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Bob Downey

Downey Talks

By Irish America Staff
March / April 2019

March 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Bob Downey talks to Glenn Kenny about his work after a showing of Putney Swope at Waterside Plaza NYC.

Nowadays people think of Bob Downey as actor Robert Downey, Jr.’s father, but back in the ’60s and ’70s he was celebrated for his avant-garde movies – most notably, his 1969 satire Putney Swope, a send-up of both Madison Avenue and American race relations. After a screening of Putney Swope in N.Y.C. recently, Downey sat down with Glenn Kenny, the film critic and journalist, to … [Read more...] about Downey Talks

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