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Barney Balaban
Barney Balaban (June 8, 1887 – March 7, 1971) was the son of Bessarabian Jewish emigrants who was president of Paramount Pictures from 1936 to 1964, and innovator in the cinema industry.
Life and career
The eldest of the seven sons of Bessarabian Jewish immigrants Augusta "Gussie" (née Mendeburskey) and grocery store owner Israel Balaban, Barney worked as a messenger boy and a cold storage company employee until 1908, when he was persuaded, at age 21, to go into the cinema business. According to a 1945 article in Forbes magazine, his mother came home from her first picture show and commented, "The customers pay before they even see what they're paying for! There'll be money in that business."
Balaban and his younger brothers rented the 100-seat Kedzie Theater. From there, Balaban's innovations changed the industry. In 1910, Balaban built the Circle Theatre, the first cinema to have a balcony. After his sister Ida married Sam Katz, the two brothers-in-law made plans for a chain of cinemas in the Midwest, the Balaban and Katz Theatre Chain. Barney's brothers John, Dave, Abe (aka A. J.), and Max all worked for Balaban and Katz. Brothers Elmer and Harry owned their own theater concern called H & E Balaban.
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Stories of Ukrainian Jews. Barney Balaban
For all the popularity of cinema at the beginning of the twentieth century, revenues of movie theaters depended for a long time on the year season. In summer, no matter how good the movie was, attracting spectators to watch it was an impossible task due to the stuffy heat in the hall. Barney Balaban and his brother-in-law Sam Katz figured out how to win back patrons. They used powerful fans blowing over cakes of ice in washtubs to keep them pleasantly cool. However, their invention had one significant flaw: as the ice melted, the air currents turned from a refreshing breeze into a shower, therefore, by their order, the engineers created an industrial system that blew dry cooled air. It was in 1917, and the Balaban & Katz Theater Chain became the first air-conditioned theaters in the world,...
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Barney Balaban and Midnight Cowboy
In episode seven of TCM's Moguls and Movie Stars, Bob Balaban recalls the reaction of his uncle, longtime Paramount executive Barney Balaban, to his performance in Midnight Cowboy.
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Horacio the handsnake - Barney Balaban
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The Story of Balaban and Katz documentary interview excerpts produced by David Lee Balaban
The Story of Balaban and Katz documentary interview excerpts from upcoming film produced by David Balaban
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Bob Balaban tells us what he can about the new Wes Anderson and learning “Smelly Cat” on the fly
Bob Balaban was born into the movie business: His uncles owned the Balaban And Katz Theater group in Chicago, which ran both the massive Chicago and Uptown Theaters as movie palaces, and one of them, Barney Balaban, was the president of Paramount Pictures at the time of Bob’s birth. Bob Balaban’s father, Elmer, owned theaters like the Esquire in Chicago as well, and would later become one of the early players in the cable television game. Bob Balaban has been active in television and film since he was 20, when he first popped up on a 1965 episode of Hank, a show about a college lunch wagon operator who sits in on classes in the hopes of getting a little smarter. Balaban also appeared in 1969’s Midnight Cowboy and 1970’s Catch-22 before taking on roles both on-screen and in the writers roo...
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Exploring Waldheim Cemetery
Today's adventure takes us west of Chicago to Forest Park, Illinois and to Waldheim Cemetery. This Jewish cemetery is enormous with well over 100,000 graves. We'll explore the graves of Clara Peller, the "Where's the beef" lady from the 1980's Wendy' s commercials, Barney Balaban, pioneer of movie houses and President of Paramount Pictures, Eddie Shwartz, Chicago radio legend, Samuel "Nails" Morton, WWI war hero turned gangster, and Michael Todd, Acadamy Award winner and ex-husband of Elizabeth Taylor. We have a lot to find today so come join me as we explore Waldheim Cemetery.
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A Mighty Wind (7/10) Movie CLIP - Stagecraft 101 (2003) HD
A Mighty Wind movie clips: http://j.mp/1BcUJak BUY THE MOVIE: http://j.mp/QXN3jr Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Jonathan (Bob Balaban) harasses Lawrence (Michael Hitchcock) about some minor details before the concert. FILM DESCRIPTION: The writing and directing team who created Waiting For Guffman and Best In Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to nurture the careers of three of the best known acts of the era. The Folksmen -- Mark Shubb (Harry Shearer), Alan Barrows (Christopher Guest), and Jerry Palter (Michael McKean) -- were an earnest folk trio who sang of Amer...
