After battling a long illness, writer-director Paul Mazursky died in Los Angeles on June 30 of pulmonary cardiac arrest. He was 84. Luckily for me, some years ago my friend Joan Cohen pulled me into an annual dinner party held around the time of the Oscars with Paul and Betsy Mazursky and other close friends. I looked forward to it every year, as Mazursky would hold forth--hilariously-- on Hollywood, moviemaking, and the new films of the day, which he wrote about for Vanity Fair in recent years. He was an ardent cinephile and Academy voter with strongly held opinions. At the time of his La Film Critics Award (followed by many others including a WGA achievement award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame), the director, who until recently hung out with his screenwriter pals at the Farmer's Market every week, met with me at his office in Beverly Hills...
- 7/1/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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