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Following stints as a teacher and a critic, Toback says he finally chose to get his life “back on track” at the age of 27 by writing a screenplay. The Gambler, a semi-autobiographical tale, was eventually made into a movie by director Karel Reisz in 1974. Following Reisz around the set, Toback absorbed filmmaking techniques, and by the end of production, he felt ready to direct his own film...
...Toback, who has since directed seven films, won an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for his writing of the 1991 drama Bugsy...
With Harvard Man on hold, Toback filled the time with two offbeat films, Two Girls and a Guy and Black and White—both “smooth, quick and happy experiences,” he says...
This move placed Toback in a difficult position, because no distribution company would want to release a movie in theaters without DVD and video rights...
...Toback convinced Blockbuster to delay the video release to October 2002. Then he went on what he calls a “guerilla distribution tour...