It's not the thing.....
"Celebrated playwright Israel Horovitz directs first movie" by Ty Burr | Globe Staff August 30, 2014
Israel Horovitz’s summer home on East Gloucester’s Beacon Hill doesn’t look like the palace of a celebrated playwright. Built around 1829, it feels like the funky fisherman’s cottage it probably was. A 1980 Fiat convertible, once bright yellow and now a faded lemon, sits in the driveway. The license plate -- “AUTHOR” -- is the only sign of a creative mind at work.
Horovitz, 75, also has an apartment in New York’s West Village where he lives much of the year. He spends four months in France, where he holds the record as the most-produced American playwright in the country’s history. He has written more than 70 works for the stage, won two Obies, and was named a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. He has written a celebrated cycle of plays set in Boston’s blue-collar North Shore towns and produced many of them at the theater company he founded 35 years ago in Gloucester. His son, Adam Horovitz, was a Beastie Boy. His daughter Rachael produced “Moneyball” and “About Schmidt”. What hasn’t Horovitz done?
Direct a feature film. Until now.
With the world premiere of “My Old Lady” at the Toronto International Film festival on Sept. 7, the Wakefield-born Horovitz takes a big item off his bucket list....
Same here!
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Yeah, they "love him everywhere," sigh.
Honestly, have nothing against him but....
