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What Just Happened: Directed by Barry Levinson. With Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Bruce Willis. Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.
- Barry Levinson
- 3 min
Jul 11, 1987 · On June 2, producer Art Linson arrived at New York's Astor Plaza Theater for the world premiere of "The Untouchables," his latest project.
- DEBORAH CAULFIELD
- Personal
- Credits
- Recordings
- Writings
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.
Life and career. Art Linson has produced movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Into the Wild, and Melvin and Howard . Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner.
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.
Jul 30, 2008 · He’s not just the writer-producer, but cast it with old pals like De Niro (Linson produced him in ‘Heat’) and Sean Penn (Linson produced Penn’s ‘Into the Wild’), who plays, well, himself.
Jun 21, 2005 · Many of Art’s pals, in particular Mamet, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn and De Palma, are famously prickly perfectionists. Asked how he managed to get along so well with such difficult types, he laughed.
