Episode 1160 - Barry Levinson

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Barry Levinson finds himself waking up in disbelief to every outlandish and shocking item in the day's news. It's a different mode for a filmmaker who spent his career focused on the natural, quiet moments that make up everyday life. Marc and Barry talk about his beginnings at a Washington, DC television station, his early comedy writing that landed him at The Comedy Store, The Carrol Burnett Show, and with Mel Brooks, and his breakout movies like Diner, The Natural and Rain Man. They also contemplate whether American Democracy can survive, which is the subject of the new doc Barry produced, Stars and Strife.

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0:00.0	Lock the gates!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.2	How are you?
0:12.2	What the fuckers?
0:13.2	What the fuck buddies?
0:14.2	What the fuck, Nick?
0:15.2	What's happening?
0:16.2	I'm Mark Maren.
0:17.2	This is my podcast.
0:19.0	Barry Levinson is on the show today.
0:20.6	This is a very big day.
0:22.9	Barry Levinson, brilliant screenwriter and brilliant director.
0:28.4	Oscar-winning director of Rainman, Diner, The Natural, Bugsy, Good Morning, Vietnam.
0:33.6	He wrote for the Carol Burnett show.
0:35.6	He co-created homicide, life on the street, and Oz.
0:40.9	He and his wife at the time wrote, and Justice for All, which I watch the other night.
0:46.6	Great fucking movie.
0:48.7	He's the executive producer of the new documentary, Stars and Stripe.
0:53.2	And he's got a past at the comedy store.
0:56.1	And for those of you who listen to me, no, that's, you know, I got to know about that.
1:02.1	How does he fall into the grand history of the comedy store?
1:07.7	Barry Levinson.
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