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Maltin on Movies

78 Films From the 80's with Samm Levine

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2662 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Actor, comedian, and fellow movie lover Samm Levine is back to join Leonard for a discussion of films of the 1980s: the box-office hits, enduring favorites, and titles we’ve all forgotten. They also discuss remakes, what it means for a movie to be considered a classic, and the pre-computer & post-cellphone eras in film.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome to Malton on movies. I am Leonard Malton, and I'm happy to be here.

0:09.2

I want to say to you that Baron Vaughn will not be here, and not because of any acrimony or any

0:18.2

problem or anything like that. It's just that he's too darn busy. He is, as you know, playing Lily Tomlin's son on Grace and Frankie for yet another

0:26.2

season. And he's also going to be the voice or presence of Servo on the reboot of Mystery Science

0:32.8

Theater 3,000. And Baron and I love working together, but it's just not working out in terms of the timetable.

0:40.7

So he has an open invitation, which I've told him privately, and now I'm saying publicly, to drop by any time he likes.

0:47.4

And in the meantime, we will have a multitude of guests, and we will have my daughter Jesse, who's been here before, and you may have heard, and a few surprises.

0:58.4

So that's how it's going to go, and I'm looking forward to talking to today's guest. He's a returning guest.

1:04.0

How about that? Is that like being, let those people say, I'm a first-time caller?

1:08.8

Long-time listener. First-time calling, yeah.

1:11.2

You're a returning guest. And a first-time caller. Long-time listener. First-time caller, yeah. Well, you're a returning guest.

1:12.4

And a long-time listener and multiple-time guest.

1:16.2

Very exciting.

1:17.4

Very exciting.

1:17.9

I'm talking about Sam Levine.

1:19.8

Actor, comedian,

1:22.4

Bon Vivant,

1:23.9

man about town,

1:25.9

overall good guy.

1:26.8

Oh, stop.

1:27.2

And a winner on more than one occasion

1:30.2

of the Leonard Maltin game

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