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Maltin on Movies

Alan Silvestri

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

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

4.2662 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Alan Silvestri’s credits as a film composer are a bit overwhelming: Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Abyss, The Avengers, and on and on. He has just hatched his first Broadway show, a musical version of Back to the Future that will soon open in London as well. And when John Williams was unable to compose the music for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, Alan was the one chosen to fill his shoes. (It’s a great story…) Leonard and Jessie knew this would be an exceptional interview because Alan and Leonard share a history: they graduated from high school in the same class!

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0:23.3

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0:29.3

Hi, I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.

0:38.2

You're listening to Malton on movies and we are talking via Zoom, as one does, to a fellow that I didn't really get to know until recent years, but we have a history because we went to Taneck High School together in Teaneck, New Jersey.

0:57.4

I'm welcoming Alan Silvestri. Hi there, Leonard and Jesse, it's great to see you guys,

1:04.1

and we were actually in the same class, same graduating class. We were, and we got written up in the

1:10.5

Bergen record not too many years ago

1:13.1

because you and I and a mutual friend Roger Burnbaum were kind of like the three local boys

1:20.5

who went out to Hollywood and made good. I have to say though, you Leonard, you got ink a lot sooner than I did.

1:30.7

Now, was this the dump on the hump or a different?

1:33.1

This was the dump on the hump.

1:34.4

Just checking.

1:35.4

Just checking.

1:36.4

These are things you don't forget as a kid, Alan, when your dad points at his old school

1:40.7

and goes, that's Teen Egg High.

1:43.3

We call that the dump on the home.

1:44.8

Well, the official name was the castle on the hill. Yes. But we didn't see it in the way.

1:49.5

We were young and rebellious. Yeah. And it was such a large class that we didn't really know each other.

1:57.4

And I didn't know Roger either. You and Roger, though, were good buddies, right? Yes,

2:01.5

yes. Actually, Roger and I first met when we were nine years old playing Little League. So that's

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