Steve Lopez Interviewed by Bill Newcott About "The Soloist" Movies & TV

Writer Steve Lopez and the Friendship That Changed his Life

How a Chance Encounter Changed Two Lives

Journalist Steve Lopez tells "Movies for Grownups" host Bill Newcott about meeting a homeless musician, who had been a young and gifted student at The Juilliard School in New York, before losing his way. Lopez's L.A. Times columns became a book, which is now a film starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. For more, listen to Mike Cuthbert's interview with Steve Lopez about the book , where there's also a link to the film's home page.

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