In the past four decades, David E. Kelley has written scripts for an astonishing 33 different performers to win Emmy Awards. Since a few of these actors and actresses have taken multiple trophies, the actual total number of victories is 41.
Will Elizabeth Olsen from “Love and Death” become the 34th Emmy champ in September? It could be the former “Avengers” star as Best Drama Actress or supporting players Lily Rabe, Patrick Fugit, Tom Pelphrey and/or Jesse Plemons.
SEELesli Linka Glatter interview: ‘Love and Death’ director and executive producer
Kelley is an 11-time Emmy winner himself for producing and writing. His television career began with “L.A. Law” and continued with “Picket Fences,” “Chicago Hope,” “The Practice,” “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Legal” and “Big Little Lies.” He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2014.
Here is a summary of the previous Kelley wins in actor and actress categories:
David E. Kelley...
Will Elizabeth Olsen from “Love and Death” become the 34th Emmy champ in September? It could be the former “Avengers” star as Best Drama Actress or supporting players Lily Rabe, Patrick Fugit, Tom Pelphrey and/or Jesse Plemons.
SEELesli Linka Glatter interview: ‘Love and Death’ director and executive producer
Kelley is an 11-time Emmy winner himself for producing and writing. His television career began with “L.A. Law” and continued with “Picket Fences,” “Chicago Hope,” “The Practice,” “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Legal” and “Big Little Lies.” He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2014.
Here is a summary of the previous Kelley wins in actor and actress categories:
David E. Kelley...
- 6/7/2023
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
It was a night of firsts, lasts and an upset win as TV’s finest gathered together to celebrate the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards on ABC on September 19, 1993. Even the host made history — in more ways than one. Read on for our Emmys flashback 30 years ago to 1993.
For the first time ever, the ceremony was hosted solely by a female — who was also, ironically, the unluckiest actress in Emmy history. Up for her 13th Emmy nomination that evening, Angela Lansbury guided the ceremony with her usual grace. Lansbury passed away in 2022, with the record of most Best Drama Actress bids as well as the record for most overall nominations without a win at 18. However, she wasn’t the only one nominated at this ceremony who has never won despite numerous nominations, or the only one to lay claim to an unfortunate record.
After a stellar year in 1992, reigning Best Drama...
For the first time ever, the ceremony was hosted solely by a female — who was also, ironically, the unluckiest actress in Emmy history. Up for her 13th Emmy nomination that evening, Angela Lansbury guided the ceremony with her usual grace. Lansbury passed away in 2022, with the record of most Best Drama Actress bids as well as the record for most overall nominations without a win at 18. However, she wasn’t the only one nominated at this ceremony who has never won despite numerous nominations, or the only one to lay claim to an unfortunate record.
After a stellar year in 1992, reigning Best Drama...
- 5/3/2023
- by Susan Pennington
- Gold Derby
The first season of “Severance,” which originally streamed from February to April on Apple TV+, proved quite popular with Emmy voters this year. The show reaped 14 nominations in the primetime drama categories and blazed a trail as the first Apple program to compete for the top honor of Best Drama Series. Of the three male actors recognized for their work on “Severance,” only former Best Comedy Guest Actor champ John Turturro has won an Emmy before. Four decades into his career, he now holds the distinction of having earned TV academy notices for guest, lead, and supporting performances.
Turturro has submitted the seventh episode of “Severance,” entitled “Defiant Jazz,” for Best Drama Supporting Actor consideration. In the installment, his character, Irving Bailiff, and his Lumon Industries coworkers are met with stricter security measures after they begin learning too many of the nondescript company’s dark secrets. When Irving discovers that...
Turturro has submitted the seventh episode of “Severance,” entitled “Defiant Jazz,” for Best Drama Supporting Actor consideration. In the installment, his character, Irving Bailiff, and his Lumon Industries coworkers are met with stricter security measures after they begin learning too many of the nondescript company’s dark secrets. When Irving discovers that...
- 9/6/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Game Day, a basketball comedy-drama from Movie Night Media and Ammo Content, is set to open in limited release this fall.
The film stars Elizabeth Alderfer and Romeo Miller. Lisa Zane, Chris Johnson, Fyvush Finkel, Jerod Haynes and Antoine McKay also star.
The indie is written and directed by John Susman, and features original music by Miller and his dad, Master P. Producers include John Susman and Stuart Wolf through their Movie Night Media production banner.
Game Day tells the story of tech whiz Ricki (Alderfer), who convinces basketball-savvy teen Lucas (Miller) to offer her hoops lessons when her professional and personal life fall apart. Success at her new job hinges on her joining the office basketball team. But with no game, Ricki enlists Lucas’ help in a desperate attempt to save her job.
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The film stars Elizabeth Alderfer and Romeo Miller. Lisa Zane, Chris Johnson, Fyvush Finkel, Jerod Haynes and Antoine McKay also star.
