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

You're listening to Malton on movies and today is our great pleasure and privilege be talking to Dean Elizabeth Daly.

And you're not just saying that because she's your boss.

No, no. But she is the dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and has been for 30 years and and you're not you're

not going out to the back door anytime soon are you well nobody's opened it yet

that's good that's a good thing what you One of the things you offer, of course, is now continuity.

Yeah.

You were sort of not a symbol, but you're a personification of stability and continuity at the school.

Yeah. The other thing, of course, is that you and my mom are quite similar,

which is that you're very, very tiny and very powerful. Oh, it always warn people. You know,

the smaller they are, the feistyer they get.

And that's what you have to watch out for.

But what I want to know, because I don't often get to actually talk to you like a real person,

because you're usually running from a screening or doing, God knows what.

How did this all start?

Where did you grow up? And how did you end up here?

Well, it's, you know, like many stories, it took many twists in terms that if you had asked me

if it was going to go that way when I was graduating from college, I would have said, oh, no,

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