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,.anted to be an actor. Growing up,
investing money in a movie about a
is mother took him to Broadway
Holocaust survivor living in New
nd Off-Broadway plays, the opera
York, three Jewish women and a rabbi
and the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
— and it was a non-Jew who finally
t Brooklyn College he performed in
gave me the money.
chool plays, and during his senior
"I also wanted to do the Isaac
Tear, he co-produced an Off-
Bashevis Singer story Shoah, about
Broadway production of He Who
Poland right before the war began. I
Gets Slapped.
tried to get the money but finally had
"[Mv friend and I] did it for $200,"
to give up.
`-c. recalls. "We were kids — only 20
"And then there is Pictures of
Fears old."
Fidelman, adapted from the novel by
Howard Sackler
Bernard Malamud. For
(who later wrote The
years I have been try-
Great White Way) spor-
ing to make this film
ted Mazursky and
about a Jewish painter
offered him a role in his
who goes to Rome to
new screenplay, Fear
find the answer to art
and Desire — produced
— but I can't get the
money. It's the movie
y Stanley Kubrick.
that I most want to
wo years later,
make."
Mazursky landed a part
While Mazursky's
in Blackboard Jungle,
life has been filled with
starring Sidney Poitier.
glitz and glamour, he
But before success
also has paid a price
struck, Mazursky found
for the accompanying
himself doing every-
high-powered stress. In
thing from waiting
1996, his doctors •
tables in the Catskills to
found four blocked
derforming stand-up
arteries, and he under-
comedy. It was during
Paul Mazursky went a four-way
that period that he fell
at his bar mitzvah. bypass.
in love with Betsey
"The operation was
Purdy, whom he mar-
successful, but I now
ried. They have two
view myself with differ-
daughters, Meg and Jill.
ent eyes," he writes in
From his stand-up
his book. "Four-way
work, he landed a job as
bypasses tend, I sup-
-,writer for The Danny
pose, to make you
'Kaye Show, and eventu-
reassess your life. You
ally made a name for
realize how wonderful
himself with a long,
your family is, how
impressive list of films,
much you love your
many of which broke
friends and how much
new ground.
you've
taken them for
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involved."
Carney; Enemies, A Love
For now, Mazursky
Story, which earned him
is trying to take life a
the New York Critics
little easier. While he is proud of his
Circle Award; Moscow on the Hudson,
body of work, and by no means
starring Robin Williams; Scenes From
intends to back off from filmmaking,
a Mall, with Woody Allen and Bette
he wants to spend more time with his
Midler; and An Unmarried Woman,
wife, daughters and grandchildren. In
starring Jill Clayburgh. The latter
the -meantime, he hopes people will
\;arned an Oscar nomination for Best
enjoy his book.
Picture in 1978.
"Writing the book gave me a real
Despite his successes, Ivlazursky —
good feeling," he says. "Although there
who calls himself a "Passover Jew"
is no censoring, I didn't want to say
because he celebrates only the High
anything detrimental about someone
Holidays and Passover — has encoun-
who is still alive. I am just happy that
tered difficulties in making Jewish-
I could include my grandparents,
themed movies. "I had a lot of trouble
whom I adored. I know they would
making Enemies A Love Story," he says.
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