The indie is written and directed by John Susman, and features original music by Miller and his dad, Master P. Producers include John Susman and Stuart Wolf through their Movie Night Media production banner.
Game Day tells the story of tech whiz Ricki (Alderfer), who convinces basketball-savvy teen Lucas (Miller) to offer her hoops lessons when her professional and personal life fall apart. Success at her new job hinges on her joining the office basketball team. But with no game, Ricki enlists Lucas’ help in a desperate attempt to save her job.
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- 9/1/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
This story about “NYPD Blue” and the Emmys first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
When “Game of Thrones” received 32 Emmy nominations for its eighth and final season, the show broke a record that had stood for 25 years and had seemed unassailable for most of that time. The previous record holder was Steven Bochco and David Milch’s “NYPD Blue,” which debuted on ABC in late 1993, shocked some people by bringing profanity and nudity to broadcast television and racked up 27 nominations for its first season, a total it never again came close to achieving.
The series, which followed a group of Manhattan police detectives, dominated the Emmy drama categories at the 1994 Emmys to the point that it landed four of the five nominations in the drama-series directing category and all five in the writing category. (No show has turned that trick since then.
When “Game of Thrones” received 32 Emmy nominations for its eighth and final season, the show broke a record that had stood for 25 years and had seemed unassailable for most of that time. The previous record holder was Steven Bochco and David Milch’s “NYPD Blue,” which debuted on ABC in late 1993, shocked some people by bringing profanity and nudity to broadcast television and racked up 27 nominations for its first season, a total it never again came close to achieving.
The series, which followed a group of Manhattan police detectives, dominated the Emmy drama categories at the 1994 Emmys to the point that it landed four of the five nominations in the drama-series directing category and all five in the writing category. (No show has turned that trick since then.
- 8/12/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Longtime industry publicist and former journalist Chuck Panama died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills on May 13. He was 93.
Before beginning his career as a journalist and later publicist, Panama served in WWII after being drafted, working as a radio man on a B-24 bomber in the Pacific. After returning home, he enrolled at UCLA on the G.I. Bill, where he became the sports editor of the Daily Bruin. Panama remained closely involved with UCLA athletics after graduation, working with the press on basketball and football games for over 50 years.
Panama began his professional career as a correspondent for the Los Angeles bureau of International News Service (Ins) before following his boss to the PR department at 20th Century Fox, where he worked with such celebrities as Elvis Presley and Jayne Mansfield. During this time, Panama became a voting member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
Before beginning his career as a journalist and later publicist, Panama served in WWII after being drafted, working as a radio man on a B-24 bomber in the Pacific. After returning home, he enrolled at UCLA on the G.I. Bill, where he became the sports editor of the Daily Bruin. Panama remained closely involved with UCLA athletics after graduation, working with the press on basketball and football games for over 50 years.
Panama began his professional career as a correspondent for the Los Angeles bureau of International News Service (Ins) before following his boss to the PR department at 20th Century Fox, where he worked with such celebrities as Elvis Presley and Jayne Mansfield. During this time, Panama became a voting member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
- 5/26/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Chuck Panama, a journalist-turned-publicist who worked with the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Henry Fonda, died Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, CA. He was 93.
After serving in the Army Air Corps as a radio man on a B-24 bomber, Panama moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA. He became sports editor of The Daily Bruin and would go on to work with the press on the school’s football and basketball programs for more than a half-century.
He launched his career with the L.A. bureau of International News Service before moving to the PR department at 20th Century Fox. There, Panama worked with such celebrities as Elvis Presley and Jane Mansfield and became a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Television Academy.
After a dozen years in the motion picture division at Fox, he moved...
After serving in the Army Air Corps as a radio man on a B-24 bomber, Panama moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA. He became sports editor of The Daily Bruin and would go on to work with the press on the school’s football and basketball programs for more than a half-century.
He launched his career with the L.A. bureau of International News Service before moving to the PR department at 20th Century Fox. There, Panama worked with such celebrities as Elvis Presley and Jane Mansfield and became a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Television Academy.
After a dozen years in the motion picture division at Fox, he moved...
- 5/16/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Longtime talent agent Monty Silver died early this morning of bladder cancer in Springs, East Hampton, NY. He was 83. Born in Brooklyn in 1933, Silver started the Monty Silver Agency in New York in the 1950s and kept working until only a few years ago. During the 1990s, he took on partners Robbie Kass and Donna Massetti to open a Los Angeles office and launch SMS Talent. Silver worked with Jon Voight when he got his Equity card and with Fyvush Finkel when he won an Emmy…...
- 1/19/2017
- Deadline TV
Ian Finkel, the World's Greatest Xylophonist and Elliot Finkel, concert pianist extraordinaire offered a first-hand account of the incredible career of their father Fyvush Finkel last night in a touching memorial at the Metropolitan Room. Fyvush had been performing in English and Yiddish roles for nine decades before his passing this summer. His last engagement was at Mr. Finn's Cabaret in the Berkshires, and he had invited the cheering audience at the end of the show to come to his 94th birthday celebration on Oct 9th at the Metropolitan Room. The evening instead was celebration of his life on stage with the performances by family and friends performing his songs, stories, and jokes. To quote one of Fyvush's jokes, if he were present he would have opened the evening by saying, I'm celebrating my 94th birthday today after the applause died down he would then look around and continue.but...