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Moonrise Kingdom - Bob Balaban introducing Bill Murray on the set of Moonrise Kingdom!
Great clip of Bob Balaban introducing Bill Murray on the set of Moonrise Kingdom! Be sure to grab your copy on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on October 16.
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Edward Norton and Bob Balaban talk 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Edward Norton and Bob Balaban are both excited to be part of the fantasy world of Wes Anderson. Norton talks about the importance of family and community in the movie, while Balaban explains his role as the narator in the film. Find out what's next on http://www.hitfix.com and subscribe to our YouTube channel
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Stories of Ukrainian Jews. Barney Balaban
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For all the popularity of cinema at the beginning of the twentieth century, revenues of movie theaters depended for a long time on the year season. In summer, n...
For all the popularity of cinema at the beginning of the twentieth century, revenues of movie theaters depended for a long time on the year season. In summer, no matter how good the movie was, attracting spectators to watch it was an impossible task due to the stuffy heat in the hall.
Barney Balaban and his brother-in-law Sam Katz figured out how to win back patrons. They used powerful fans blowing over cakes of ice in washtubs to keep them pleasantly cool. However, their invention had one significant flaw: as the ice melted, the air currents turned from a refreshing breeze into a shower, therefore, by their order, the engineers created an industrial system that blew dry cooled air.
It was in 1917, and the Balaban & Katz Theater Chain became the first air-conditioned theaters in the world, and Barney Balaban was later invited to head the Paramount Pictures film company, which he had been running for nearly 30 years.
Barney's younger brother, A.J., has also contributed to the increase in theaters attendance. He proposed and organized performances of orchestras in the foyer and turned film screenings into real shows. Although this practice is used today only at pre-premiere screenings, until the end of the last century, performances of musical bands in cinemas were commonplace.
When television broadcasting began to develop, the Balaban brothers took part also in this direction. They were among the first to establish cable broadcasting networks.
Today, the youngest of the Balaban dynasty, Bob, is a successful Hollywood actor, director and screenwriter. It all began at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when parents of the future innovators of show business moved to the United States from Odessa and opened a grocery store in Chicago, wrote Boris Lozhkin on Facebook.
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For all the popularity of cinema at the beginning of the twentieth century, revenues of movie theaters depended for a long time on the year season. In summer, no matter how good the movie was, attracting spectators to watch it was an impossible task due to the stuffy heat in the hall.
Barney Balaban and his brother-in-law Sam Katz figured out how to win back patrons. They used powerful fans blowing over cakes of ice in washtubs to keep them pleasantly cool. However, their invention had one significant flaw: as the ice melted, the air currents turned from a refreshing breeze into a shower, therefore, by their order, the engineers created an industrial system that blew dry cooled air.
It was in 1917, and the Balaban & Katz Theater Chain became the first air-conditioned theaters in the world, and Barney Balaban was later invited to head the Paramount Pictures film company, which he had been running for nearly 30 years.
Barney's younger brother, A.J., has also contributed to the increase in theaters attendance. He proposed and organized performances of orchestras in the foyer and turned film screenings into real shows. Although this practice is used today only at pre-premiere screenings, until the end of the last century, performances of musical bands in cinemas were commonplace.
When television broadcasting began to develop, the Balaban brothers took part also in this direction. They were among the first to establish cable broadcasting networks.
Today, the youngest of the Balaban dynasty, Bob, is a successful Hollywood actor, director and screenwriter. It all began at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when parents of the future innovators of show business moved to the United States from Odessa and opened a grocery store in Chicago, wrote Boris Lozhkin on Facebook.
https://borislozhkin.org/
https://www.facebook.com/boris.lozhkin.7
https://twitter.com/lozhkin_boris
https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-lozhkin-47253337/
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Barney Balaban and Midnight Cowboy
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In episode seven of TCM's Moguls and Movie Stars, Bob Balaban recalls the reaction of his uncle, longtime Paramount executive Barney Balaban, to his performance...
