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Timing in life is everything.

Leonard Maltin

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Leonard Maltin
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 18
Film Critic
Film Historian
Film Producer
Journalist
Podcaster
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Leonard Michael Maltin
Timing
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Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse... by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who aren’t necessarily plugged into comic strip history... I have a feeling that this book, crafted with such obvious care, will earn Gottfredson a new legion of admirers.
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I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
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You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.
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Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.
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Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
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Audiences deserve better.
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If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.
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Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
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I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
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I'm a lifelong Disney nut.
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I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
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Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.
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Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
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Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.
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With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'
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Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
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I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
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Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
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