Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried Netsis Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my

co-host Frank Santopadre. Our guest this week is a journalist occasional columnist, a former magazine

editor film historian and best-selling author, his debut book 2008, Pictures at a Revolution,

five movies and the birth of New Hollywood, detailed the fall of the studio system, the dawn of the

new Golden Age of movies, and the introduction of the motion picture rating system, and was called a

first rate and deliciously readable cultural history by the Los Angeles Times. In 2014, he published

his second book, Five Came Back, a story of Hollywood and the second world war, which explored

the wartime experiences of filmmakers Frank Capra, John Houston, William Wiler, George Stevens,

and John Ford. He also wrote the script for the acclaimed and essential 2017 Netflix Netflix

documentary series based on his book Featuring, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and

Merrill Streep among others. His newest project published just this year is Mike Nichols, a life,

a magnificent 594 page biography about one of the most creative and versatile artists of the

in the history of popular entertainment, which the Washington Post called Shrewd, in-depth,

intelligent and eloquently written, an NPR called a master work, endlessly engaging and one of the

best biographies of an American artist. Frank and I are excited to welcome to this show a fellow

native New Yorker, a gifted writer, and someone who is probably forgotten more about cinema than the

two of us will ever know. And a man who can think of one single nice thing to say about Rex Harrison.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Harris. Mark! Hi, that's a lot to live up to. What's some of that,

factual? I'm going to say all of it. Yeah, I'll take all of that. So let's begin. Now,

Rex Harrison, a original doctor, do a little. And of course, my fair lady. Now, you're saying he

was a scumbag. Well, in my defense, I want to say that the only time that I was researching pictures

at a revolution were actually stopped and said, I've got to go find somebody to say something nice

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