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Lerner said he held the cigarette with both hands. A longtime cigar aficionado, Lerner felt out of his depths when he was asked to smoke a cigarette in a scene with Nicholson in a jail. In 1981, he was cast in Bob Rafelson’s remake of “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” alongside Jack Nicholson, who he called one of the most generous actors he’d ever worked with, and Jessica Lange.

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But he considered his first significant role to be in the television movie “Ruby and Oswald” (he played Jack Ruby) with Brian Dennehy. He started getting cast in television shows, including “M*A*S*H,” “The Brady Bunch” and “The Rockford Files,” making his film debut in Paul Mazursky’s “Alex in Wonderland,” alongside Charlotte Rampling. Lerner moved to Los Angeles in 1969, at the urging of an agent who saw his work at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. RIP Michael, enjoy your unlimited Cuban cigars, comfy chairs, and endless movie marathon.”īorn in 1941 to Romanian-Jewish parents and raised in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood, Michael Lerner began acting locally as a teen and into his days at Brooklyn College, where he got the chance to play Willie Loman in “Death of a Salesman.” His ambitions to pursue acting professionally crystalized when he received a Fulbright Scholarship and chose to study theater at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, where he lived in an apartment with Yoko Ono for a time, appearing in her short film “Smile.” His brother, Ken Lerner, also became an actor. “Everyone that knows him knows how insane he was - in the best way.we’re all lucky we can continue to watch his work for the rest of time. “He was the coolest, most confident, talented guy,” Sam Lerner wrote. Neither his nor Michael Lerner’s representatives immediately responded to requests for further comment. Sam Lerner wrote that his uncle died Saturday but did not provide further details. His nephew, actor Sam Lerner, announced his death in an Instagram post Sunday. I have decided after a slew of Coen Brothers films I currently have in my collection, that any project these guys are involved with deserve more than passing scrutiny.(AP) - Michael Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in “Barton Fink,” the crooked club owner Bugsy Calhoun in “Harlem Nights” and an angry publishing executive in “Elf” has died. Excellent performances from John Turturo, John Goodman, Judy Davis, John Polito (often overlooked, but his scenes ALWAYS become his!!) and the inimitable Tony Shaloub. The trouble with Barton, however, is he does not have time for the common man because he has so romanticized their lot as well as his particular quest in speaking for them.

After much cajoling to take the job from his agent, Barton arrives in Los Angeles determined to become the writer for the common man where he insists true stories live.

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John Goodman perfectly sums up everyone's frustration with Barton Fink when after a series of unfortunate occurrences, Barton asks him 'Why me?' to which John's character answers 'Because you don't LISTEN!' Set in 1930s Hollywood we follow the exploits of a one-hit wonder, Barton Fink, who has written a successful Broadway play and is summoned by the powers that be to Hollywood. He is so idealistic that he misses fantastic opportunities to become a writer for the ages because he wastes precious time proselytizing. He is so taken with the fact that he is a writer that he can't write. Barton Fink quite simply is a writer who cannot see the forest for the trees. I recently purchased 'Barton Fink' along with 'Miller's Crossinhg', another Coen Brothers gem.

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