13. Awards Season 1984 “The Oscar nominations are out and Barbra Streisand didn’t get any. Today she found out the true meaning of ‘The Big Chill’.” Johnny Carson That big creep. Awards Season 1984 started out more than promisingly enough. I remember a lot of it and I have forgotten most of it. It’s hard…
12. A Very ‘Yentl’ Christmas Christmas 1983 was very exciting. ‘Yentl’ was playing to packed houses in New York and around the country, it was my first Christmas in my first apartment, Mrs. Helmsley gave all her employees a free turkey – what could be better? Well I couldn’t very well let a free turkey…
11. ‘Yentl’ I was in a much better frame of mind Friday morning. My “at movie” eating habits had changed in the ten years since ‘The Way We Were’. Long before ‘no butter’ became a cliché I had been eating my popcorn without butter and salt. Jeffrey Rindler was as nervous as I had been…
10. ‘Yentl’: Opening Day at the Ziegfeld Theatre, New York City I first met Jeffrey Rindler in February 1980. We were both students of the dramatic arts studying at HB Studios on Bank Street. I was not enjoying myself. I didn’t go there to learn, I went there to meet people in show business. I…
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