INTERVIEW: Tim Davies, Conductor of LA LA LAND
By Greg Ehrbar Tim Davies doesn’t believe in a narrow focus in music. He can turn with ease from 90-piece orchestras and big bands to rap and hip-hop. As a conductor, arranger and orchestrator, we’ve heard Tim’s work in…
Maltin On Movies: Our 100th Episode!
It’s crazy to think that we’ve recorded 100 episodes of our Maltin On Movies podcast, and what better way to celebrate it than speaking to the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Richard M. Sherman. He is magic, grace and happiness personified, never giving…
THE AMAZING STAN LEE
An assignment from Parade magazine, the popular Sunday newspaper supplement, enabled me to spend some quality time with Stan Lee. I learned long ago that he’s a diehard movie buff so I knew we’d have fun chatting. More importantly, he…
REMEMBERING GLORIA DeHAVEN
I was saddened to hear of Gloria DeHaven’s passing this week, because I had a small connection with the performer that meant a lot to me. When I was 18 years old I got to interview her for my…
REMEMBERING JANET WALDO
When Janet Waldo passed away on June 12, at the age of 96, most of the obituaries spotlighted the fact that she was the voice of Judy Jetson on the long-running Hanna-Barbera animated series The Jetsons. But that was…
Remembering Joan Leslie
I was saddened to hear of Joan Leslie’s death earlier this week at the age of 90. She was one of my favorite interviews in recent years. She was incredibly nice, yet at the same time she belied her…
Joe Dante and John Landis Remember Christopher Lee
JOE DANTE on CHRISTOPHER LEE LM: What was your first impression of Christopher Lee, and what struck you about him? DANTE: Well, the first Christopher Lee movie I ever saw, before which I was unaware of his existence, was…
