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🗓️ 26 March 2013
⏱️ 27 minutes
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BONUS EPISODE: Elvis Mitchell talks to playwright, screenwriter and film director David Mamet about his new HBO film, "Phil Spector."
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0:00.0 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. You're listening to a special web edition of the treatment recorded at LACMA. |
0:05.3 | Playwright and feature film writer-director David Mamet recently made his first film for HBO, |
0:10.5 | a docu drama on the circumstances surrounding legendary music producer Phil Spector's murder trial. |
0:16.1 | The made-for-HBO film, Phil Specter, stars Oscar-winner winners Al Pacino and Helen Mirren. |
0:21.7 | David Mamet joined me for a discussion with a live audience at Film Independence Lackma series. |
0:29.3 | Can you remember the first time you heard a record you could identify as a Phil Spector song? |
0:34.7 | I don't know if I knew was Phil Spector, but I certainly grew up in the days of the transistor |
0:38.5 | radio in Duwop, you know, WLS in Chicago and Dick Biondi and all of that stuff. So that was the |
0:44.9 | soundtrack to all of our lives. Because he almost feels that interest he gets, he feels like a |
0:51.6 | mammic character the way you wrote him. And I know that you'd seen that terrific Vikram Jayanti documentary, The Agony, the X, of Phil Spector, where he's that |
1:00.0 | same kind of character. If you're watching that documentary, you feel like he's a mammic character |
1:03.4 | already. Well, I don't know. So we were also, my agent John Burnham sent me this documentary by Vikram Gianty, The Agony, the Excessy, at Phil Spectre. |
1:10.9 | So you've got to see this. |
1:12.3 | So being prejudiced and brain dead myself, I say, I don't want to see that thing, but |
1:16.5 | that guy, he's a creep. |
1:18.6 | But I started watching it. |
1:19.7 | And of course, after 10 seconds, I was fascinated. |
1:22.2 | And after a minute or two, I was just enthralled. |
1:26.8 | And I got in touch with Phil, I wrote him a letter. |
1:30.4 | And he didn't respond to the letter. |
1:31.6 | He responded through his then lawyer, Leslie Abramson, said, Mr. |
1:35.3 | Spector got your letter. |
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