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Interview: Johnny Mandel (Part 1)

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Marc Myers
Oct 20, 2008
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Nothing stops Johnny Mandel. As a composer, Johnny has written dozens of pop and jazz standards, including the blockbusters Emily, Suicide is Painless, The Shining Sea, A Time for Love and The Shadow of Your Smile, for which he won an Oscar and a Grammy in 1965. Johnny has scored 36 films, including I Want to Live, The Verdict and Being There. As an alb…

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