- 10/10/2016
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
TV actor and Yiddish theater favorite Fyvush Finkel has died. He was 93. The “Boston Public” and “Picket Fences” star’s passing was confirmed to the New York Times by his son, Ian, who told the paper that his father had been having heart problems for many months. Finkel won the Best Supporting Actor Emmy in 1994 for his “Fences” role of defense lawyer Douglas Wambaugh. Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2016 (Photos) The lifelong thespian resided in Manhattan, where he died. In 1997, the 75-year-old had a star added to the Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame, which is located on the sidewalk outside the former site of.
- 8/15/2016
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Fyvush Finkel, a longtime bastion of Yiddish theatre and actor who appeared on the stage of vaudeville, Broadway, television and film, died Sunday at his Manhattan home. He was 93.
Finkel's son Ian confirmed the actor's death to the New York Times, adding that Finkel had suffered from heart problems in recent years.
The Brooklyn born-Finkel started his career when he was just nine years old, performing vaudeville to Yiddish crowds along the "Borscht Belt." In 1965, Finkel made his Broadway debut in the original 1964 production of Fiddler on the Roof, at...
Finkel's son Ian confirmed the actor's death to the New York Times, adding that Finkel had suffered from heart problems in recent years.
The Brooklyn born-Finkel started his career when he was just nine years old, performing vaudeville to Yiddish crowds along the "Borscht Belt." In 1965, Finkel made his Broadway debut in the original 1964 production of Fiddler on the Roof, at...
- 8/15/2016
- Rollingstone.com
As confirmed by The New York Times, beloved character Fyvush Finkel has died. The confirmation came from Finkel’s son, who explained that he had been having heart problems “for many months.” Finkel was 93.
Born Philip Finkel in 1922, he began acting at a young age in Manhattan’s Yiddish Theater District and took the stage name “Fyvush.” He tried to get a more traditional job as a teenager, but quickly returned to Yiddish theater and stuck with it well into the ‘60s. As The New York Times explains, though, he had no choice but to break into Broadway as the audience for Yiddish-language shows began to shrink. He ended up playing a number of different roles in Fiddler On The Roof right up until the original production closed in 1972 and returned to the show for a revival in the ‘80s.
Finkel also started appearing in some film ...
Born Philip Finkel in 1922, he began acting at a young age in Manhattan’s Yiddish Theater District and took the stage name “Fyvush.” He tried to get a more traditional job as a teenager, but quickly returned to Yiddish theater and stuck with it well into the ‘60s. As The New York Times explains, though, he had no choice but to break into Broadway as the audience for Yiddish-language shows began to shrink. He ended up playing a number of different roles in Fiddler On The Roof right up until the original production closed in 1972 and returned to the show for a revival in the ‘80s.
Finkel also started appearing in some film ...
- 8/15/2016
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
Fyvush Finkel, whose 80-year career included starring in numerous Yiddish theater productions in addition to the touring production of Fiddler on the Roof and the 1990s TV series Picket Fences, died Sunday at his Manhattan home. He was 93. His son, Ian, confirmed the death to The New York Times, noting that Finkel had been dealing with heart problems for several months. Born Philip Finkel on Oct. 9, 1922, in Brownsville, Brooklyn, he was the son of a Polish tailor and a Russian homemaker who had immigrated earlier. Finkel began his career on the Yiddish stage at age 9
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- 8/15/2016
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fyvush Finkel, best known to audiences for his role as Douglas Wambaugh on the David E. Kelley drama Picket Fences, passed away on Sunday at 93. A cause of death has not yet been disclosed.
The stage and screen star won an Emmy for his work as Picket Fences‘ small-town lawyer, whom he played from 1992-96. He later re-teamed with Kelley on Boston Public in the role of history teacher Harvey Lipschultz.
Finkel began his career more than 80 years ago doing local theater in New York City. His first big break came at 43 when he joined the Fiddler On the Roof touring company.
The stage and screen star won an Emmy for his work as Picket Fences‘ small-town lawyer, whom he played from 1992-96. He later re-teamed with Kelley on Boston Public in the role of history teacher Harvey Lipschultz.
Finkel began his career more than 80 years ago doing local theater in New York City. His first big break came at 43 when he joined the Fiddler On the Roof touring company.
- 8/15/2016
- TVLine.com
Deli Man is not a movie about food. On the surface, it appears to be a documentary about deli food and it’s history, but in truth is much more focused on a passion. This film chronicles the passion of a handful of men passionate about a rapidly dying breed of cultural establishments and their determination to stick it out. This is great because, honestly, we really don’t need more food documentaries. We have plenty.
