TCM host Ben Mankiewicz loves Buffalo - and wants more movies set here
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Ben Mankiewicz is from Washington, D.C.. He lives in Los Angeles, and does a lot of work in Atlanta. Mankiewicz is a big-city guy, but a big-city guy who has a big passion for smaller cities.
Cities like Buffalo.
Good thing, because Mankiewicz is coming here this week. The television host of Turner Classic Movies will be in town Oct. 21 for a TCM Backlot event featuring "The Natural" and its director, Barry Levinson. The 1984 Robert Redford baseball movie, which was shot in Buffalo, will be shown at 7 p.m. at the North Park Theatre (1428 Hertel Ave.). (The event is free, but tickets are gone.)
"I if I were from Buffalo, I would never tell people I was from New York," Mankiewicz said during a telephone interview last week from Atlanta, where he was shooting for TCM. "I would never try and get around it. I would literally be like, 'I'm Ben Mankiewicz. How are you doing? I'm from Buffalo.'"