BROADCAST NEWS: POST-FILM Q&A w/ AUTHOR LANA SCHWARTZ

Name: BROADCAST NEWS: POST-FILM Q&A w/ AUTHOR LANA SCHWARTZ
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2026-08-28
Duration: 2 h 13 min
Cast: Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks

<div>Join Lana Schwartz, author of <i><a href="https://www.lanalikebanana.com/set-piece">Set Piece</a></i>, for a screening of James L. Brooks’s 1987 classic Broadcast News. Lana will intro the movie and there will be a Q&A and book signing following the screening. Lana’s book will be available for sale from Orca Books. It all happens on August 28 at 7pm. </div><div><br></div><div><b>About Broadcast News:</b></div><div>Brooks's caustic look inside the Washington news media stars Holly Hunter, in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman (William Hurt) and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter (Albert Brooks). Brooks’s witty, gently prophetic film is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on relationships and the media were rapidly changing.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About Lana Schwartz:</b><br><div>Her first book, <i>Build Your Own Romantic Comedy: Pick Your Plot, Meet Your Man, and Direct Your Happily Ever After</i> was released by Ulysses Press on March 17, 2020. It was named one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Books of the Year and called “a “brilliantly fun book you’ll want to explore again and again” by Entertainment Weekly. Her romance novella<i> Set Piece</i> was published by 831 Stories in May 2025. It received praise from Bustle, TheSkimm, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, and more, and was referred to as a “brisk and delightful contemporary” by Publisher’s Weekly.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>SCREENING: FRI 8/28 7PM (post-film discussion with Lana Schwartz, author of Set Piece); SAT 8/29 4PM; WED 9/2 4PM</div><div><br></div><div>Tickets are now available online and at the box office beginning 30 minutes before showtime.</div><div><br></div><div>This show has ADA area seating or specifically held seats available. Please call the box office at (360) 754-6670 x16 or email boxoffice@olympiafilmsociety.org if you have any questions. The wheelchair positions should not be selected by patrons who are not using wheelchairs or in need of ADA seating.</div></div>ComedyPT2H13MR2026-08-28USen

Holly Hunter

William Hurt

Albert Brooks

James L. Brooks / 1987 / US

James L. Brooks

BROADCAST NEWS: POST-FILM Q&A w/ AUTHOR LANA SCHWARTZ"BROADCAST NEWS: POST-FILM Q&A w/ AUTHOR LANA SCHWARTZ"

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