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...twirling, stammering twenty-something is subjected to a lot of blank stares, subtle glances at the nearest clock and terse, rehearsed responses. My most recent experience, with the famed indie bad-boy writer/director James Toback ’66, was decidedly against the norm. Of course, anyone versed in Toback??€™s impressive body of work, which includes the recently released con-game drama, When Will I Be Loved, knows that he is, too. Before I could lay down one of my admittedly redundant inquiries, Toback drilled me on my own career goals, my life...
Gellar, playing a mob daughter/ BC cheerleader, gets Granier, the star of the Harvard Basketball team, involved in sports betting connected to her father’s shady business. The dangerous drug use is based on Toback??€™s own experience...
Last Friday’s event was not Toback??€™s first return to Harvard. His film Harvard Man (2001), a semi-autobiographical reenactment of Toback??€™s life-changing experiments with LSD during his undergraduate years, was filmed on location in Cambridge. And Toback was a key speaker in a conference sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies after the 1999 release of his film Black and White, which explored the popularity of hip-hop music in white suburbia...
...Toback??€™s next project is Russian Girl, which will be filmed in June...
...Toback??€”James—you’re sitting on a gold mine here. Have your people call my people—and by my people, I mean me. I’m in the directory...