Jill Clayburgh, R.I.P.
It was awful to hear about the cancer death of Jill Clayburgh at her home in Lakeville, Ct. Friday night. She was a great actress on screen and stage, and one of the most charming show people you could...
View Article‘Barney’s Version’: trying to get a good novel right
Mordecai Richler was considered a national treasure in Canada for much of his life — he died in 2001 at the age of 70 — but moviemakers haven’t done very well by his novels. Although Richler himself...
View ArticleRent it now: The original ‘Heartbreak Kid’
Successful remakes have a way of getting in the way of the original — “An Affair to Remember” is much more popular than “Love Affair” — but if there’s any justice, the 2007 Farrelly brothers version of...
View ArticleLincoln Center Film Society celebrates ‘Hollywood’s Jew Wave’
Among the many movie revolutions of the 1960s was the way that the Hollywood studios finally allowed Jewish actors to embrace their ethnicity and Jewish writers and directors to explore their culture....
View Article‘Perils of Show Business’: Charles Grodin explains it all for you
You don’t have to be an aspiring actor to enjoy the new DVD “The Perils of Show Business” (Limelight Editions) in which Charles Grodin talks about his experiences progressing from useless acting...
View Article‘Hello Ladies’: abrasive but very funny
A 2013 HBO season series that never clicked, “Hello Ladies” has just been released on DVD by HBO Video. The big comedy hits on HBO tend to feature characters you might want to spend time with in real...
View Article‘While We’re Young’: a 1970s style social comedy
If you miss the sharply satirical comedies that Paul Mazursky made during the 1970s you should check out “While We’re Young,” which was recently added to Amazon Video and Netflix. The Noah Baumback...
View ArticleWhen we were ‘Seduced by Mrs. Robinson’
Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Mike Nichols film “The Graduate.” The movie came at the very end of what would prove to be a revolutionary year in the history of Hollywood....
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