11 11 11 9! !!' Announcing... Pans to Go A new carry-out service ,.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 His hits include ME OW S H granted. You make a Harry and Tonto, with promise to really listen, an Oscar-winning per.: 1• ADIE\THIB 3 4 LIFE AND DILI .••• not to be so self- Srmance by Art sw.on 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. have loved it." 1-1 "People were terribly afraid of THE MAGIC S51:..; au :5 05.55•5$ 3"e. .v.sx Usr: •• • • •, , a.SR .2. 5, , 5-.. ,. 0.i.kt ■ 5.5v15'31. c$5,5t5 45 .94324, '. 5 . . 5.5 555-51:4•545,:i tr5.: *WV. 5451'.. ,.•X:ES2