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    Oscar-winning Writer Diablo Cody; Filmmaker James Toback

    Writer Diablo Cody directs a movie but won’t do it again. Plus, filmmaker James Toback goes to Cannes to make one movie and to sell another.

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    By Kim Masters • Oct 19, 2013 • 28m Listen

    Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody (Juno, Young Adult) directs a feature film and finds it not for her. She talks honestly about not wanting to be an ‘authority figure’ and about the stress of balancing directing with mothering. Filmmaker James Toback talks about how and why he made his HBO movie Seduced & Abandoned with Alec Baldwin.

    Banner image: Diablo Cody at KCRW by Larry Hirshowitz

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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