James Toback

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Toback credits actress and friend Lucy Saroyan, his literary agent Lynn Nesbit, and Nesbit's contact in film Mike Medavoy with getting his first film script The Gambler to director Karel Reisz and then to Paramount Pictures. For a year, Toback attached himself to Reisz "as his acolyte" in "the perfect mentor-protegé relationship," and he later described Reisz, who also directed Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The French Lieutenant's Woman, as "my one-man film school."The Gambler opened in theaters in 1974.

Toback's directorial début was the 1978 film Fingers, with Harvey Keitel cast in the lead role of Jimmy "Fingers" Angelelli. In her review of Fingers, influential New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael celebrated Toback's "true moviemaking fever." Toback followed Fingers with Love and Money in 1982. He wrote and directed Exposed in 1983, The Pick-up Artist in 1987, and the documentary The Big Bang in 1989. Bugsy released two years later, with Toback's screenplay winning an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay.

In the three decades since Bugsy Toback has directed seven more films, including his prize-winning Tyson. He wrote the screenplays for all seven. Over his career, Toback's film direction has ranged from the large-scale and spectacular Exposed to the small-scale and single-setting Two Girls and a Guy, one of three Toback films that cast Robert Downey Jr in a featured role. The Oldenburg International Film Festival selected Toback and his work for its 2008 "Retrospective." Other directors have since re-made two Toback films: The Beat That My Heart Skipped, a re-make of Fingers, in 2005, and Rupert Wyatt's re-make of The Gambler in 2014.

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