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After four decades in Hollywood, the author—a director, screenwriter, actor, and producer—has learned that you can’t: (a) stay mad at Robert Downey Jr., (b) go wrong with Robert De Niro, or (c)...
In 1962, James Toback, a student at Harvard at the time took the single largest dose of LSD ever recorded. He was at a party. Back in the early 60s they had barely any knowledge of dosages. So at this party was a bowl of sugar cubes, each one drenched in 1000ugs of pure LSD.
Screenwriter and movie-maker JAMES TOBACK insists he's lucky to be alive after an eight-day LSD marathon left walking around with a loaded gun - planning to kill himself.
At 57, James Toback is clean, sober and married. But the legendary Hollywood womanizer and gambler still bets his life on every new movie (and talks to strangers in Central Park).
"Harvard Man" is the movie James Toback always wanted to make about his 1965 flip-out on LSD, a trip that lasted eight days. The movie feels like nine. A rambling, unconvincing sprawl at...
James Lee Toback (/ ˈ t uː b æ k /, born November 23, 1944) is an American screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1991 for Bugsy. He has directed films including The Pick-up Artist, Two Girls and a Guy and Black and White.
Buried under the gangster bravado and the avant-gardist's disdain for narrative coherence and dramatic effect that are the hallmarks of Mr. Toback's style is an earnest coming-of-age story,...
