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A foursome of Hermelin cousins provides
family flavor in new Adam Sandler film.
SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News
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unch-Drunk Love, the new
Adam Sandler movie open-
ing Friday, Oct. 25, in local
theaters, may seem a surreal
kind of family film to some Detroiters
— at the beginning anyway.
Its actors include four actual relatives
who grew up in Michigan, and they are
shown in one early scene — a dinner
party that starts out like the many
informal get-togethers they frequently
host in real life.
Julie Hermelin Frank and Karen
Hermelin Borman along with Lisa
Spector and Mia Weinberg are two sets
of sisters (four cousins) who take on
fictional identities as the sisters of Barry
Egan, Sandler's character. Although the
cousins grew up with strong Jewish
identities and were involved with many
events at Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
religion stays out of this picture.
The cousins, relocated to California
at various times, got their parts after
meeting with the casting director,
Cassandra Kulukundis, known through
yet another relative. The four had to
read for writer-director-producer Paul
Thomas Anderson for final approval.
Just as Sandler was new to the type of
serious role he plays as a bachelor look-
ing for a relationship, the cousins were
new to the star treatment they enjoyed
starting almost two years ago, as the
project was launched. In the course of
the film, Sandler's character gets mixed
up with phone-sex predators using vio-
lence in an extortion scheme.
"Casting some non-professionals in
films is something Paul regularly does,"
says Spector, 37, who has done social
work but is now a full-time wife and
mother in a blended family of five chil-
dren. "It was so much fun and so unex-
pected, and it was great being with
Mia, Julie and Karen."
Spector, who attended Eastern
Michigan University and the University
of Michigan after graduating from West
Bloomfield High School, had a bit of a
heads-up on acting. She is the daughter
of Henrietta Hermelin Weinberg, who
has a strong stage career in Michigan
and currently is appearing in Shear
Madness at the Gem Theatre in Detroit.
"Although I had a tinge of nervousness
when I first went in, I didn't feel nervous
throughout the rest of the time," says
Spector, whose husband, Neal Spector, is
Working `Comedian'
New Jerry Seinfeld film reveals the makings of standup
— as he brings his live act to Detroit.
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he film Comedian is not the
first documentary to be
made about Jerry Seinfeld
— it was preceded by
HBO's Jerry Seinfeld: IM Telling You
for the Last Time in 1998 — and it
probably won't be the last.
Timed to open just as Seinfeld
embarks on his latest standup tour and
produced by the team that made those
amusing American Express ads with
the former king of Thursday night TV,
Comedian hits Detroit on Friday, Oct.
25. It provides an inside look at what
has become, in his years away from
the small screen, the Seinfeld mys-
tique.
The 48-year-old Seinfeld, who last
performed in Detroit just over a year
ago, returns to the Fox Theatre for
three shows Oct. 25-26. He has spent
his post-Seinfild years becoming the
happily married man and father his
commitment-phobic TV alter ego
could never be. Seinfeld married
Jessica Sklar in 1999. They are
expecting their second child this
spring.
This is not to say that Seinfeld has
a partner in Creative Domain and heads
up marketing initiatives.
"My mom was incredibly excited for
us and reminded me how we used to
help her memorize lines."
Kind Of Crazy
Kulukundis found the non-actors by
word of mouth with some of those
words spoken by Aaron Weinberg,
brother of Spector and Weinberg.
Three Spector children — Mason,
Isaac and Lola — also were filmed for
the scene.
"I went to meet with these two sis-
ters and in talking, discovered they
had two cousins (in California),"
Kulukundis says. "So, of the seven sis-
ters in the film, six are non-actors and
four are related. It was kind of crazy,
especially given that we asked some of
the women to bring their husbands
along, but they all jelled perfectly.
"Paul didn't want to hire actors
because he wanted to capture the raw
awkwardness of family, where people
nag and talk over each other and don't
wait for their cues."
Mia Weinberg, 34 and single, didn't
know quite what to expect, but she
was glad to be with family and have
an assigned trailer during the time the
film was made. She said she was
starstruck during the whole experi-
ence and was happy to watch Emily
Watson as co-star in the project that
later would bring Anderson recogni-
tion as best director at the 2002
Cannes Film Festival.
lost any of the neuroses that made his
series one of the greatest comedies in
television history. Rather, he has
expanded his repertoire and used his
latest life experiences to create an
entirely new standup routine.
The old foibles are still there, bol-
stered by a passel of new observations
on the inherent absurdity in pretty
much anything we do. Even during
the "Must See TV" years, Seinfeld
never forgot his standup roots — just
look at the intro-outro sequences of
many a Seinfeld episode. Standup,
with a soundtrack and commercials.
The gestation and constant evolu-
tion of that new routine is chronicled
in Comedian, which follows Seinfeld
as he builds and hones his act leading
up to and during his 2000 comedy
tour. While the film contains snippets
of Seinfeld's stage show, Comedian is
less concert film and more behind-
the-scenes musing. Think Madonna's
Truth or Dare, but with less sexual