James Toback

Birth Name:

James Toback

Birth Place:

New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Writer, Director, Actor, Producer, Script department

The Monday Playlist: Hostages Goes Crazy, HBO's Cannes-Do Attitude

Simplicity can be a helpful thing for an effective thriller — and that, sadly, is an attribute CBS's overwrought, underwatched Hostages (Monday, 10/9c) lacks altogether. The more complications this show introduces, the sillier it threatens to become. It's hard to imagine a subplot of less interest than the money problems of foxy hostage-taker Sandrine ...

Mon, Oct 28, 2013

The Monday Playlist: Hostages Goes Crazy, HBO's Cannes-Do Attitude

Exclusive: Alec Baldwin Sounds Off On Hollywood

In the HBO documentary Seduced and Abandoned (debuting Oct. 28), Alec Baldwin travels to the Cannes Film Festival with director James Toback to pitch an Iraq-set romance and is repeatedly told he can receive only a limited budget because he's now considered a TV star, not a movie star. So does he regret his seven seasons on 30 Rock?

Mon, Sep 30, 2013