In this day and age, a return to radio might not seem the way to go, but Julian Schlossberg sees it different. He’s genuinely thrilled to be making his radio comeback—or at least his audio comeback, on not one but two podcasts.
Schlossberg—a producer of both Broadway shows (Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical) and films (Orson Welles’ Othello)—was on New York radio for eight years as the host of Julian Schlossberg’s Movie Talk. The show ran WMCA from 1974 to 1980, with Schlossberg playing The One Who Knows All for inquiring minds from eight to midnight. In 1991, Movie Talk returned for a year on WOR, but at just an hour it didn’t offer Schossberg the same enjoyment. “But now,” he tells Observer, “I’m dying to do it again,”
When it comes to talking movies, Julian Schlossberg knows his stuff. In his heyday as a movie distributor, he was the king of Castle Hill Productions. How many times have you seen that lighthouse throw its calming light over choppy waters before a Schossberg film begins? Castle Hill distributed........