John Badham

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

John Badham directed Saturday Night Fever and even after decades of other good work (WarGames, Whose Life Is It Anyway, et al) that remains his calling card. But he and John Travolta had an uncomfortable standoff during production at 2 a.m. in freezing weather on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in NYC, as he recounts in his lively book I’ll Be in My Trailer—which is available for the first time as an audiobook. He’s been drawing on his vast experience while teaching at Chapman University in Orange, California for the past 19 years. Leonard and Jessie learned useful “life lessons” from John during our hour-long conversation.

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0:33.7	Hi everybody. I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.
0:38.3	You're listening to Malton on movies.
0:40.3	And speaking of movies, we're interviewing a man today who today is sending out future film directors and writers into the world,
0:52.3	but has a resume as long as your arm of TV shows and movies
0:57.3	that he's directed.
0:58.5	You might have heard of Saturday Night Fever.
1:00.3	Never.
1:01.3	No.
1:02.6	Or war games or Blue Thunder or Nick of Time or one of my favorites, the bingo long traveling
1:10.7	all stars and motor kings
1:12.5	which was his first theatrical feature but he directed lots of television before that and has done
1:17.7	television since he is a director and he's appropriately at the directing program at chapman
1:24.8	university here in southern california you say hello to John Batham.
1:29.8	Hi there. Hi, everybody. Everybody who's listening to this, thanks for tuning in and stick with us.
1:35.7	The good part's coming yet. Well, we just said, so you just finished your 19th year teaching.
1:42.4	My dad just completed 25 at USC. And for those who don't know, Chapman University is an orange, California, which is south of Los Angeles. And it's an incredibly well-known school and has a fantastic film program.
1:59.8	Which has been growing.
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