Best Of: ‘The Invite’ screenwriters / Guitarist Lenny Kaye
7/18/202649 min
Rashida Jones and Will McCormack are the screenwriting duo behind ‘The Invite.’ It takes on the realities of marriage in middle age, told over the course of one dinner party that spirals out of control. They’ve been mining stories like this together for decades, finding the funny inside the painful. “We are never above a laugh. There's nothing that's grave enough for us not to laugh about, because that's how we release. That's how we process our pain,” Jones tells Tonya Mosley.
Also, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith’s longtime guitarist, has his first solo album at age 79. It’s called ‘Goin’ Local.’ He spoke with Terry Gross about his decades-long collaboration with Smith and evolving with age and experience.
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First 90 secondsTonya Mosley· Host0:00
One year ago, Congress eliminated over a billion dollars in funding for public media, yet we, the people, haven't backed down. When you donate to the independent non-profits that make up the NPR network, we hold the powerful to account together. It's the kind of journalism democracy requires that we, the public, must protect. Join the community of people who power this work at donate.npr.org. From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tonya Mosley in Los Angeles. Today, writing team Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Their new film, The Invite, takes on the realities of marriage in middle age, told over the course of one dinner party that goes into salacious territory. Jones and McCormack have been mining stories like this together for decades, and finding the funny inside the painful.
Rashida Jones· Guest0:51
We are never above a laugh. There's nothing that's grave enough for us not to laugh about because that's how we process our pain. It's like we laugh through death and sickness and sadness.
Tonya Mosley· Host1:02
Also, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith's longtime guitarist. He's made his first solo album at 79.
Speaker 31:10
It's about time you made your own album. Why did you never do it before, and why did you do it now?
Speaker 41:14
Well, Terry, I've been slightly busy.
Tonya Mosley· Host1:17
[laughs] [laughs] That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
Speaker 51:21
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