Much of this lively, often humorous documentary focuses on one man, David “Ziggy” Gruber, a curious kid with an old spirit turned classically trained chef turned deli owner and operator. Directed Erik Greenberg Anjou rightfully spends a lot of time with Ziggy, as he wears his passion on his sleeve and truly knows what he’s doing. Anjou chronicles Ziggy’s formative childhood years, his inspiration and journey to becoming the heart of one...
Much of this lively, often humorous documentary focuses on one man, David “Ziggy” Gruber, a curious kid with an old spirit turned classically trained chef turned deli owner and operator. Directed Erik Greenberg Anjou rightfully spends a lot of time with Ziggy, as he wears his passion on his sleeve and truly knows what he’s doing. Anjou chronicles Ziggy’s formative childhood years, his inspiration and journey to becoming the heart of one...
- 3/27/2015
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Deli Man Cohen Media Group Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: A- Director: Erik Greenberg Anjou Cast: Fyvush Finkel, Jerry Stiller, Larry King, Ziggy Gruber Screened at: Cohen Media Group, NYC, 2/11/15 Opens: March 6, 2015 I’m taking this group tour in Ireland some two decades ago, and I introduce myself to fellow tourists, who are all Irish-Americans. Says one: “You’re a dentist, or maybe a teacher. Right?” I felt like saying, “Does it show? It’s that obvious?” But before I could finish my thoughts, this guy, Donovan I think, adds, “Hey, did you check out the deli on the corner?” I could asked [ Read More ]
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- 3/2/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
54 Below's upcoming acts, including Emmy Award-winner Fyvush Finkel TV's 'Picket Fences,' 'Boston Public' the film A Serious Man on stage, Little Shop of Horrors, Cafe Crown Tony Award-winner Beth Leavel The Drowsy Chaperone, Elf , 42nd Street,Show Boat, Crazy for You, and Tony Award-winning singersongwriter Stew Passing Strange, recently gathered at the venue for a press performance. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the speical preview below...
- 2/25/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene just presented a remarkable concert event celebrating the folk legend and actor Theodore Bikel in anticipation of his 90th birthday in May 2014. 'Miracle of Miracles A Chanukah Extravaganza' filled the stage at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, last night, December 2 with one rare musical treat after another. Featured in the all-star cast were the beloved Emmy-winning actor Fyvush Finkel, klezmer giant Frank London, the Russian concert phenomenon Psoy Korolenko and the Broadway actors Joanne Borts 'Once' and Elmore James, among many others. Check out photos from the special event below...
- 12/3/2013
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York -- Last weekend, while in town for the New York Film Festival, I met up for a long lunch and interview with Fyvush Finkel, one of this city's most colorful showbiz characters and, at the age of 90, a living legend in his own right. Finkel, a charming raconteur who will turn 91 on Wednesday -- and remains as sharp as a tack (see the video of our chat at the bottom of this page) -- has been in show business since the age of nine. The child of Polish and Russian immigrants who spoke Yiddish at home, he made his
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- 9/29/2013
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After taking last week off, we were treated to "The Rematch" of Harry Korn vs. Roseanna Remmick here, as Harry again defended Puck, the former assistant District Attorney.
Did anyone else feel like we dropped into Puck’s case already in progress? It reminded me of the opening of the last episode where Harry and Tommy walked in hung over, talking about an event we didn't see.
I understand openings like this are supposed to give us the feeling that time is passing and that things happen when we are not around; however, doing it for every episode gives me a different feeling: that I’ve missed something. I find myself verifying episode numbers to make sure this isn't true.
I enjoyed watching Fyvush Finkel and Katherine Helmond as Abe and Gloria Gold. Helmond looks good for 83 and Finkel still has some strong chops for being nearly 90. Having grown up...
Did anyone else feel like we dropped into Puck’s case already in progress? It reminded me of the opening of the last episode where Harry and Tommy walked in hung over, talking about an event we didn't see.
I understand openings like this are supposed to give us the feeling that time is passing and that things happen when we are not around; however, doing it for every episode gives me a different feeling: that I’ve missed something. I find myself verifying episode numbers to make sure this isn't true.
I enjoyed watching Fyvush Finkel and Katherine Helmond as Abe and Gloria Gold. Helmond looks good for 83 and Finkel still has some strong chops for being nearly 90. Having grown up...
- 11/3/2011
- by jim@tvfanatic.com (Jim G.)
- TVfanatic
Happy birthday to Best Actress winner Joan Fontaine (Suspicion, 1941), also known as the second Mrs. DeWinter. She turns 93 years young today. What on earth was she thinking about when she won the Oscar. This photo to your left fascinates me on account of "who knows?" It seems so much more candid than many Oscar night photos.
I keep the following "still with us!" list, not from any morbid curiousity but from a genuine happiness that some legendary screen stars are still walking the earth even though most of them aren't walking the screens these days. This year has been rough with the losses so maybe I'm going to stop keep this list. My heart was in the right place! We want the following to know that their past accomplishments are acknowledged by new generations.
