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Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey. This is Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast. I'm here with my co-host Frank Santopadre and once again where we're cutting it, not Meg with the

R&D with our engineer, Frank Verderosa. Our guest today is someone whose name has come up repeatedly on this show and we're glad he's finally here with us. He's a writer, producer and one of the most original and visionary filmmakers of the last half century. His television credits include The Fugitive, The Defenders, The Rap Patrol, Colombo, NYP,

D. Blue, Miss, Masters of Horror and three memorable shows that he created, branded, Corneth Blue and The Invaders. His wildly inventive feature films include Bone, Black Caesar, Hell Up in Harlem. It's a live maniac top.

Wicked stepmother, guilty as sin. Cue the wing serpent. Bestseller. God told me to. The private files of Jay Eger Hoover returned to Salem slot.

Bone booth, Cellular and the stuff. In a long and storied career he's worked with Bernard Herman, Leven Cleef, Rick Baker, Yaffid Cotto, Alan Arkin, Betty Davis, James Earl Jones, David Caradine, Sydney Lamette,

Penny Youngman and former podcast guest, Mick Garris, Danny Ayello, Joyce Van Patten and Tony Lobionko. The brand new documentary about his life and equally fascinating career is called King Cohen, the wild world of filmmaker Larry Cohen and features interviews with his family.

His friends and colleagues, including John Landis, Martin Scorsese, J.J. Abrams, former podcast guest, Joe Dante and Larry's frequent collaborator, Michael Moriare.

Please welcome to the show a true author, a genuine maverick and a man who once tried to pass off Robert De Niro as a Jew, the legendary Larry Cohen.

Yes, yes, hello, how you doing Larry? I kind of missed those credits because you repeat that.

Now, can we start off with that? Well, you love the old people from movies, like not just the actors, but you know, old directors, camera man, sin and photographers, higher George Falsy for the end of his career.

And he was retired. I got him out of retirement. I brought him back. Yeah, he worked with the Marx brothers for God's sake.

And he did, he did, he did the first two Marx brothers pictures, coconut, yeah, cinematographer. Yeah. Yeah, he'd been around. He worked for me after that. Yeah. Yep. Yep. He also did meet me in St. Louis with Judy Garland.

Oh, yes, and and and green dolphin street with Lana Turner. I mean, he did some, he photographed every famous actress at MGM. He was an MGM contract cinematographer. Yeah, he did all those movies. And after I brought him back, he, he, after I brought him back, he went on to do that.

That's entertainment. After me. That's right. I got him out of retirement. And so, and I can't do that for you guys. Can I get you guys out of retirement?

Yeah. Be wonderful. And you, you went after a legendary movie composer, Burn on Herman, best known for writing the score for psycho.

Citizen Kane too. Yes. Yes. And and North by Northwest and to catch a thief and all, you know, so many great Hitchcock pictures. North by Northwest. He did, he did all those films. And then he, then you know, then he, then he went to work for me and was never heard of again.

Now, now, his is my favorite part of the documentary. Burn on Herman, you know, you to become friends. He works with you. And and then one 90 passes away in his sleep. He was an older guy. And they were having a service for him, a funeral service. And at my house.

Yes. And he burned on her. A lot of people, a lot of people have funos at my house. And he went to our space. And and and he was a Jewish service. And for some reason, in the movie business, that they had trouble finding enough Jews.

We didn't we we we sent out for the extra service to send us a bunch of Jews, but they they they didn't we got we got a bunch of Puerto Ricans by mistake. And and and so I had to turn to these Italians, Brian, Dupama, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and say to them, look, you guys got to go into living room in a circle with and pretend to be Jews.

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