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Father: Lionel Toback Mother: Selma Levy Wife: Consuelo Sarah Churchill Vanderbilt Russell (m. 26-Apr-1968, div.) High School: The Fieldston School (1963) University: Harvard University (1966) Teacher: Creative Writing, City College of New York. Risk Factors: Gambling, LSD FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR Tyson (May-2008) When Will I Be Loved (6-Jun-2004)
- November 23, 1944
James Toback. Writer: Bugsy. James Toback, screenwriter and the director of nine films, was born on November 23, 1944 in New York City to a successful garment manufacturer. A 1966 graduate of Harvard College, Toback later taught creative writing at City College of New York in the early 1970s. He suffered from a gambling compulsion that still plagues him, which was the subject of his ...
Aug 1, 2001 · Inspired in part by an eight-day LSD trip Toback had in the mid-'60s, the film opens with a frenzied statement of purpose, colliding split-screen images of raucous sex and basketball warm-ups with ...
Apr 5, 2000 · Black and White. Brooke Shields and Robert Downey Jr. in "Black and White." Like James Toback himself, his new film is in your face, overflowing with ideas, outrageous in its connections, maddening, illogical and fascinating. Also like its author, it is never boring. Toback is the brilliant wild child of indie cinema, now a wild man in his 50s ...
Oct 23, 2017 · Updated 10:39 PM PDT, October 22, 2017. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Writer and director James Toback, who received an Oscar nomination for writing “Bugsy,” has been accused of sexual harassment by 38 women in a report published Sunday in The Los Angeles Times. In the report, many of the women allege that Toback approached them on the streets of ...
Sep 29, 2013 · Alec sits down with writer and director James Toback who makes movies on his own terms. His films include The Gambler, The Pick-up Artist, Love & Money, Black and White.
Feb 14, 2023 · Forty women made sweeping allegations of sexual assault in a lawsuit against James L. Toback ’66 and the Harvard Club of New York City late last year, alleging Toback repeatedly used his ...
