Leonard Maltin + Helen Walsh

Published: Dec. 5, 2021, noon

On this week\u2019s Richard Crouse Show Podcast we get to know legendary film critic Leonard Maltin. His new book \u201cStarstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood,\u201d is on shelves now and details his 30-year run on Entertainment Tonight, his interviews with golden age of Hollywood elites like Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Shirley Temple, and Jimmy Stewart and insights into moviemaking with stories from the past, present, and future stars of film, like George Lucas, Kevin Feige of Marvel, Quentin Tarantino, and Guillermo del Toro.\n\nThen, Helen Walsh, author of "Pull Focus: A Novel," a book that has been described as \u201cPart Real Housewives, part grown-up Nancy Drew,\u201d stops by. Set within the inner workings of an international film festival, the novel details Hollywood power brokers, Russian oil speculators, Chinese propagandists, and a board chair who seemingly has it out for Jane, the book\u2019s main character.