Brad Silberling heard the terrible news from a police detective the morning of July 18, 1989. His 21-year-old girlfriend, actress Rebecca Schaeffer (TV\’s \”My Sister Sam\”) had been shot dead by a stalker in the foyer of her Sweetzer Avenue apartment building.
\nIn between schmoozing with kids for his acclaimed Fairfax High documentary \”Senior Year\” in 1998, filmmaker David Zeiger hung out with the funny old guys who did lunch with his dad on Tuesdays at the Mulholland Tennis Club.
Two Jewish pioneers of the popular culture, comedian Milton Berle and director Billy Wilder, died last week in Los Angeles.
For filmmaker Sandi Simcha DuBowski, \”Trembling Before G-d\” isn\’t just a documentary, it\’s a revolutionary movement.
Steven Spielberg has inspired dozens of biographies, none of them written with the filmmaker\’s consent.
Elizabeth Berkley\’s audition with filmmaker Woody Allen for a part in his latest comedy, "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion," resembled a scene out of an "I Love Lucy" episode.
Filmmaker Pola Rapaport grew up in a family of secrets.\n\nHer psychiatrist father never spoke of his life before meeting Pola\’s mother. He never spoke of his family. He never mentioned that he was Jewish, though Pola figured that out when he took her to Yom Kippur services when she was 10. And just before he died of cancer in 1972 — Pola was then 16 — his last words to his wife were, \”Be discreet.\”
\”Great-grandma was a naughty girl,\” says British filmmaker Ben Hopkins, whose feature debut, \”Simon Magus,\” is the tale of a Polish shtetl in peril.
Legendary filmmaker Stanley Earl Kramer, best known for films such as the classic western \”High Noon,\” died on Feb. 19 of pneumonia. He was 87.
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai will direct a novice actor in his next movie. He is playwright Arthur Miller, better known as the author of \”Death of a Salesman,\” \”The Crucible\” and numerous other dramas.
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