Common Ground's 41st Annual

Birmingham
Street Art Fair

September 19 & 20

Saturday, 10am – 6pm & Sunday, 10am – 5pm

On Old Woodward in the heart
of downtown Birmingham

150 jury-selected artists • Free admission

Kids' art activities with the DIA

Annual Art Auction that supports Common Ground's
mission to help people move from crisis to hope

"Bob" De Niro on set with Zack Pearlman

clothes and messy hair, and I was fre-
quently tired from the night before.
"Adam's [DeVine] character's name
is Jason, and I remember thinking
wouldn't it be cool to tell my friends
the kid in the script is named Jason.
Obviously, it went beyond that:'
Pearlman, on the other hand,
launched his acting career in 2010
with a leading role in the movie The
Virginity Hit, a documentary-style
comedy co-produced by Will Ferrell
and Adam McKay.
Then an aspiring comedian and
actor with no Hollywood experience,
Pearlman submitted an entry for a
contest through the popular website
Funny or Die. The contest winner
would have the opportunity to audi-
tion for a role in a film.
Based on Pearlman's entry, he was
offered the audition if he could get to
New York in two days. He spent the
remainder of his bar mitzvah money
getting there. When the agency called
him back, he says he assumed it was
because he left something at the audi-
tion. He returned to Michigan and
heard nothing for two weeks. Around
the same time, he and his father,
Mark Pearlman, an OB-GYN in Ann
Arbor, had an intense discussion about
Pearlman's future.
"It felt like a scene from a movie
where my dad and I were having this
argument in a parked car. My dad was
saying, 'You need to figure out what
you're doing with your life: It was so
heated that I started crying and then, in
the perfect moment, I got a phone call
from California saying they wanted to
fly me out for a final audition [for The

Virginity Hit]
Although the film received poor
reviews, it launched Pearlman's career.
Subsequently, while working with
Martin Short on the FOX show Mulaney,
Pearlman learned, through Short, that
Meyers was looking for young comedi-
ans for The Intern.
Orley and Pearlman first met at a

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reading of the script at Tribeca Grill, a
New York City restaurant part-owned
by De Niro. Everyone had the part
except for Orley. This would be his
final audition.
"I think they wanted to see if I was
going to freeze up sitting around the
table with all these actors because I was
not an actor; Orley says.
Both Orley and Pearlman say they
return to Michigan as often as they can
because each has family here. Pearlman
says he wants to get home more to visit
his 10-month-old nephew.
In California, Pearlman likes to sport
a "Detroit vs. Everybody" shirt because
"I'm really proud to be from Michigan.
I have such great memories of Detroit
from when I was growing up:'
Some of those memories include visit-
ing his Bubbie and Zaydie in Oak Park,
going to Tigers and Red Wings games
and the zoo as well as some of the city's
musical venues like the Magic Bag and
St. Andrew's Hall.
Pearlman will return home to Ann
Arbor for a premiere party for The
Intern, which his parents, Mark and
Susan, are hosting as a fundraiser for the
Kathy A. Janssen Foundation; money
raised will help establish an endow-
ment in breast cancer research at the
University of Michigan Hospital.
Orley's parents, Marcie and Rob,
live in Franklin. He also is the grand-
son of Doreen Hermelin and the late
Ambassador David Hermelin. When
Orley got the part, he and Meyers
called his parents together to deliver
the good news.
"I am in awe of how insane this
whole thing is," says a humbled
Orley. "Acting was never even on my
radar. Writing was part of my plan
— that's why I worked for Nancy. A
lot of actors would kill for this type
of thing; especially seeing how hard
Zack and Adam work as actors.
"I still don't really know how this
happened. It's all so surreal:'

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