The Oldest Living Oscar Nominees
All of them were born before the movies even had sound!
I keep the following "still with us!" list, not from any morbid curiousity but from a genuine happiness that some legendary screen stars are still walking the earth even though most of them aren't walking the screens these days. This year has been rough with the losses so maybe I'm going to stop keep this list. My heart was in the right place! We want the following to know that their past accomplishments are acknowledged by new generations.
The Oldest Living Oscar Nominees
All of them were born before the movies even had sound!
- 10/23/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
I.m a pretty serious goy. When the Coen Brothers latest offering arrived at the office it was delivered by a Korean kid and was accompanied by a white envelope stuffed with one hundred dollar bills. So I knew I was going to like it. In the old country (and entirely in Yiddish), Velvel (Allen Lewis Rickman) has had some trouble on the road during a snowstorm. He arrives home late to his wife (Yelena Shmulenson) to tell of his troubles, but says that he got help from a friend of hers, Reb Groshkover (Fyvush Finkel). She says that can.t be because Reb died three years ago and that what Velvel encountered on the road was a dybbuk.
- 2/18/2010
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
Chicago – One of the byproducts of expanding the Best Picture nominees has been that half of the most notable films of the year in the eyes of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are now available on Blu-ray and DVD including “District 9,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Up,” “Inglourious Basterds,” and now “A Serious Man”.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
The Coens third Best Picture nominee (also nominated for Best Original Screenplay and stupidly snubbed in Best Cinematography considering the beauty of Roger Deakins’ work) is also their most biographical, a period piece about the tough predicament of keeping the faith when hardships befall us for no appraent reason. Is it some higher plan? We are asked to live good, moral lives but sometimes it feels like it gets us nowhere.
A Serious Man was released on Blu-ray and DVD on February 9th, 2010.
Photo credit: Universal Home Video
“A Serious Man” is about a math teacher,...
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
The Coens third Best Picture nominee (also nominated for Best Original Screenplay and stupidly snubbed in Best Cinematography considering the beauty of Roger Deakins’ work) is also their most biographical, a period piece about the tough predicament of keeping the faith when hardships befall us for no appraent reason. Is it some higher plan? We are asked to live good, moral lives but sometimes it feels like it gets us nowhere.
A Serious Man was released on Blu-ray and DVD on February 9th, 2010.
Photo credit: Universal Home Video
“A Serious Man” is about a math teacher,...
- 2/11/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
By Susan Granger - This 14th feature film from Joel and Ethan Coen is bewildering. Perhaps it.s best described as a philosophical meditation about their insular Midwestern upbringing - with a historical prologue involving a Yiddish-speaking husband and wife in a Polish shtetl visited by someone (Fyvush Finkel) who may or may not be a Dybbuk (a dead person usually associated with evil).
Flash forward to 1967 in suburban Minneapolis, where the story revolves around a righteous, Jewish physics professor, Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), who is up for tenure at the college where he teaches. His Jefferson Airplane-obsessed, stoner son (Aaron Wolff) is about to be Bar Mitzvah and his unstable, misanthropic brother (Richard Kind) has moved into his home, monopolizing the bathroom, which infuriates his teenage daughter (Jessica McManus) who is continually trying to wash her hair. And he fears the deer-hunting, anti-Semitic neighbors are encroaching over his property line.
Flash forward to 1967 in suburban Minneapolis, where the story revolves around a righteous, Jewish physics professor, Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), who is up for tenure at the college where he teaches. His Jefferson Airplane-obsessed, stoner son (Aaron Wolff) is about to be Bar Mitzvah and his unstable, misanthropic brother (Richard Kind) has moved into his home, monopolizing the bathroom, which infuriates his teenage daughter (Jessica McManus) who is continually trying to wash her hair. And he fears the deer-hunting, anti-Semitic neighbors are encroaching over his property line.
- 10/30/2009
- Arizona Reporter
Focus Features has released new images from "A Serious Man," starring Simon Helberg, Richard Kind, Adam Arkin, George Wyner, Katherine Borowitz, Fyvush Finkel, Michael Stuhlbarg and Stephen Park. Ethan and Joel Coen write, produce and direct the film which sees theatres on October 2nd. "A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him.
- 9/15/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We have the trailer, interview clips and film clips from Ethan and Joel Coen's "A Serious Man," starring Simon Helberg, Richard Kind, Adam Arkin, George Wyner, Katherine Borowitz, Fyvush Finkel, Michael Stuhlbarg and Stephen Park. The film opens on October 2nd via Focus Features. "A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more...
- 9/9/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
I never skip a Coen brothers movie, even the ones that hardly anyone mentions anymore, like The Man Who Wasn't There. Even when the movies don't quite work, they all have wonderful moments I'd hate to miss. I prefer the comedies -- don't shoot me when I say I liked Burn After Reading better than No Country for Old Men -- so I'm looking forward to their next movie, the dark comedy A Serious Man, which will open in limited release starting October 2.
