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Rosé pri hagafen, everybody. “Wine Country,” a mid-life crisis comedy starring Jewish actresses Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolph, as well as Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer and Paula Pell, dropped on Netflix on Friday, like the Shabbat Bride alighting. The bad news: Reviews suggest that this will not be the next “Bridesmaids.” The good…
Amy Poehler. Maya Rudolph. Tina Fey. Rachel Dratch. Paula Pell. Ana Gasteyer. Emily Spivey. These are seven of the funniest people alive. They all happen to be women. They all happen to be in their 40’s and 50’s. They all happen to be best friends. And they are making a movie. If you aren’t screaming,…
Julie Klausner greets me with a enthusiastic “Shabbat Shalom!” when she answers the phone. The 37-year-old comedian and creator of the new Hulu comedy series ‘Difficult People,’ is mid-way through a whirlwind press tour when we connect, and her sense of humor is firmly intact. When I begin by asking for her thoughts on being…
Amy Poehler may play Joy in Pixar’s ‘Inside Out,’ but there’s nothing happy about the teaser for her new show. “Difficult People,” which will premiere on Hulu on August 5, shows New Yorkers at their worst. The teaser stars Billy Eichner and Julie Klauser as the worst funeral guests ever — they’re loud, obnoxious, without any…
Pretty much every profile of Matthew Weiner has his professional history down pat. A writer for TV’s “Becker,” he penned a spec script about a 1960s ad agency that caught the eye of David Chase. Chase hired him first as a writer and then as a producer of “The Sopranos.” Several years later, Weiner shopped…
