Ep. 155 - The Last Tycoon; Remembering Sam Shepard - TV & Movie Reviews

Will Anne Hathaway be Queen? A posthumous close to Garry Marshall's Princess Diaries trilogy? At 2:16: Screen Thoughts pays homage with this week's #ListOfSix: 6 Amazing Things about the late, great, Pulitzer-winning Sam Shepard, who really seemed made of The Right Stuff. ​8:50: Amazon calls on the Mad Men team to turn F. Scott Fitzgerald's last (and unfinished) novel into a 9-part series: The Last Tycoon. Written & created by Billy Ray; cinematography by Danny Moder. Starring Matt Bomer, Kelsey Grammer, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lily Collins, Dominique McElligott, and Jennifer Beals. 9:24: Amazon's adaptation inspires this week's #BlastFromThePastFilm: Elia Kazan's prior iteration The Last Tycoon (1976); written by Harold Pinter; starring Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Nicholson. ​30:44: 20 years after her death, a real-life Princess Diaries: Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy (HBO).