\”I really, really believe that I have the skills, the courage, the conviction and the know-how to make a difference in the peace process in the Middle East.\”
Platt has crossed more than a few bridges himself. After he graduated from Penn, where he produced a small off-Broadway musical titled, \”Francis,\” about St. Francis of Assisi, Platt studied entertainment law at NYU, while interning with agent Sam Cohn at International Creative Management, Inc. in New York.
Roger Mayer lounges in the living room of his house on Benedict Canyon Road, a comfortable two-story clapboard structure in Beverly Hills. The newly minted octogenarian, who looks at least 10 years younger, effortlessly recalls dates, numbers and deals from decades ago.
\”Keeping Up With the Steins\” proves that you don\’t have to be Jewish to make a funny, insider Jewish film, or that if you grow up in the Bronx or went to school in North Hollywood, you become a Jew by osmosis.
Caroline Baron, the film\’s producer who worked with Hoffman on \”Flawless\” and has known screenwriter Dan Futterman and Miller for a number of years, said that all films present challenges, but that from the outset, she had \”100 percent confidence in Bennett as a director and Phil as an actor.\”
First came God. Then came Godot. Then came Woody Allen. Actually, none of them ever showed up — not in the play \”Waiting for Godot\” or the newly acclaimed short feature film parodying it, \”Waiting for Woody Allen.\”
In his 86th year and in his 86th movie, Kirk Douglas has fulfilled a long-cherished dream by uniting his clan in the film, "It Runs in the Family."
When the now-legendary film director Martin Scorsese first discovered Herbert Asbury\’s book, \”Gangs of New York,\” in 1970 and decided to make it into a film, Rick Schwartz was a 2-year-old growing up in a modern Orthodox home in Teaneck, N.J.
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