1.18 Author Interview with Nat Segaloff

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In this author interview, I speak with Nat Segaloff is a writer, broadcaster, teacher, film historian, and raconteur with a varied background in motion picture publicity, journalism, producing, and covering up other people's mistakes. Having begun his career during the exciting transition between the old studios and the film generation of the New Hollywood, he provides both perspective and commentary on a wide range of subjects, many of them having to do with movies. He joins me today to talk about his upcoming book, Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Century of Scarface.
Listen to hear how the original Scarface film was impacted by the beginning of the production code, and why people gravitate to characters like Tony Montana in film.
Books mentioned in this episode include:

• Scarface by Armitage Trail
• Scarface Nation: The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed America by Ken Tucker
• The Exorcist Legacy by Nat Segaloff
• Which Way to Mecca, Jack? From Brooklyn to Beirut: the Adventures of an American Sheik by William Peter Blatty
• I'll tell them I remember you by William Peter Blatty
• John Goldfarb, Please Come Home by William Peter Blatty
• In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry III

Films mentioned in this episode include:

• Scarface (1983) directed by Brian DiPalma
• Scarface (1932) directed by Howard Hawks
• The Public Enemy directed by William A. Wellman
• Little Caesar directed by Mervyn LeRoy
• Angels with Dirty Faces directed by Michael Curtiz
• Bonnie and Clyde directed by Arthur Penn
• The Godfather directed by Francis Ford Coppola
• Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles
• Bringing up Baby directed by Howard Hawks
• His Girl Friday directed by Howard Hawks
• Some Like it Hot directed by Billy Wilder
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes directed by Billy Wilder

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Scarface video game