🎭 Culture Sep 8, 2026 · Michael O'Donnell

Finding Marty

The American Scholar
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Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese’s Life in Film by Mark Binelli; Metropolitan Books, 544 pp., $35.99
In 1977, Martin Scorsese was working in a cocaine-filled, insomniac frenzy to complete The Last Waltz, his film about The Band’s final concert. One evening, he and his housemate, the group’s guitarist, Robbie Robertson, invited friends to watch a rough cut. Francis Ford Coppola, one of the guests, disliked what he saw—not about the film but about what the boys were eating. Coppola decided to coo

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