Randal Kleiser

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Leonard Maltin

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

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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He acted in George Lucas’ first student film. He directed Honey, We Shrunk the Audience for Disney theme parks in 70mm 3-D. He made a virtual reality television series. He studied at USC with actress Nina Foch and “total filmmaker” Jerry Lewis. But as long as he lives, Randal Kleiser will be best known as the guy who directed Grease. He has a new book called Drawing Directors, based on his close encounters with notable colleagues, and has completed a documentary about his high school graduating class called Baby Boomer Yearbook. As Leonard and Jessie learned, Randal lives in the present, looking toward the future.

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0:29.3	hi everybody I'm Leonard Malton and I'm Jesse Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.
0:38.3	And you're listening to Malton on movies.
0:40.3	And our guest today is somebody that I've known for a long, long time.
0:44.3	You've known him longer than you've known me.
0:46.3	That's true.
0:47.3	But I keep discovering new facets of his fertile mind and imagination. And we'll talk about as many of these
0:58.1	projects as we can his name is Randall Kleiser and the short version of who he
1:04.2	is he's the guy who directed Greece yeah among I say, among many other things.
1:10.9	Among many other things you have accomplished and continue to accomplish.
1:14.8	So welcome.
1:15.9	Thank you. Thank you very much.
1:17.9	And we are now tied.
1:19.5	Yes, good to see you too.
1:21.4	We are now tied by a unexpected coincidence, I guess, which is that I haven't grown up in New York and attended NYU,
1:33.3	now have been teaching here at USC for 25 years.
1:40.3	Wow.
1:41.3	You are an alumnus. Yeah. Of the very same school. And you took this class that I now teach
1:51.8	when Arthur Knight was first doing it. And we called it Thursday Night at the movies. Yeah.
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