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Toback’s admirers may be able to reconstruct the initial concept by reference to the director’s previous films: perhaps Jack Jericho was a university lecturer along the lines of James Caan’s Axel Freed in The Gambler (US 1974, directed by Karel Reisz from Toback’s screenplay) or Toback himself in Exposed, though the casting of Downey ...
Oct 22, 2017 · Maria Laura Antonelli/REX/Shutte. Oscar-nominated writer-director James Toback has been accused of sexually harassing at least 38 women stemming back to the 1980s. A Los Angeles Times report ...
Dec 8, 2023 · James Lee Toback (born November 23, 1944) is an American screenwriter and film director, as well as author, and essayist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1991 for Bugsy. Toback was born in New York City. His mother, Selma Judith (ne Levy), was a president of T
Dec 20, 1991 · The son of a New York stockbroker, Toback made a precarious living teaching, gambling, and writing groundbreaking sports pieces (including a 1971 biography of his friend, football’s Jim Brown).
Sep 2, 2017 · It’s a question the film often seems to be asking about itself. “The Private Life of a Modern Woman” is a cinematic crazy-quilt: part thriller, part confessional, part wacked family exposé ...
May 5, 2009 · These are things James Toback reveals in his new documentary " Tyson ," which presents the heavyweight champion in a new light. This is the man who knocked out his opponents in his first 19 pro fights, 12 of them in the first round. "I think he has never escaped from the sense that he is a short, fat, pushed-around kid and that everyone is ...
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 ...
