Larry Cohen is a genius because he managed to have the best of both worlds in the entertainment industry. Not many can claim to have enjoyed both a traditionally successful career within the mainstream Hollywood system as well as cult status outside the studio system making audaciously independent films exactly the way he wanted to. Now he is the subject of Steve Mitchell's documentary "King Cohen." I speak with Cohen about his career and Mitchell about the new doc.

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