Sam Wasson

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Leonard Maltin

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4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Sam Wasson has become one of the finest Hollywood historians of our time, and also one of the most productive. His newest book, The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story is not a conventional biography but an insightful analysis of the formidable filmmaker. It joins Sam’s earlier books on Blake Edwards, Paul Mazursky, and the making of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Chinatown as essential reading. He also coauthored with Jeanine Basinger a hefty new volume called Hollywood: the Oral History. He and Leonard maintain a mutual admiration society and Jessie is its newest recruit.

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0:29.6	Hi everyone, I'm Leonard Malton and. And I'm Jesse Moulton.
0:38.3	You're listening to Maltin on movies.
0:40.3	And our guest today is a friend of mine.
0:43.3	And somebody I admire as well as like, he's got a new book out called A Path to Paradise,
0:51.3	Francis Coppola. It's Francis Ford Coppola's story. Did I get it right?
0:56.8	Yeah, the path, yes. Okay. It's because it's not the simplest title, but it's a very
1:02.6	specifically chosen title. We'll talk about that in a minute. He's written many wonderful
1:07.7	books, all of them worth reading. All of them will reward you for reading
1:12.7	that. His name of Sam Lawson. Hi, Sam. Hi, Leonard. Hi, Jesse. I'm so glad to see your faces.
1:20.5	Ditto, my friend. And most importantly, we collectively worship at the Janine Basinger Shrine.
1:27.2	And I think that she is one of those people where, as we were just saying,
1:32.5	if somebody knows Janine, loves Janine, there's a beautiful small cult that has been built.
1:42.7	And you just know it's a friend. It's like a high sign.
1:46.0	Exactly. Exactly right.
1:51.0	We should tell our listeners who don't know who, Jeanine.
1:56.0	She is a...
1:57.0	If you don't know, leave. Get out.
1:59.0	She is a living legend, truly, the most celebrated teacher of film in America.
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