4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Lawrence Grobel writes about the role of a lifetime: playing Al Pacino's biographer, consultant, and sometimes alter-ego in Salome.
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0:34.3 | Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I'm being the show for about 17 years now, And I so often get asked, how did you get to start? What made you want to do this? The man sitting across from me, Lawrence Grobel, who's... I'll put it this way. I'm such a cliche. I used to read Playboy magazine for the articles. And among the articles I read in Playboy, his interviews with Barbara Streisand, his interview with Marlon Brando, which is 35 years old this year, which made you think about your book, Conversations with Brando. |
0:59.9 | His newest book is, I Want You in My Movie, a look at the making of Al Pacino's Salome film in which he's intimately involved. |
1:08.2 | Larry Grobel, Lawrence Grubel, it's a pleasure and an honor to have you here. |
1:11.5 | And it's an honor to be here. The reason I'm here. So this is the reason I wanted to have you here. |
1:16.9 | As an interviewer, and your work to me is so profound. And some of the things that you touch on end up being a part of this time you spend with Pacino. |
1:25.3 | And I want you in my movies. First of all, let the audience know what that book's about. |
1:29.6 | Well, what happened is, Al was going to make, what decided he wanted to make a documentary |
1:33.7 | in a movie of Salome. |
1:35.8 | He was obsessed with Oscar Wilde. |
1:37.9 | He loved the words and the language. |
1:40.0 | And he knew it was going to be a small movie. |
1:41.4 | It was going to be one of those movies like looking for Richard or Chinese coffee or the local stigmatic things that he does. |
1:46.7 | These artistic obsessions. |
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