Actor-producer-director Bob Balaban — whose family still has a restaurant in the central west end section of St. Louis — was on my show today and we discussed his work on such well-known movies as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Absence of Malice,” “Waiting For Guffman,” “Best In Show,” and “Gosford Park” (which he produced and Robert Altman won a Golden Globe for directing).

Listen to our conversation here.