Amp SHE DETROIT iEwisii NEWS Michael Pressman Directs Theater Film MR. and MRS. HAROLD AUGUST FLORI & LINDA SELTZER of Russian Jewish immig- rants. He was raised in a HOLLYWOOD highly artistic, theatrical Michael Pressman is the family. His paternal co-producer and director of grandparents were noted "Those Lips, Those Eyes." opera performers in the old Youthful Michael, in his country. His father is stage student years, acted in and television director summer stock, an experi- David Pressman. ence he put to good use After starting his show while guiding the picture business career as a child which has its setting in the actor, Michael attended summer season of a Mid- Carnegie Tech in west stock company in the Pittsburgh to study acting early 1950s. and directing. He then came Frank Langella and to Los Angeles to attend Glynnis O'Connor play CalArts School of Film and members of the stock com- Radio, where he was greatly pany, he as a song-and- encouraged by its dean, dance man, she as a lead Alexander MacKendrick, dancer. The triangle is com- the director of such pictures pleted by Thomas Hulce as "The Sweet Smell of Suc- who portrays an apprentice cess" and "The Man in the property man. Kevin White Suit." McCarthy looms on the Michael raised the money sideline as Langella's for his first feature film sneaky agent. himself. "That was the only Langella last year gained- way I knew to break into the world prominence as director ranks," he admits. "Dracula" on the Broadway "I couldn't afford to wait stage and in the subsequent around until someone asked movie. Hulce was the hap- me." less lad on stage and screen That project was "The in "Equus." Great Texas Dynamite Ch- Most of our other ase," distributed by Roger players also had stage Corman's New World Pic- experience," Pressman tures. Recently, he directed says, "and there is no the critically-acclaimed question that theatrical "Like Mom, Like Me," a background made them CBS television film starring feel more at home in the Linda Lavin and Kristy story, particularly those McNichol. who, like Hulce, appear His wife, Constance, is as backstage workers." a violinist with the Debut The romantic comedy, Symphony in -Los with music written by Angeles. His brother-in- David Shaber, and is law, Nicholas Meyer, based on memories of his wrote the novels, "The own past as,a stock com- Seven Percent Solution" pany stagehand, al- and "West End Horror" though it is not an au- and most recently made tobiographical story. his directorial debut with Pressman filmed most of Time After Time." "Those Lips, Those Eyes" in As an artist, Pressman Cain Park Theatre in Cleve- believes that his work is an land Heights, Ohio. The extension of his personality. open-air theatre was built He becomes emotionally in- in 1938 under a public volved in everything he is works project on land origi- doing. Yet, he realizes what nally deeded to the commu- he does is not complete un- nity by John D. Rockefeller. less it reaches others. Pressman has been a stu- "You never know if the dent of the cinema and the film works until it's art of acting all his life. viewed," he says. His pic- When he was 13, he made tures not only work. They his first short film, "The communicate! Fall of Dracula," (it is coin- LARRY PEERCE, son cidental that he sub- of Metropolitan Opera star sequently worked with the Jan Peerce, completed star of the multi-million entirely on location in dollar feature, "Dracula") Spokane, Wash. the MGM which was the hit of his New feature, "Why Would I Lie?" York neighborhood. from the screenplay by At 17, he broadened his Peter Stone, based on the scope and audience appeal novel, "The Fabricator" by by single-handedly produc- Hollis Hodges, with Treat ing a 30-minute romantic Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, film called "Friends," which Valerie Curtin, Anne won him a Cine Golden Byrne, Susan Helfond and Eagle. Jocelyn Brando (Marlon's Good fortune contin- sister). Williams, along with di- ued to follow him. His first feature-length pic- rector Peerce, producer ture, The Great Texas Pancho Kohner and cast Dynamite Chase," won members were at hand for a unanimous critical festival at Spokane's River- acclaim. His second film, front Park, with music, "The Bad News Bears in rides and day-long Breaking Training," was entertainment prior to the a huge box office success, world premiere. as was his third, the con- troversial, "Boulevard Anecdotes are sometimes Nights," dealing with the the best vehicles of truth, plight of Hispanic youths and if striking and appro- in the outskirts of Los priate are often more im- Angeles. pressive and powerful than Pressman is the grandson argument. (Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.) friends a year filled with health, happiness, joy and peace DAVID and ELLEN BURNSTEIN MARK, ALAN & LINDA wish all their family and friends a year filled with health, happiness, joy and peace MARILYN and BARRY GOODMAN BRIAN and LISA wish all their family and friends a year filled with health, happiness, joy and peace A very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to all our family and dear; friends MR. and MRS. MALE ELBAUM & FAMILY ;i Itapptc neufgeal MR. and MRS. 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