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In her final interview with Gold Derby just months before her death, the stage and screen star looked back at her storied career.

Linda Lavin, best known for playing the title role in Alice, died Dec. 29 at the age of 87 following a battle with lung cancer. Based on Martin Scorsese‘s 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the CBS sitcom ran for nine seasons from 1976 to 1985. Lavin was nominated for an Emmy in 1979 and earned two Golden Globes for her role as the working single mother who makes ends meet as a waitress at a diner in Arizona.

In June, following a guest appearance on CBS’ Elsbeth, Lavin reflected on her long career on screen and stage in an exclusive interview with Gold Derby, describing Alice as “like a dream.”

“My life had fallen apart, my first marriage was falling apart, and I was starting a new job,” the actress...

Alan Arkin’s Little Murders, Arkin’s stunning 1971 feature directorial debut, based on the stage play of the same name by Jules Feiffer, is a dark and merciless examination of paranoia and urban horror that inspires stunned, uncomfortable laughter from viewers. Indeed, how can someone laugh after watching someone indiscriminately shoot people to death with a rifle from an apartment window, and what does it say about a person who would laugh at such a scene?

A forerunner of such New York-based urban terror films as After Hours, Cruising, Death Wish, and Taxi Driver, Little Murders stands apart from these later films by presenting a portrait of a New York that is as much gripped by a reign of apathy as terror.

As the director, Arkin, who also appears in the film as an emotionally-damaged police lieutenant, portrays New York as a hopeless and masochistic state of badly-timed power outages,...

Alan Arkin, the Academy Award-winning actor known for his roles in films including Little Miss Sunshine, Argo, Catch-22, and Glengarry Glen Ross, has died at the age of 89.

Arkin passed away on Thursday, June 29th at his home in California. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed,” his sons said in a statement.

Born March 26th, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Arkin began taking acting lessons at the age of 10 and studied at multiple drama academies before making his 1957 feature film acting debut in the musical Calypso Heat Wave. After a few TV cameos, he made his Broadway debut in 1961 with From the Second City.

A star turn in 1963’s Enter Laughing earned Arkin the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, which he...

The blackest of black comedies confronts us with an urban worst case scenario — Jules Feiffer’s ‘social horror’ movie is like a sitcom in Hell, with citizens numbed and trembling over the unending meaningless violence. What was nasty satire in 1971 now plays like the 6 o’clock news. Too radical for its time, Feiffer and director Alan Arkin’s picture is more painfully funny, and frightening, than ever.

Little Murders

Region B Blu-ray

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1971 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 110 min. / Street Date April 30, 2017 / Available from Amazon UK £22.99

Starring: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Jon Korkes, John Randolph, Doris Roberts, Lou Jacobi, Donald Sutherland, Alan Arkin, Martin Kove.

Cinematography: Gordon Willis

Film Editor: Howard Kuperman

Production Design: Gene Rudolf

Original Music: Fred Kaz

Written by Jules Feiffer from his play

Produced by Jack Brodsky (and Elliott Gould)

Directed by Alan Arkin

Little Murders was one of the first new...

James Dybas will join the cast of the hit Baby Boomer musical revue "Don't Leave It All To Your Children! on July 1st, subbing for Ronnie Schell who is taking a leave to fulfill some concert engagements. Ronnie will re-join the cast in early fall. Mr. Dybas joins Barbara Minkus (Picon Pie), Marcia Rodd (The Last of the Red Hot Lovers) and Steve Rossi (of Allen & Rossi) in the revue written and directed by Saul Ilson (The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour) with musical staging by Rudy Tronto.

The new Baby Boomer musical comedy revue, "Don't Leave It All To Your Children!", written and directed by Saul Ilson will begin previews on Wednesday, May 6th at 3 Pm at off-Broadway's Actors Temple Theatre, 339 West 47th Street. The revue stars stars Barbara Minkus ("Picon Pie"), Marcia Rodd ("The Last of the Red Hot Lovers"), Steve Rossi (of Allen & Rossi) and Ronnie Schell (Gomer Pyle). Musical numbers will be staged by Rudy Tronto.

A new musical comedy revue, "Don't Leave It All To Your Children!", written and directed by Saul Ilson and starring Barbara Minkus ("Picon Pie"), Marcia Rodd ("The Last of the Red Hot Lovers"), Steve Rossi (of Allen & Rossi) and Ronnie Schell (Gomer Pyle), will make its New York debut on Wednesday, May 6th at off-Broadway's Actors Temple Theatre, 339 West 47th Street, NYC. Musical numbers will be staged by Rudy Tronto.