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Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother

Barry Sonnenfeld, legendary cinematographer and director, does more than recall Hollywood vignettes in this funny, wry and thoroughly entertaining memoir.

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Review of ‘Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother’

In 1970, a few weeks before he turned 17, Barry Sonnenfeld was at the Winter Festival for Peace concert at Madison Square Garden. It was after 2 a.m., the latest the teen had ever been out. Jimi Hendrix was warming up, and the audience buzzed in anticipation. “We were about to witness history,” recalls Sonnenfeld.…

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