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The Bulwark Podcast

Sam Wasson: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Coppola is like a Method actor behind the camera—living the movie to make the movie. For The Godfather, he became like a godfather. And most famously, the method behind the making of Apocalypse Now was a descent into madness. Author Sam Wasson joins guest host Sonny Bunch today.

show notes:

Wasson's new book: "The Path to Paradise"

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com pricing shown. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Welcome back to the Bullwork Podcast.

0:47.0

I'm the Bullworks Culture Editor, Sunday Bunch.

0:51.6

I'm sitting in for Charlie Sykes, who's taking a well-deserved break.

0:54.1

Some of you may know that I host the Bullwerk Goes to Hollywood Podcast, and I thought I'd bring a little taste of that business of Showbiz show to y'all today with my guest Sam Wausen.

1:05.0

He is the author of books on Bob Fosse, Audrey Hepburn, and Breakfast to Tiffany's,

1:09.1

The Making of Chinatown, and Hollywood, The Oral History,

1:12.2

and he is back on bookshelves right now with the Path to Paradise a Francis Ford

1:17.0

copala story which is a fascinating and compulsively readable look at the rise and

1:22.2

fall and potentially kind of rebirth of copala impulsively readable, look at the rise and fall,

1:22.9

and potentially kind of rebirth of Copla's

1:25.6

company Zoetrope.

1:26.9

Sam, thanks for being on the show today.

1:28.9

Thank you.

1:29.8

I'm glad to be here.

1:31.2

Everyone who knows Movies knows that Francis Ford Coppler is one of the most

1:34.4

important filmmakers of the new Hollywood era, right?

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