A return to radio may seem like the wrong way to go in this day and age, but Julian Schlossberg thinks otherwise. He's absolutely delighted to be back on the radio, or at least his voice return on not one, but his two podcasts.
Schlossberg – Producer of both Broadway shows (Bullet Over Broadway: The Musical) and movies (Orson Welles' Othello) — appeared as a host on New York radio for eight years. Julian Schlossberg movie talk. The show aired on WMCA from 1974 until 1980, when Schlossberg played “The Know-It-All” as a mind-searcher from 8 to midnight. In 1991, movie talk Returning for a year with WOR, but only for an hour, Schosburg could not provide the same enjoyment. “But now,” he says, observer“I want to do it again.”
When it comes to talkie movies, Julian Schlossberg knows his stuff. In its heyday as a film distributor, he was the king of Castle Hill Productions. How many times had we seen a lighthouse cast its gentle light over a choppy sea before Schossberg's film began?The Castle He Hill was a classic film by Elia Kazan, John Cassavetes, Woody Allen and Fellini, Buñuel's Distributed foreign films.
Schlossberg returned to the microphone after publishing an audiobook of his memoir last year. Try not to resist me: The life of a producer. Audiobook company Audivita liked his voice and asked him to appear on their podcast. hollywoodland story Along with two other Tinseltown veterans, Arthur Friedman and Steve Rubin. “I said, 'Well, let me think about it,'” Schlossberg recalls. “I didn't think about it too long. I told them, 'Yes, that's right.' I want to. ”
hollywoodland story It was released last year. The trio is a true living history of film and television, with experience in everything from Academy Award winners to exploitation films, and they talk about everything from Milton Berle (“Before television, he was… (He was making $25,000 a play in New York theaters in the 1930s – that's how big a star he was) for Tarantino.
What was revived this year is Julian Schlossberg movie talk, where Schlossberg speaks one-on-one with guests including F. Murray Abraham, David Mamet, and Marlo Thomas (“I think of her as my little sister and my best friend for a long time,'' Schlossberg says). As they say, wherever you get your podcasts, it's available. “Spotify, Apple, iHeart, Amazon. We're in all of those places,” Schlossberg says. “Please connect.”
The concept is simple. A thorough discussion of a career worth discussing. “The most important part is the interview itself, who you're talking to and how in-depth you want it to be,” he argues. “A lot of people can't do that with radio or TV. They only exist to connect movies and books. I'm trying to do what I did with radio many years ago, which is go beyond that. That’s what I’m trying to do.”
He continues: “We started with F. Murray Abraham. Then we did two shows with Richard Benjamin because he had such a rich career and so much we wanted to talk about.” Upcoming guests include Martin Sheen. “I'm very excited about it. Isabella Rossellini did the show once and she'll be back again.”
Last month, Schlossberg was a guest host on Turner Classic Movies, where he interviewed actress Elaine May, who produces all of his plays and is a friend of more than 50 years. Four films she directed (Ishtar ) were broadcast between chats. “I was introduced to him by Ben Mankiewicz, and he did a great job,” Schlossberg reports. “I just recorded him for a podcast.”
He currently has a slew of projects, including recording the audio version of his second book. “That's what it's called my first book, part 2,” he says.
“I have a pretty worldly life now, doing two podcasts every week, doing interviews, being interviewed by other people, writing and recording books,” he said. say. He enjoys his busy schedule, thank you very much. “It was really fun, I didn't make any money, but I was super busy. I see a lot of my friends idling away because they can't work. They don't seem to want to do that. , that's what I want to do. I want to keep working hard. That's what keeps me going.”
