Some Like It Scott

Hello everyone and welcome to Some Like It Scott's newest Countdown miniseries: the Wes Anderson Countdown. To honor one of the great still-working indie writer-director auteurs, who's next film ASTEROID CITY comes out later this year, Scott, Scott, and Jay will be watching all 10 of the American filmmakers' works to-date, from his origins with the '90s heist-comedy BOTTLE ROCKET, all the way to his latest feature, 2021's star-studded anthology drama THE FRENCH DISPATCH. Join us each week over the next 10 weeks as we progress through Anderson's full oeuvre in the buildup to ASTEROID CITY! On the third episode of the Anderson Countdown, Scott, Scott, and Jay review Wes Anderson's 2001 family comedy-drama, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS. Created in the same style as RUSHMORE - directed by Wes Anderson and co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson - THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS is narrated by Alec Baldwin but led by Tenenbaum family patriarch, Royal (Gene Hackman), who has been separated for over 20 years from his wife, Etheline (