From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

My guest, actor Paul and DiMadi, has had a more varied career than probably any activist generation.

He's done comedy, drama, studio films, independent films, TV.

He won the Emmy Force Betrayal of John Adams in the HBO miniseries.

Let's just see how wide the expanse goes, from Russell Crow to Howard Stern to Martin Lawrence to Julia Roberts to

Clive Owen twice.

And that's a redgraves in there somewhere too.

I'm sure I'm missing on some people.

And his new film, Barney's version, he joins the select group of actors who starred in

films that Moro Carriqa adapted from his own novels.

Of course, that group includes Joshua here and now with James Woods and Richard Dreyfus

in the apprenticeship of Dutty Kravitz.

How are you, Paul?

I'm very good, sir.

Yeah, thank you.

Do you know the other Mordecai Richler films?

Do you get a chance to see them out?

I vaguely remember Dutty Kravitz. I must have seen the other one, but I was not on my radar as much.

When I did this, you know, I thought, oh, right, Dutty Kravitz.

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