The first trailer for A Serious Man has just been posted to the Apple site, and if you didn't know it was a Coen brothers movie, the visuals would give it away almost immediately. You also realize quickly that this is a non-star movie -- only a few character actors may seem familiar. The cast includes Richard Kind, Adam Arkin and Fyvush Finkel.
Michael Stuhlbarg plays Larry Gopnik,...
The first trailer for A Serious Man has just been posted to the Apple site, and if you didn't know it was a Coen brothers movie, the visuals would give it away almost immediately. You also realize quickly that this is a non-star movie -- only a few character actors may seem familiar. The cast includes Richard Kind, Adam Arkin and Fyvush Finkel.
Michael Stuhlbarg plays Larry Gopnik,...
- 7/30/2009
- by Jette Kernion
- Cinematical
I honestly have no idea what's happening in this trailer. Or how the Coen brothers are able to make a film a year while other poor saps are sitting around stuck on page 28 of the screenplay they've been working on since college. I'm pretty sure they finished another movie before I finished my bagel and cream cheese this morning. Granted, I do like to savor my breakfast, but that's pretty ridiculous. Meanwhile, this trailer for A Serious Man tells me absolutely nothing about the story except how unhappy the main character must be. Count me in: Who in the what? He's right. That rabbi didn't look busy at all. Something tells me that there's potential for comedy here, but a larger part is pretty sure that the trademark angst of the Coens is coming out in full force. Of course, the last time there was a trailer for one of their films, everybody...
- 7/30/2009
- by Dr. Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
With the return tomorrow night of "Damages," the hyper-adrenalized legal show brought to you by the FX Network (motto: "We're not just about broken, morally ambigious men; we've got a show with a broken, morally ambigious Glenn Close also"), I thought I'd throw some love out to Zeljko Ivanek.
Gesundheit.
Besides having the second greatest ethic name in show business (the winner and still the champion? Fyvush Finkel), Ivanek always brings a wonderfully ... um ... well .... no other way to put this, I suppose ... a wonderfully sleazy energy to any proceedings.
Let's say you didn't watch Ivanek's Emmy-winning turn as attorney Ray Fiske, but Ivanek's face looks familiar. Well perhaps you remember him as the weaselly Governor Devlin on HBO's "Oz." Or perhaps you remember him as the weaselly terrorist in the first season of Fox's "24." Or perhaps you remember him as the weaselly ex-hubby of villainess Juliet on "Lost." Or...
Gesundheit.
Besides having the second greatest ethic name in show business (the winner and still the champion? Fyvush Finkel), Ivanek always brings a wonderfully ... um ... well .... no other way to put this, I suppose ... a wonderfully sleazy energy to any proceedings.
Let's say you didn't watch Ivanek's Emmy-winning turn as attorney Ray Fiske, but Ivanek's face looks familiar. Well perhaps you remember him as the weaselly Governor Devlin on HBO's "Oz." Or perhaps you remember him as the weaselly terrorist in the first season of Fox's "24." Or perhaps you remember him as the weaselly ex-hubby of villainess Juliet on "Lost." Or...
- 1/6/2009
- by Chad
- Planetallstar.com
Veterans Fyvush Finkel and Delta Burke are leading a slew of guest stars tapped for The Wedding Bells, David E. Kelley's midseason series for Fox. Chris Williams also has joined as a regular.
Wedding Bells, from David E. Kelley Prods. and 20th Century Fox TV, is a romantic dramedy about the Bell Sisters, played by KaDee Strickland, Teri Polo and Sarah Jones, who run a family-owned wedding-planning business dubbed the Wedding Palace.
In pilot-casting news, Richard T. Jones has been tapped to star in Fox's Sarah Connor Chronicles, while Evan Handler and Natascha McElhone have come onboard the untitled David Duchovny comedy at Showtime.
Jones (repped by Innovative Artists and Raw Talent) will play an FBI agent on the Warner Bros. TV/C2 drama Sarah Connor, based on the character from the Terminator films, who is tasked with tracking down Sarah Connor and her son, John.
Handler (APA) will play a literary agent and best friend of the character played by David Duchovny on the Showtime series about an addict novelist raising his child.
Wedding Bells, from David E. Kelley Prods. and 20th Century Fox TV, is a romantic dramedy about the Bell Sisters, played by KaDee Strickland, Teri Polo and Sarah Jones, who run a family-owned wedding-planning business dubbed the Wedding Palace.
In pilot-casting news, Richard T. Jones has been tapped to star in Fox's Sarah Connor Chronicles, while Evan Handler and Natascha McElhone have come onboard the untitled David Duchovny comedy at Showtime.
Jones (repped by Innovative Artists and Raw Talent) will play an FBI agent on the Warner Bros. TV/C2 drama Sarah Connor, based on the character from the Terminator films, who is tasked with tracking down Sarah Connor and her son, John.
