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Hey folks, welcome to a special episode of the projection booth.

This is your host, Mike White, bringing you an interview with Anthony James.

Don't know the name.

You'll definitely know the face.

Anthony James was a villain in quite a few films and ends up being one of the nicest guys that I have

ever had the pleasure of talking to. He has a memoir out called Acting My Face. He definitely

knows that he has been the bad guy in many, many films because of that terrific mug of his.

So let's go ahead, play this interview. I apologize.

There were some technical difficulties around the way.

Mr. James was a very good sport about it.

Thank goodness for that.

And I hope that you enjoy this interview with him.

This wasn't your first book.

You've written books before, or it was kind of like a book slash art project, correct?

Yes, no, I haven't written any books before.

What you're referring to is an art book that came out about 20 years ago

that was published by a house in Boston, as a matter of fact,

before I had even considered moving here and

it was they did a wonderful job uh it it contained the earliest of my abstract paintings and also the

earliest of my poetry which are really from the 70s and then they had asked me to write a text

so i didn't really want to write a text so so I try to make it as spare as possible.

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