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BPS 307: How I Wrote Birdman with Oscar® Winner Alexander Dinelaris

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How and Why I Wanted to Get Into the Insane Industry

"I grew up in this tiny little town called East Rockaway Long Island. And I had a movie theater across the street from me, one of those big old movie there's called The Criterion," he said. "And that's when I fell in love with movies like Kramer versus Kramer and great Santini on justice for all." He says his manager was Johnny Planko who handled a very famous call-in to Peter O'Toole but also worked with Anthony Quinn, Paul Schrader and Danny Glover.

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