SMC Pod #191: Lorne Michaels & The Movie Impressario

The Impressario is an archetype the movie industry sorely needs right now. Lorne Michaels, co-creator and longtime producer of Saturday Night Live offers a template and some surprising subtle lessons in what characteristics are needed to thrive in the long game. Michaels is one of the last of a breed that started at the very beginning with boy genius MGM studio head Irving Thalberg and includes folks like agent Sue Mengers, producer Kathleen Kennedy, manager Bernie Brillstein among others. Folks who can aggregate talent, people, power to make a mind boggling body of work. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill takes a look at the characteristics these folks share in the hopes we can learn something for the next chapter of cinema.