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is to have the Producer's and Director's visions up on the screen...!" - - Badger |
Badger in I'm Not Rappaport: |
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In the summer of 1995 I did my first real work as background in the Universal film version of I'm Not Rappaport which was originally scheduled to be released November 1995. Now it was to be widely released January 24, 1997, but it never was. The film remained in obscurity in very few theatres, and may only become well known if it does well on video and/or cable. Interestingly enough, the cinematographer for Rappaport was Adam Holender, who was cinematographer for A Price Below Rubies.
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I am in the re-enactment of the 1907 NYC Garment District Union Strike Vote Meeting (the film's opening scene). At one point co-star Walter Matthau (since deceased, June 30, 2000) did his lines about ten feet away from me (Matthau's bits for the scene are not used, surprisingly). Upon viewing it on Encore on cable (the film is available on video), I found myself very visible as the scene opens the film. I am seen as a little blur in the background as the girl walks down the aisle but there I am as I/we begin to stand to take the "old Hebrew oath:" a very clear shot of me taking up the right side of the screen (probably would be even better were it letterbox format). |
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As it was, in the completed film instead of being a flashback, the scene stands alone and Matthau is not in the sequence. The other Rappaport co-star (who was not there for that scene that day) is Ossie Davis. Several weeks earlier I had met his son Guy Davis, AMS Video having been hired to video tape his powerful one-man stage show In Bed With The Blues: The Adventures of Fishy Waters. |
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