Handler (APA) will play a literary agent and best friend of the character played by David Duchovny on the Showtime series about an addict novelist raising his child.
- 1/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Part history of the Yiddish theater, part sitcom and part family drama, Arnon Goldfinger's documentary chronicling the saga of the Burstein Family, a popular Yiddish vaudeville act, is a bittersweet remembrance of a long gone era in showbiz. Most suitable for appropriately themed festivals and public television exposure, "The Komediant" (the word is Yiddish for actor) is currently receiving a theatrical release at New York's Lincoln Plaza and Quad Cinemas.
The family was headed by the late Pesach'ke Burstein, born at the end of the last century to an Orthodox Jewish family in Poland. Like the protagonist of "The Jazz Singer", Pesach'ke was shunned by his family for his theatrical ambitions, and he immigrated to America in 1924. Achieving success on the Yiddish theater circuit -- he became famous for his "bird whistling"-- he met and married Lillian Lux, two decades his junior, and the couple had a pair of twins, Mike and Susan, who were incorporated into the act while they were still children. Traveling the world and performing as the Burstein Family, they were highly successful. Eventually, Mike, who really longed for crossover success, overshadowed his parents and became the star of the act.
What might have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffused with complexity, as the film chronicles the family strife that inevitably occurred with the pressures of their rarefied profession. Susan, who became a notable ventriloquist, rebelled at the lifestyle and opted out at age 18, marrying a man many years her senior. And Mike, chafing at the act's limitations, changed his name to Burstyn and became a Broadway star with the musical "Barnum". Interviewed separately, the surviving family members provide vividly contrasting and poignant remembrances of their careers and strained emotional dynamics.
Archival clips and home movies are used to terrific effect, and interviews with such other figures of the Yiddish theater as Fyvush Finkel (his account of the authoritarian Hebrew Actors Union, which once rejected Stella Adler for membership, is priceless) add the necessary context.
THE KOMEDIANT
New Yorker Films
Credits:
Director: Arnon Goldfinger
Producers: Amir Harel with Arnon Goldfinger, Oshra Schwartz and Zebra Productions Ltd.
Screenwriter: Oshra Schwartz
Director of photography: Yoram Millo
Editor: Einat Glaser-Zarbin
No MPAA rating
Running time 82 minutes...
The family was headed by the late Pesach'ke Burstein, born at the end of the last century to an Orthodox Jewish family in Poland. Like the protagonist of "The Jazz Singer", Pesach'ke was shunned by his family for his theatrical ambitions, and he immigrated to America in 1924. Achieving success on the Yiddish theater circuit -- he became famous for his "bird whistling"-- he met and married Lillian Lux, two decades his junior, and the couple had a pair of twins, Mike and Susan, who were incorporated into the act while they were still children. Traveling the world and performing as the Burstein Family, they were highly successful. Eventually, Mike, who really longed for crossover success, overshadowed his parents and became the star of the act.
What might have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffused with complexity, as the film chronicles the family strife that inevitably occurred with the pressures of their rarefied profession. Susan, who became a notable ventriloquist, rebelled at the lifestyle and opted out at age 18, marrying a man many years her senior. And Mike, chafing at the act's limitations, changed his name to Burstyn and became a Broadway star with the musical "Barnum". Interviewed separately, the surviving family members provide vividly contrasting and poignant remembrances of their careers and strained emotional dynamics.
Archival clips and home movies are used to terrific effect, and interviews with such other figures of the Yiddish theater as Fyvush Finkel (his account of the authoritarian Hebrew Actors Union, which once rejected Stella Adler for membership, is priceless) add the necessary context.
THE KOMEDIANT
New Yorker Films
Credits:
Director: Arnon Goldfinger
Producers: Amir Harel with Arnon Goldfinger, Oshra Schwartz and Zebra Productions Ltd.
Screenwriter: Oshra Schwartz
Director of photography: Yoram Millo
Editor: Einat Glaser-Zarbin
No MPAA rating
Running time 82 minutes...
- 4/10/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There's nothing particularly magic about "Aaron's Magic Village", an artfully animated but weakly told tale based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Stories for Children".
Despite its generous ethnic seasonings, including song lyrics by Sheldon Harnick ("Fiddler on the Roof") and enthusiastic, Yiddish-peppered narration by Fyvush Finkel, the family-oriented animation feature (originally dubbed the catchier "The Real Shlemiel") is curiously bland, unsatisfying fare.
Sneaking in a limited theatrical release before its video arrival via Columbia TriStar, the picture lacks the element of universal appeal that would have enabled it to travel beyond a regigious market.
Recently orphaned, 10-year-old Aaron (ably voiced by young "All My Children" veteran Tommy Michaels) and his trusty companion Zlateh the Goat (Tovah Feldshuh) goes to live with his Aunt Sarah (Feldshuh again) and Uncle Shlemiel (Ronn Carroll) in the Polish village of Chelm.
