Talk Radio

Monologist Eric Bogosian's one-man theatre piece Talk Radio, co-written by Bogosian and Ted Savinar, is searingly brought to the screen by Oliver Stone. Bogosian plays a provocateur radio talk-show host, whose constant espousal of his inflammatory views and ceaseless hectoring of his callers and ...more

In its original stage version, Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio seemed like a series of well-composed rants, ultimately cohering into something deeper and more telling. For the film, Bogosian and director/co-screenwriter Oliver Stone give us more background on talk radio host Barry Champlain (Bogosian) and increase the prominence of the threats on his life, inspired by the assassination of Denver radio commentator Alan Berg. With more characters upon whom to vent his spleen, notably Ellen Greene as ...more