Stephen Tobolowsky

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

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

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Tobolowsky is one of the most recognizable men on earth, now appearing in two first-rate TV shows, Silicon Valley and One Day at a Time...but he's also an author, podcaster, and consummate storyteller. He even made a successful concert movie using Kickstarter funds this year. Leonard and Jessie talk with him about his indelible role in Ground Hog Day, his unusual connection with David Byrne and the Talking Heads, the perils of actors' auditions, and much, much more.

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0:00.0	Now Enteringnerdist.com.
0:10.0	Hi, everybody. I'm Leonard Malton.
0:11.9	And I'm Jesse Malton.
0:12.9	You are listening to Malton on movies.
0:15.2	Our guest today, how to begin to introduce or disproved.
0:19.2	Have you ever turned on your TV ever? Yeah. I think that's the closest. Have you
0:23.5	ever turned on a television set? Have you ever been sitting in a room that had a television set in it?
0:29.2	Right. Or strolled into a movie theater. Or yeah. Yeah. Lately, though, I would say television
0:34.5	would be the dominant medium.
0:40.0	Perhaps you listen to really good podcasts.
0:47.7	If any of those things are true, you should know, and you do know, our guest, Stephen Tubalowski.
0:48.7	Hello.
0:50.3	So good to meet you.
0:52.3	Now, why is it, Stephen, that with the hundreds of credits you have and the many media in which you function,
0:59.2	when someone says your name to me, other than the fact that we're friends, the first thing I think of is Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day.
1:07.2	After all these years.
1:08.9	It's, it turned out to be a classic.
1:11.2	You know, you never know what you do that will endure through time.
1:16.4	Yeah.
1:16.8	You know, usually you, as actors, we usually think that the really disastrous films we do are the ones that we're going to be known for.
1:24.7	That will, you know, like Dr. Jekyll-Miss Hyde.
1:27.4	Oh, well. Well, well. I'll be known for, that will, you know, like Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, I'll be known for that one.
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