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...Perelman's private screening room...
...blown out all those candles for deceased artistes Marlene Dietrich, Richard Rodgers, Ogden Nash, Cornell Woolrich, S.J. Perelman and Ted ?Dr. Seuss? Geisel. Two more honorees, Leni Riefenstahl and Bob Hope, were still alive when they got reached triple digits, though they have since ceded to mortality. I used to unearth these milestones only when I?d hear of some media cross-promotion - a tributary rivulet of books, CDs or DVDs - which often meant playing hectic catch-up. Now I go to the Internet Movie Database at the start of a year and see whose centenaries are imminent. (Click...
...Geisel had been back in New York for only a year before he got a job with Judge, the top humor magazine of a decade rich in them. S.J. Perelman, a month and a day older, was there at the same time, and the two men have similar profiles. Both were Ivy Leaguers who had edited their college humor publications (Perelman's, at Brown, was the Brown Jug); both made their names first as cartoonists at Judge and another popular gag mag, Life (pre-Luce); both branched out to movie work and books. One difference: Perelman went to live...
...steps of Rockefeller Center in New York City weren't sure who he was. That imperial nose, the batwing ears, those bore- into-your-soul eyes ... "You're a movie star, right?" they asked. Ben Kingsley smiled and quietly replied, "Yes." Their confusion didn't surprise Vadim Perelman, who directed Kingsley's new film, House of Sand and Fog, and was with him at the time. Over the past 40 years, the British actor has morphed into many larger-than-life figures - Moses, Hamlet, Gandhi. "He embodies his characters," says Perelman. Ben Kingsley disappears, and another man comes to life...
...comic writing, The New Yorker had the edge with (to choose four names spanning seven decades) S.J. Perelman, Woody Allen, Bruce McCall and Steve Martin. But I had a fondness for Playboy?s comedy stars - Jean Shepherd, Harvey Kurtzman, Jules Feiffer, Lenny Bruce, Arnold Roth, Shel Silverstein - in part because I?d followed and loved their earlier work from, respectively, WOR radio, Mad, the Village Voice, Fantasy LPs, Humbug and Look. They were the guys I?d have chosen if I were Playboy?s humor editor. (In which case, I?d have dropped the designation of ?humor? heading each piece...