They say that everybody has two professions: whatever they do for a living, plus being a film critic. For sixty years, Leonard Maltin has happily combined both. Starting when he was 13, Maltin turned a childhood love of movies into a career as a film historian, writer, interviewer, teacher, and one of the country’s most visible and beloved movie reviewers. This book grew out of a fifty-year friendship between Maltin and interviewer Nat Segaloff. Exclusively for this book, the pair held a series of discussions covering Maltin’s life, his philosophy of reviewing, his passionate love of film, and his many behind-the-scenes Hollywood adventures. The result is a freewheeling and thoroughly involving exchange about the state of movies past, present and future.

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