280. Treat Williams

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Actor, writer and cinephile Treat Williams stops by the studio to talk about his 45 years in film, his admiration for Frank Capra and William Wyler, his love of old movie theaters and his memories of working with legendary directors Milos Forman, Sergio Leone and Steven Spielberg. Also, Vincent Price disses Alan Thicke, John Belushi auditions for "Hair," Gilbert hangs with Katharine Hepburn and Treat cameos in "The Empire Strikes Back"! PLUS: "The Phantom"! Praising Bob Balaban! The mastery of Sidney Lumet! Gene Hackman cuts to the check! And Treat remembers James Cagney, Martin Landau and Orson Welles! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	People this is Phil Rosenthal and I'm on Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast. Why aren't you listening?
0:06.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santo Padre and our
0:35.0	engineer Frank Verderosa. Our guest this week is one of the most respected and prolific stage and screen actors of his generation.
0:46.1	You've seen him in popularity shows like Blue Blood, Chicago Fire, Brothers and Sisters, White Color, Heartland, CSI,
0:58.6	Chesapeake Shaws and Everwood, but it's his work on the big screen that's brought in the most acclaimed and attention and memorable films.
1:10.7	He's moving you already.
1:13.2	Yes, like the rich 1941. Once upon a time in America, the Phantom, Smooth Dog, Dead Heat, the Devil's Own, Deep Rising,
1:25.8	the pursuit of Debi Cooper, Mulholland Falls, Hollywood Ending, 127 hours and a movie we love to talk about on this podcast, Sydney Lumet's Prince of the City.
1:44.5	Four decades ago, he starred all along with our three children.
1:51.1	Gilbert, I'm falling asleep. Get to the point. Get to the chase, Gilbert. Get through that part. I'm boring myself.
1:57.1	Yeah.
2:00.3	Now see this also search as you wrote this crap. This will work as your obituary, too.
2:09.3	I will never let him climb. Yeah, yeah. Found dead in his New York apartment.
2:13.9	My obituary was I told you I was sick. That's all I want my bravestone to say.
2:19.2	And he worked with Chip Lone to people.
2:22.2	Wow.
2:23.6	Let's get talking.
2:25.3	I have the interest sisters.
2:26.8	Oh, yes, the interest sisters.
2:28.4	I appeared many times on Ed Sullivan.
2:32.2	Did a necklamp production of Playhouse 90s?
2:35.7	Yeah.
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