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went to work at CBS
and was told he didn't
work there any
longer. His marriage
suffered, and his life
was ruined. To make
a living he started to
reach, so what was his
damnation, in a sense,
was my blessing."
In the 1970s and
1980s, Landau's
career also suffered,
courtesy of typecasting
after three years on the hit TV series

Mission: Impossible.
"Everyone saw me as Superspy,
recalls Landau, who subsequently
spent more than a decade playing
"meaningless roles in mindless
movies" (the low point: The Harlem
Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island).
He finally escaped Actors Purgatory
when Francis Ford Coppola cast him as
a crusty Jewish businessman in Tucker:
The Man and His Dream in 1988.
But his memories of B-movie hell
helped him portray the tragic has-been
Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's quirky Ed
Wood, for which he won the 1995
Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Landau also played the murderous
ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal in
Crimes & Misdemeanors — "the first
time I ever saw Woody Allen embrace
his Jewishness," he says.
"In Annie Hall, there is a scene
where his character is at dinner with a
Protestant family and suddenly he
feels self-conscious and imagines him-
self wearing peyos (sidecurls), like he's

Jim Gluey
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Laments Landau:
'Movie houses
today just arent
the same kind
of experience."

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But in Crimes and Misdemeanors,
Landau notes, a rabbi serves as the
moral voice of the film.

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The actor portrays a less tortured char-
acter in The Majestic, though the ten-
der, father-son relationship that devel-
ops between his character and Carrev's
is nuanced and complex.
Off camera, life imitated art as
Majestic screenwriter Michael Sloane
— who never knew his own father —
stron g ly bonded with Landau. The
actor didn't realize how much he
meant to the younger man until he
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dominatrix in 1993's Love and
Human Remains and a sexy vixen on
Fox-TV's 24.)
Yet Kirschner and Bender have also
defied their own "types." The preppy
Bender went on to write naughty skits
for the MTV Movie Awards. And
Kirschner, the crranddaue,-hter of
Holocaust survivors, studied
Dostoyevsky at McGill 'University and
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Mideast analyst for the Canadian

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