# Emily Halpern

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Interview with Emily Halpern, Screenwriter of 80 For Brady, Produced by Tom Brady, and Booksmart

For the first interview on Sky High Sports and Entertainment I interview Emily Halpern, screenwriter of 80 For Brady and Booksmart on what it was like to work with Tom Brady as a producer, seeing him the night before he retired at the premiere, what it was like writing for legendary actresses Lilly…

80 For Brady - MAIN REVIEW: We Are Going To The Super Bowl!

Welcome to a brand-new episode of "We Watch It!" with your hosts Cody Aaron Hanify, Shannon Mahaffey, and J.T. Hazzard. In today's episode, your hosts are reviewing the movie "80 For Brady" and sharing their thoughts on the recent Super Bowl and some of our favorite commercials. "80 For Brady" is …

Emily Halpern | Singer-Songwriter

My very special guest today is Singer & Songwriter, Emily Halpern. I regard these two things in life as highly valuable. The Gift of Laughter - I can never repay the gift of the laughter that someone shared with me. The Gift of Music I can never repay a music artist for the gift of their music, and…

Ep 142 - Booksmart

Let us go back to high school with a review of 2019’s buddy comedy Booksmart. A duo of young women realize that they have spent their entire highschool career playing it safe and focusing on good grades. That is until the haunting realization that the peers they always assumed were lesser are going…

Ep. 106 Booksmart: Are You As Nostalgic As Shade?

Class is back in session but here at Popcorn Therapy we're skipping straight to the end of the school year. That's right friends, we're doing 2019's Booksmart. Join Shade and Chelsey as they talk about their own school days, friendship, enmeshment, boundaries, porn in the backseat, and how Chelsey …

A Love Letter to Lucques - 7 True Stories Told by 7 Special Guests of Lucques - Part I

THIS EPISODE ORIGINALLY AIRED ON RADIO IN AUGUST 2020 I am incredibly proud of this episode. Featuring seven guests and just as many collaborators, it was six weeks of pre-production, and two weeks of post-production. This episode was our most significant production effort to date. These stories …

Booksmart (2019)

Booksmart is a 2019 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Olivia Wilde (in her feature directorial debut) and written by Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, and Katie Silberman. It stars Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as two graduating high school girls who set out to finally …

Not Caught Up - The Four Seasons: Season 1

In this episode, Nathan and Whitney recap Season 1 of Netflix’s smart, heartwarming ensemble dramedy starring Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Colman Domingo, Will Forte and more. Based on the 1981 film, the series reimagines the story of three longtime couples who vacation together each season — until divo…

11: Academy Awards Season Episode

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, novelist and screenwriter Brit Bennett and television and screenwriter Emily Halpern discuss their projects and craft with hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell. What is it like to adapt your own novel for screen—for Kerry Washington? What…

Booksmart: Diving Into Intimacy with Brooke M. Haney

Two intimacy coordinators are joined by Brooke M. Haney to break down the intimacy and sex scenes in Booksmart. Olivia Wilde's directorial debut proves awkward queer intimacy doesn't need to be polished to be powerful. This one's about awkward first times. Skinny jeans. Bad geometry. Zero game. In …