Scott Rudin

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as studio. The films the hosts said they were behind, which the two lists below run through too: Working Girl (1988); (Fox writers' office). Count them as producer (4 films) instead.

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.

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they were behind as ran Fox; pushed for Shelley Long: An Officer and a Gentleman ⇒ Working Girl (the host's read). The kiss-and-secretaries-cheer moment is an Officer and a Gentleman homage.
“And then I had the officer and a gentleman homage when they're kissing and one of the secretaries says, way to go.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:13:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Pretty Woman (1990): 2 lines

lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they were behind as ran Fox; pushed for Shelley Long: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story.
“It openly steal shit from this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming) · through Working Girl (1988), which they were behind as ran Fox; pushed for Shelley Long: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took.
“It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they were behind as ran Fox; pushed for Shelley Long: Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read). Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them.
“And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40 sure it was them)

Working Girl (1990 NBC series): 1 line

programming (programming) · through Working Girl (1988), which they were behind as ran Fox; pushed for Shelley Long: Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read). Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess.
“Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990”
The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

industry (1)

industry (industry): Scott Rudin → Wes Anderson. Rudin was one of the producers who grabbed, propelled, and protected certain filmmakers and let them work their way.
“there are a handful of filmmakers that that producer kind of, Grabbed and and propelled forward. And protected”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:34:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Scott Rudin: Rudin's assistants knew from a speakerphone button that it was time to bring him string cheese.
“Ruden's take was he pushed the polio button on his speakerphone.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:23:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)