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Starstruck

My Unlikely Road to Hollywood

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Starstruck

By: Leonard Maltin
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Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites listeners to pull up a chair as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, from 50-plus years of interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists.

Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and the 1930s and ’40s movies hitting the small screen. His fan letters to admired performers led to unexpected correspondences, then to interviews and the publication of his own fan magazine. Maltin’s career as a freelance writer and New York Times best-selling author, as well as his 30-year run on Entertainment Tonight, gave him access to Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Shirley Temple, and Jimmy Stewart, among hundreds of other Golden Age stars, his interviews cutting through the Hollywood veneer and revealing the human behind each legend.

Starstruck also offers a fascinating glimpse inside the Disney empire, and Maltin’s tenure teaching USC’s popular film course reveals insights into moviemaking along with access to past, current, and future stars of film, such as George Lucas, Kevin Feige, Quentin Tarantino, and Guillermo del Toro.

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Absolutely fantastic! Maltin's stories are captivating and his performance takes you where he goes. 10/10!

Fantastic!

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A great audio book by a great film critic I have admired for many years

amazing

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Apart from the great stories (many about more obscure figures from Hollywood's past), Maltin's vibe is just so congenial. Clearly a pleasant man happy with a grateful for his life, and that's really a balm in these days.

Terrific

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Overall, this is okay. I know Leonard through his work with Disney. I loved reading his anecdotes on some of my favorites like: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis. The last half is better. Some of his early chapters can get better and at time it reads like a newspaper column which is understandable given Matlin's experience. But I did enjoy reading about his teaching at USC and interviews he's conducted with some real heavy hitters.

At the same time, I wanted more! Could this book have a second volume? I think yes! Leonard Matlin is clearly a well of so many Hollywood stories with the best that ever walked earth and graced the Silver Screen!

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You may know him from :0 years on Entertainment Tonight or from his excellent guides to movies and wonderful boos on animation, radio , jazz, Disney and much more. For the first time in this autobiographical book he shows that he is much more as a critic , historian, celebrity interviewer and as a person or in the Jewish parlance, a real mensch. He shares his own improbable rise and with warmth and wit insightful stories about numerous stars from Brad Pitt to Jimmy Stewart to Buster Keaton and many others. He is nice but still honest and a lovely storyteller. For movie lovers of all ages this is a treasure chest filled with memories of himself, his loving family and friends and most importantly the stars and artists who have delighted movie lovers for generations.

Leonard Maltin is a treasure that he shares in this book

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