James Caan: Last of the Tough-Guy Movie Stars

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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4.4 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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At the end of the 1950s, James Caan, son of a German-Jewish butcher, had been kicked out of ROTC and was too poor to finish college on his own. He started a job for his godfather unpacking meat along the docks of the Hudson River. Less than a decade late

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0:00.0	This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing.
0:07.7	Actor James Khan is tougher than tough.
0:11.8	It was Coppola who first saw a spark of danger in this Jewish kid from rough and tumble
0:17.7	sunny side queens.
0:19.6	Khan's characters, especially the early ones, are volatile, with liberal dashes of mischief
0:26.5	and humor.
0:28.0	In the Godfather, he was sunny Corleone, a reckless cold-blooded killer.
0:34.8	There are lots of killers and lots of great actors in the Godfather.
0:38.7	Only Khan pulled it off with that grin and shwata-theave.
0:44.3	The streets of Queens are still his spiritual home, but today Khan lives in Beverly Hills
0:50.6	where he invited me for this conversation.
0:53.6	His assistant Mikey is never far away.
0:57.1	You can sit with us by the way.
0:58.1	The National Cleveland Annie's in Polo.
1:00.9	What the fuck do you want him to sit with us for?
1:03.5	There's no denying that Khan plays a certain type.
1:06.9	He was a hard-bitten gambler in El Dorado and another hard-bitten gambler in the gambler.
1:13.8	He broke into safes and thief and into houses in flesh and bone.
1:18.8	He loved his macho roles, but they frustrated him too.
1:22.7	I didn't get a fucking script that didn't have 12 people dead by baked 20.
1:26.6	I mean for three years.
1:27.6	And then someone said, oh, wait a minute, you can sing a dance?
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