![]() Toback hung around with Beatty, for whom he wrote the screenplay for Bugsy, perhaps the only movie he was directly involved in that was generally successful. ![]() ![]() Ever since I was a college student, I’ve been reading film critics explain that while, on paper, James Toback might sound like a total putz, if you had hung out with him like yours truly had, you too would realize he was a genius with important insights into how the rules of society are just a facade. Toback has been an annoying figure on the fringes of my magazine-reading consciousness since the 1970s. I’m not sure why this is considered breaking news, since Toback has been notorious for hitting on hundreds of pretty girls walking down the street every week with his “I’m film director James Toback, I want you for my new movie” line for decades. In the search to expose The Next Harvey Weinstein, the Los Angeles Times goes for the most obvious low-hanging fruit this side of Warren Beatty: Beatty’s buddy James Toback, the elderly writer-director-public nuisance:ģ8 women have come forward to accuse director James Toback of sexual harassment James Toback: Triggered by Toback’s picture in the news, JPod will soon tweet about how you can tell Christopher Nolan is an anti-Semite just by looking at his filthy physiognomy
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