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James Toback
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FROM James Toback
The Business
Seduced & Abandoned Filmmaker James Toback talks with Kim about how and why he made his movie Seduced & Abandoned with Alec Baldwin. Punctuated by clips from the movie—which will air on HBO October 28th—Toback tells Kim that he and Baldwin traveled to the Cannes Film Festival in hopes of finding financing for a film but also to give a sense of the people and the conversations that happen there. Ryan Gosling is a highlight.
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