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Maltin on Movies

Jon Burlingame and Steven Smith

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

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

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Two of the world’s foremost authorities on movie music—whom we also count as good friends—join in a buoyant conversation filled with insight and laughter. Jon Burlingame writes for Variety and teaches film scoring at USC; his books include The Music of James Bond. Steven Smith’s latest book is Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer. Together they represent an unbeatable storehouse of knowledge which they are eager to share with all of us.

 

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1:01.5

Hi everybody. I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton. And you're listening to

1:05.0

Malton on movies. And today we have the pleasure of welcoming two old friends. Don't call them old. That's not nice.

1:12.5

No, no, no, no. Old is a modifier for friends. It's not anything to do with chronological age.

1:18.9

Yeah, sure. Besides, they're both younger than springtime. And they get that reference because they're both music experts.

1:24.8

And we're old. Yeah.

1:28.1

Well, then shall I introduce you an order of seniority?

1:32.5

What should I do?

1:33.4

Alphabetical.

1:34.5

Alphabetically, here are John Burlingame, the preeminent reporter, author, scholar, teacher of film music, and the winner of the Ascab Deems Taylor Award for his wonderful book, The Music of James Bond, and also the author, a number of other books, the ones that I have a deep affection for is called TV's Biggest Hits.

2:04.8

I go back to it all the time.

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