Marc Shaiman

Yeah.

And, um, and I got introduced to Bette through Mark Shaiman, who I'm very close with.

A legend.

And so B- Bette paid attention to me because of course Mark's her favorite.

We'll come back to it in a second Now we're gonna take another light little break for more of the, um, crew.

Um, so our composer is Marc Shaiman, who also did the music for Misery, which of course director Sonnenfeld shot, so they got to work together on that, like-

Cute

... just before this.

I mean, I...

That was another thing I talked to Marc Shaiman about a bunch of his, because he's, Marc Shaiman is, like, the music...

If you don't know, if you don't follow soundtrack stuff, like, all of the rom-com soundtracks either were by him or inspired by him.

Marc Shaiman did the score for my favorite film, Southpaw, Bigelow, or Uncut.

There you go.

Like, he's a dream guest for the show.

Yeah, he'd just been...

He was in a...

I remember when Bowie came and he brought this huge entourage and, and, uh, she was with him and, um, and when, when Richard O'Brien was about to kill me, she, she shouted, "N- no, no, don't do it." [laughs] And, um, so I guess she was one of the first people to sort of do that.

And Marc Shaiman, who's the sort of famous composer now, was one of the first to actually talk back in the, in the Waverly.

Um, I think he began it here in New York.

And now, of course, it's everywhere.

Hello, I'm Hal Lublin.

And I'm Mark Gagliardi.

[dramatic music]

Since the dawn of humanity, one issue has gone unsettled.

You know what? You're right.

We got this.

Mark.

Yes, Hal?