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April 9 - 15, 2023 WHATS UP! T11 films. The question is less clear for directors, though, whose compensation often comes not from a salary but from back-end results tied to how the film per- forms. This makes sense in a lot of ways. Directors are generally considered to be more responsi- ble for how a film does at the box office, so it makes sense to tie their compensation to results. For the same reasons, the me- dia more often talks about the highest-grossing directors, rath- er than the highest-paid ones. (We're also, as a society, a little less interested in knowing about the lavish lifestyles of the people behind the cameras than the people in front of them.) With that in mind, it might not surprise you to know the high- est-grossing director of all time is a guy by the name of Steven Spielberg. Thanks to a consis- tent string of hits reaching all the way back to the '70s (including 1993's "Jurassic Park" and 1982's "E.T. the Extra-terrestrial" as just two examples), he tops the list, having grossed more than $10 billion. It's interesting to note, too, that the list people talk about is all-time, rather than annual. This seems to be because there are annual flukes that put relatively unknown directors at the top. Would you care to know, for example, that the highest-gross- ing director of 2021 was Jon Watts, who helmed "Spider- Man: No Way Home," and is re- ally only famous for Spider-Man movies? Or would you rather hear that the all-time list is char- acterized by a race between Spielberg and James Cameron, thanks to the latter's string of hits including the Avatar movies and the Terminator franchise? Q: What ever happened to Scott Aukerman, host of the show "Comedy Bang Bang"? I thought he was great. A: Though it ran for four years on IFC, the critically acclaimed improv-comedy show "Comedy Bang Bang" was just a blip in Scott Aukerman's much longer, and more notable, career as a podcasting pioneer. "Comedy Bang! Bang!" was a podcast first (actually it was briefly a radio show, then a pod- cast), and it's still running today. It's the flagship show of the Ear- wolf podcast network, which Aukerman co-founded. Earwolf has produced dozens of other (mostly comedy) podcasts over the years, launching almost as many careers. Aukerman still does the "Comedy Bang! Bang!" podcast, but he's also continued with film and TV. Most notably, he recent- ly directed, wrote and produced "Between Two Ferns: The Mov- ie" (2019), which was based on his long-running web series of the same name. He's also been producing a lot of shows, such as Netflix's "Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun" and the four-season come- dy series "Bajillion Dollar Prop- erties." Any of these would be good watches if you liked "Comedy Bang! Bang!," but you might do better to just listen to the pod- cast (available on Earwolf.com or on any of the various podcast platforms out there). It even still features many of the same regu- lar faces and recurring charac- ters you'd know from the show. Have a question? Email us at questions@tvtabloid.com. Please include your name and town. Per- sonal replies will not be provided. Advance Pest Control 2 x 2 TAKE 5 Solution on page T23 Use the clues above and beside the grid to fill in the squares BY ADAM THOMLISON TV Media Q: Has Mia Farrow ever won an Oscar? A: The snub goes deeper than that. Not only has she never won, she hasn't even been nomi- nated. Despite being considered one of the great screen stars of the '60s and '70s, and having ap- peared in a number of highly re- garded, very serious pieces of cinema, Mia Farrow ("Rose- mary's Baby," 1968; "The Great Gatsby," 1974) has never been nominated for acting's biggest prize. Instead, she's had to settle for a bunch of lesser awards. For ex- ample, she won a Golden Globe (arguably acting's second-big- gest prize) for best newcomer for "Guns at Batasi" (1964), and a handful of best-actress awards from film festivals around the world. You could argue that she in- stead spent her career making the people she worked with look good. "Rosemary's Baby," her most celebrated film by far, was nomi- nated for a couple of other Os- cars. And her former husband, Woody Allen ("Hannah and Her Sisters," 1986), was nominated for a whopping 10 Oscars for films he and Farrow did togeth- er. She was widely referred to as his "muse" at the time he was doing some of his best work. It may not be too late for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the body that gives out the Oscars) to correct their mistake. Farrow hasn't done a film in a while, but she's still acting. She most recently appeared on the small screen, in the Netflix horror series "The Watcher" in 2022. Her last film was the oddball 2011 dramedy "Dark Horse," which again was nominated for a handful of awards, but none for Farrow. Q: I know a lot of people talk about who the highest- paid actors are, but what about the highest-paid direc- tor? A: It's relatively straightfor- ward to determine what actors are paid. 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