{"id":134489,"date":"2024-12-16T02:47:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T02:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/billy-crystal-says-martin-scorsese-was-scary-when-he-taught-at-nyu\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T02:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T02:47:18","slug":"billy-crystal-says-martin-scorsese-was-scary-when-he-taught-at-nyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/billy-crystal-says-martin-scorsese-was-scary-when-he-taught-at-nyu\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Crystal Says Martin Scorsese Was &#8216;Scary&#8217; When He Taught at NYU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/billy-crystal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-crystal\" data-tag=\"billy-crystal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Crystal<\/a> is pondering again on his childhood in <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/martin-scorsese\/\" id=\"auto-tag_martin-scorsese\" data-tag=\"martin-scorsese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Scorsese<\/a>\u2019s classroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn the Dec. 15 episode of the \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sunday-sitdown-with-willie-geist\/id1370507232\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sunday-sitdown-with-willie-geist\/id1370507232\">Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist<\/a>\u201d podcast, Crystal talked about his time being taught by Scorsese at <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/new-york-university\/\" id=\"auto-tag_new-york-university\" data-tag=\"new-york-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHe was a graduate student at the time, just doing his first movie, called \u2018Who\u2019s That Knocking at My Door.\u2019 And it was 1968, 1969, 1970,\u201d Crystal remarked on the podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCrystal went on to explain Scorsese\u2019s seems: \u201c[He] had a big beard and granny glasses and hair down to his shoulders. He looked like everybody. He\u2019d stand behind you while you were editing your film and he would be very scary, because he would look and he was so intense and he would speak very quickly \u2014 even then \u2014 he spoke quicker then because he was, you know, 50 years younger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tScorsese would reference Howard Hawks all the time utilizing large photographs in his movies as a response to what his college students had been taking pictures. But whereas many years have handed since Crystal first crossed paths with Scorsese, he says Scorsese nonetheless retains the identical vitality and spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs a pupil within the Nineteen Sixties, Crystal additionally realized throughout the counterculture motion because it took over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c[The West Village] was wild,\u201d Crystal added. \u201cIt was a terrible time for America, but a great time at the same time. \u2018Cause all of that adversity and all of the protesting against the Vietnam War. It brought us together \u2026 What came out of it was a renaissance in music, in poetry, in art \u2014 that we\u2019re still feeling today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Billy Crystal is pondering again on his childhood in Martin Scorsese\u2019s classroom. On the Dec. 15 episode of the \u201cSunday Sitdown with Willie Geist\u201d podcast, Crystal talked about his time being taught by Scorsese at New York University. \u201cHe was a graduate student at the time, just doing his first movie, called \u2018Who\u2019s That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[932,1495,2089,6950,1815,4549,5759],"class_list":{"0":"post-134489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-billy","9":"tag-crystal","10":"tag-martin","11":"tag-nyu","12":"tag-scary","13":"tag-scorsese","14":"tag-taught"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}