance but this year, with donald trump in the white house and america deeply divided, real life has thrown up a melodrama which makes the movies look tame. My guest today isjohn madden, and oscar winning director whose latest film is set in the murky world of washington politics. But is hollywood doing justice to the times were living in . John madden, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lets start by discussing the process of making your most recent movie. Its called miss sloane. But perhaps the most striking thing about it is that you were working in washington, making a film about the underbelly of washington politics at the very time america was experiencing a political earthquake. How disconcerting was that . Well, you know, it was really like, i suppose if i use a movie metaphor, its two trains kind of colliding. But we had no idea this other train was on the track. Im sure im explaining the obvious here but obviously when
Hollywood is awash with speculation, spin and yes, self importance but this year, with donald trump in the white house and america deeply divided, real life has thrown up a melodrama which makes the movies look tame. My guest today isjohn madden, and oscar winning director whose latest film is set in the murky world of washington politics. But is hollywood doing justice to the times were living in . John madden, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lets start by discussing the process of making your most recent movie. Its called miss sloane. But perhaps the most striking thing about it is that you were working in washington, making a film about the underbelly of washington politics at the very time america was experiencing a political earthquake. How disconcerting was that . Well, you know, it was really like, i suppose if i use a movie metaphor, its two trains kind of colliding. But we had no idea this other train was on the track. Im sure im explaining the obvious here but obviously when
Hollywood is awash with speculation, spin and yes, self importance but this year, with donald trump in the white house and america deeply divided, real life has thrown up a melodrama which makes the movies look tame. My guest today isjohn madden, and oscar winning director whose latest film is set in the murky world of washington politics. But is hollywood doing justice to the times were living in . John madden, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lets start by discussing the process of making your most recent movie. Its called miss sloane. But perhaps the most striking thing about it is that you were working in washington, making a film about the underbelly of washington politics at the very time america was experiencing a political earthquake. How disconcerting was that . Well, you know, it was really like, i suppose if i use a movie metaphor, its two trains kind of colliding. But we had no idea this other train was on the track. Im sure im explaining the obvious here but obviously when