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Leonard Maltin [1950-0] American

Rank: 103
Critic, Film critic

Leonard Michael Maltin is an American film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.

Christmas, Funny

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I'm a lifelong Disney nut.		101
While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.		102
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.	Funny	103
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.	Christmas	104
Quality survives.		105
Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.		106
The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.		107
Timing in life is everything.		108
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.		109
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.	Christmas	110
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.		111
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.		112
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.		113
If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.		114
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.		115
Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.		116
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.		117
Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.		118
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.		119
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.		120
I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.		121
Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.		122
Audiences deserve better.		123

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