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Martin Charles Scorsese Italian (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker and actor, whose career spans more than 50 years. Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinematic history. Scorsese's body of work explores such themes as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption? faith, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Directors Guild of America Awards.
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'Pretend It's a City': TV Review

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One of Fran Lebowitz's finest stories in Netflix's Pretend It's a City — like Cole Porter songs, Agatha Christie mysteries and Barry Bonds home runs, it's a long list — involves a breakfast she shared with jazz legends Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington.

Interestingly, this is only the second-best Charles Mingus story featured in the show, but the point of the tale is that Lebowitz was struck at that breakfast by how deferential Mingus, a man of impeccable confidence and stature, was in Ellington's presence.

Lebowitz recounts this breakfast across two conversations, one a stage Q&A with Spike Lee and the other a documentary interview with Pretend It's a City director Martin Scorsese and executive producer Ted Griffin.

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