Upon his arrival, Aaron discovers that his uncle, like the majority of Chelm's dumb and dumber denizens, isn't exactly the brightest bulb on the, uh, Hanukkah bush. As a result, it's up to the youngster to stop the evil Sorcerer (Steve Newman) and his gigantic clay-and-water Golem from destroying the world, starting with Chelm.
Of course, Aaron ultimately succeeds in his mission, with a little help from good old Zlateh and the Lantuch (Ivy Austin), a centuries-old imp in the early stages of Alzheimer's.
Directed by Paris-based animator and "Sesame Street" vet Albert Hanan Kaminski, the film is visually rich in background detail -- a computer-generated sequence involving the Golem's destruction of Chelm is particularly impressive -- but the stitched-together Singer stories (by Kaminski and Jacqueline Galia Benousilio) feel choppy and unsubstantial.
On the audio end, the assorted vocal talent is in fine form, with Finkel delivering his wall-to-wall narration with sing-song gusto.
Speaking of songs, those written by Harnick and composing legend Michel Legrand (who previously collaborated on "Umbrellas of Cherbourg") are likable and gently melodic but ultimately forgettable. It's far more likely the kiddies will be tapping their feet out of restlessness.
AARON'S MAGIC VILLAGE
Avalanche Releasing
An Albert Kaminski film
A Benousilio-Volkle production
in association with Columbia TriStar Pictures
Director Albert Hanan Kaminski
Screenwriters Albert Hanan Kaminski
and Jacqueline Galia Benousilio
Adapted from "Stories for Children" by
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Producers Dora Benousilio and Peter Volkle
Music and songs Michel Legrand
Lyrics Sheldon Harnick
Color/stereo
Voices:
Narrator Fyvush Finkel
Aaron Tommy Michaels
Aunt Sarah, Zlateh the Goat, Matchmaker
Tovah Feldshuh
Uncle Shlemiel Ronn Carroll
Gronam Ox Harry Goz
The Sorcerer Steve Newman
The Lantuch Ivy Austin
Running time -- 80 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
Despite its generous ethnic seasonings, including song lyrics by Sheldon Harnick ("Fiddler on the Roof") and enthusiastic, Yiddish-peppered narration by Fyvush Finkel, the family-oriented animation feature (originally dubbed the catchier "The Real Shlemiel") is curiously bland, unsatisfying fare.
Sneaking in a limited theatrical release before its video arrival via Columbia TriStar, the picture lacks the element of universal appeal that would have enabled it to travel beyond a regigious market.
Recently orphaned, 10-year-old Aaron (ably voiced by young "All My Children" veteran Tommy Michaels) and his trusty companion Zlateh the Goat (Tovah Feldshuh) goes to live with his Aunt Sarah (Feldshuh again) and Uncle Shlemiel (Ronn Carroll) in the Polish village of Chelm.
Upon his arrival, Aaron discovers that his uncle, like the majority of Chelm's dumb and dumber denizens, isn't exactly the brightest bulb on the, uh, Hanukkah bush. As a result, it's up to the youngster to stop the evil Sorcerer (Steve Newman) and his gigantic clay-and-water Golem from destroying the world, starting with Chelm.
Of course, Aaron ultimately succeeds in his mission, with a little help from good old Zlateh and the Lantuch (Ivy Austin), a centuries-old imp in the early stages of Alzheimer's.
Directed by Paris-based animator and "Sesame Street" vet Albert Hanan Kaminski, the film is visually rich in background detail -- a computer-generated sequence involving the Golem's destruction of Chelm is particularly impressive -- but the stitched-together Singer stories (by Kaminski and Jacqueline Galia Benousilio) feel choppy and unsubstantial.
On the audio end, the assorted vocal talent is in fine form, with Finkel delivering his wall-to-wall narration with sing-song gusto.
Speaking of songs, those written by Harnick and composing legend Michel Legrand (who previously collaborated on "Umbrellas of Cherbourg") are likable and gently melodic but ultimately forgettable. It's far more likely the kiddies will be tapping their feet out of restlessness.
AARON'S MAGIC VILLAGE
Avalanche Releasing
An Albert Kaminski film
A Benousilio-Volkle production
in association with Columbia TriStar Pictures
Director Albert Hanan Kaminski
Screenwriters Albert Hanan Kaminski
and Jacqueline Galia Benousilio
Adapted from "Stories for Children" by
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Producers Dora Benousilio and Peter Volkle
Music and songs Michel Legrand
Lyrics Sheldon Harnick
Color/stereo
Voices:
Narrator Fyvush Finkel
Aaron Tommy Michaels
Aunt Sarah, Zlateh the Goat, Matchmaker
Tovah Feldshuh
Uncle Shlemiel Ronn Carroll
Gronam Ox Harry Goz
The Sorcerer Steve Newman
The Lantuch Ivy Austin
Running time -- 80 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
- 9/30/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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