Lyle Lovett

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q543637: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: The Player (1992); Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Walk the Line (2005): 2 lines

unmapped (parody target) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Amanda argues effective parody must work from something that works, and watched the two back to back; the buzz-saw brother incident mirrors Walk Hard's setup.
“for something, to be an effective parody, it has to be working from something that actually works.”
The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:04:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
unmapped (parody of) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard is a beat-for-beat demolition of Walk the Line (and Ray), pairing contempt with affection.
“it is such a perfect note for note, beat for beat, cliche for cliche, demolition of this kind of movie, with just the right amount of contempt and affection”
The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:28:10 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Alfred Hitchcock: 1 line

craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley notes the Hitchcock-like touches in the rattlesnake and police station scenes.
“Little Hitchcock homage, I feel like.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Nashville (1975): 1 line

craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Nashville ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley says the tricks Altman uses in The Player, like famous people dropping into a space, are ones he used in Nashville.
“a lot of the tricks that he's using in the player, I mean, he uses in Nashville, right?”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:17:32 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

Ray (2004): 1 line

unmapped (parody of) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: Ray ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard arrived in the wake of Ray and Walk the Line and skewers their clichés.
“that film coming out in the wake of things like Ray, and especially walk the line”
The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:51 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke.
“Going back to singing in the rain.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Doors (1991): 1 line

industry (marketing mimicry) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: The Doors ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard's poster of John C. Reilly was modeled on Val Kilmer in The Doors so it would pass as a real biopic.
“the poster of John C. Riley is modeled on Val Kilmer in the doors, right?”
The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:30:27 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye (1973): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales.
“that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

Touch of Evil (1958): 1 line

craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Touch of Evil ⇒ The Player (the host's read). The Player's opening nods to Touch of Evil's tracking shot by having Fred Ward's character talk about it, then reveal he never watches foreign films.
“Fred Ward talking about the tracking shot and touch of evil, but then revealing that he never watches foreign films.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Elvis (2022): 2 lines

unmapped (prefigured by) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read). A scene in Elvis (the subject thinking over his life before going on stage) is almost beat for beat preceded by Walk Hard.
“there is a scene that is almost beat for beat preceded by walk hard 15 years ago.”
The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
unmapped (parody of a parody) · through Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which they acted in: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ⇒ Elvis (the host's read). Elvis seems to parody Walk Hard's parody of women ripping open shirts at the star.
“somehow this movie is doing a parody of the Walkhard parody of the scene of like women like busting open.”
The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

The Larry Sanders Show (1992): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read). Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb.
“Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (2) everyone in acting

actor (detective), The Player (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)
actor/performer, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (The Big Picture, ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics)

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

people (people): Julia Roberts → Lyle Lovett. Wesley asks a gossip question about whether Julia Roberts met Lyle Lovett on The Player.
“Did Julia Roberts meet Lyle Lovett on the set of this movie?”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:59:31 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.