Pushkin. Well, I had three big hits in a row. I broke up my marriage. I had a girlfriend who was not unattractive and successful model and became a name actress because of a

pictures show. We both looked, I've seen pictures of us at that time, together, and we both looked kind of good.

I think people were jealous.

It's impossible to gauge the level of envy in this town, and that's what I was experiencing but I didn't know

didn't know that's what it was I just thought so you know what's wrong me do I have a

ice cream on my shirt's life?

That was Peter Bogdanovich. I'm Sam Fricoso and this is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. Hello everyone welcome to the show this is talk easy I am San Francisco and today on the podcast is the one and only Peter Bogdanovich.

That sentence made me happy.

Just saying that alone made me happy.

Bogdanovich is a director, historian, former film critic, producer, overall Hollywood polymath.

However, I think when people begin describing Peter and his work, they leave out certain facts that I think are important both to Peter's life and his work.

So if I can for a moment moment let me start at the beginning. In May of 1939

Irma and Borslov Bogdanovich left Europe for New York. They arrived in the

city as the world's fair was underway. Two months later in

Kingston, New York, Peter was born. As Bogdanovich grew up, he became increasingly

interested in acting. This is something that almost always goes overlooked in describing and introducing Peter.

As a teenager, convinced somehow a renowned acting coach Stella Adler to let him into her class.

And by convinced I do mean lie. He told her at 16 that he was really 18 and I think we are all better off for it.

As a result of studying with her, Bogdanovich throughout his teens and early 20s acted and directed

in more than 40 stage productions.

And then in his early 20s, he pivoted to become a film programmer at the Museum of Modern Art and then shortly

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