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Jul 11, 1987 · Linson and friend Sean Penn (who vaulted to stardom after appearing in the Linson-produced “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”) exited their limousine and walked into the theater, amid blinding...
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Oct 16, 2008 · From left, Bruce Willis, Robert De Niro, John Turturro and Stanley Tucci in “What Just Happened,” directed by Barry Levinson and written by Art Linson. Credit... Magnolia Pictures
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Full name, Arthur Larry Linson; born March 16, 1942, in Chicago, IL; married second wife, c. 1995; children: John (a producer). Education: University of California, Los Angeles, law degree, 1967; also attended University of California, Berkeley.
Film Producer:
(With Michael Gruskoff) Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (also known as Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers), Warner Bros., 1975. (With Gary Stromberg) Car Wash,Universal, 1976. American Hot Wax,Paramount, 1978. (With Don Phillips) Melvin and Howard,Universal, 1980. Where the Buffalo Roam,Universal, 1980. (With Irving Azoff) Fast Times at Ridgemont High (also known as Fast Times), Universal, 1982. (With Cameron Crowe and Phillips) The Wild Life,Universal, 1984. The Untouchables,Paramount, 1987....
Film Executive Producer:
(With Barrie M. Osborne and Floyd Mutrux) Dick Tracy,Buena Vista, 1990. Singles,Warner Bros., 1992. Lords of Dogtown (also known as American Knights and Dogtown Boys), TriStar, 2005.
Film Director:
Where the Buffalo Roam,Universal, 1980. The Wild Life,Universal, 1984.
Videos:
Himself, The Making of "Casualties of War" (short), Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment, 2001. Himself, The Untouchables: The Classic(short), Paramount Home Video, 2004. Himself, The Untouchables: Re-inventing the Genre(short), Paramount Home Video, 2004. Himself, The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast(short), Paramount Home Video, 2004. Himself, The Making of "Heat," Warner Home Video, 2005.
Video Work:
Still photographer, The Making of "Heat," Warner Home Video, 2005.
Screenplays:
(Story) American Hot Wax,Paramount, 1978. (With Cameron Crowe) The Wild Life,Universal, 1984. (Story) Sunset Strip (also known as Untitled Sunset Strip Project), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000. Wrote the screenplay Cover Me.Provided the stories for other films.
Teleplays; Pilots:
(With William Finkelstein) What Just Happened? (based on his book What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line), HBO, c. 2008.
Nonfiction:
A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Europe,Grove Press, 1993. What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line,Bloomsbury, 2002.
Jul 30, 2008 · Directed by Barry Levinson and starring a bestubbled Robert De Niro as Linson, the film is chock full of real incidents from Linson’s producing life, including the time Alec Baldwin, about to...
Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line, the last of which was made into a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and directed by Barry Levinson. Linson is married to British actress and writer Fiona Lewis .
Art is an award winning producer, author, screenwriter, and director. Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner. Yellowstone premiered on June 20, 2018, on the Paramount Network.
Oct 17, 2008 · Levinson, working from a script by Linson, may be trying to give us a sympathetic, self-deprecating character in Art; he's Candide, bumbling his way through a cruel, incomprehensible universe....