In episode seven of TCM's Moguls and Movie Stars, Bob Balaban recalls the reaction of his uncle, longtime Paramount executive Barney Balaban, to his performance in Midnight Cowboy.
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In episode seven of TCM's Moguls and Movie Stars, Bob Balaban recalls the reaction of his uncle, longtime Paramount executive Barney Balaban, to his performance in Midnight Cowboy.
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How to pronounce Barney Balaban (American English/US) - PronounceNames.com
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Horacio the handsnake - Barney Balaban
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The Story of Balaban and Katz documentary interview excerpts produced by David Lee Balaban
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The Story of Balaban and Katz documentary interview excerpts from upcoming film produced by David Balaban
The Story of Balaban and Katz documentary interview excerpts from upcoming film produced by David Balaban
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The Story of Balaban and Katz documentary interview excerpts from upcoming film produced by David Balaban
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Bob Balaban tells us what he can about the new Wes Anderson and learning “Smelly Cat” on the fly
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Bob Balaban was born into the movie business: His uncles owned the Balaban And Katz Theater group in Chicago, which ran both the massive Chicago and Uptown Thea...
Bob Balaban was born into the movie business: His uncles owned the Balaban And Katz Theater group in Chicago, which ran both the massive Chicago and Uptown Theaters as movie palaces, and one of them, Barney Balaban, was the president of Paramount Pictures at the time of Bob’s birth. Bob Balaban’s father, Elmer, owned theaters like the Esquire in Chicago as well, and would later become one of the early players in the cable television game.
Bob Balaban has been active in television and film since he was 20, when he first popped up on a 1965 episode of Hank, a show about a college lunch wagon operator who sits in on classes in the hopes of getting a little smarter. Balaban also appeared in 1969’s Midnight Cowboy and 1970’s Catch-22 before taking on roles both on-screen and in the writers room on shows like Maude. He’s since gone on to write movies like 2001’s Gosford Park, and direct everything from episodes of Eerie, Indiana to Nurse Jackie and Strangers With Candy. We talked to him on the set of Condor, a fascinating TV thriller adapted from the novel Six Days Of The Condor by James Grady. The show originally premiered on the Audience Network, but its second season is currently in streaming limbo, but will hopefully find a place to land later this year.
Though we’ve talked with Balaban before for a Random Roles feature, it’s been a few years, and we thought it would be fun to get some of his remembrances on camera. You can read Sam Adams’ 2012 interview with Balaban here, and check out our more recent talk below. Some highlights from the latest interview can be found in the video above.
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Bob Balaban was born into the movie business: His uncles owned the Balaban And Katz Theater group in Chicago, which ran both the massive Chicago and Uptown Theaters as movie palaces, and one of them, Barney Balaban, was the president of Paramount Pictures at the time of Bob’s birth. Bob Balaban’s father, Elmer, owned theaters like the Esquire in Chicago as well, and would later become one of the early players in the cable television game.
Bob Balaban has been active in television and film since he was 20, when he first popped up on a 1965 episode of Hank, a show about a college lunch wagon operator who sits in on classes in the hopes of getting a little smarter. Balaban also appeared in 1969’s Midnight Cowboy and 1970’s Catch-22 before taking on roles both on-screen and in the writers room on shows like Maude. He’s since gone on to write movies like 2001’s Gosford Park, and direct everything from episodes of Eerie, Indiana to Nurse Jackie and Strangers With Candy. We talked to him on the set of Condor, a fascinating TV thriller adapted from the novel Six Days Of The Condor by James Grady. The show originally premiered on the Audience Network, but its second season is currently in streaming limbo, but will hopefully find a place to land later this year.
Though we’ve talked with Balaban before for a Random Roles feature, it’s been a few years, and we thought it would be fun to get some of his remembrances on camera. You can read Sam Adams’ 2012 interview with Balaban here, and check out our more recent talk below. Some highlights from the latest interview can be found in the video above.
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- published: 02 Jun 2020
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Exploring Waldheim Cemetery
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Today's adventure takes us west of Chicago to Forest Park, Illinois and to Waldheim Cemetery. This Jewish cemetery is enormous with well over 100,000 graves. ...
Today's adventure takes us west of Chicago to Forest Park, Illinois and to Waldheim Cemetery. This Jewish cemetery is enormous with well over 100,000 graves. We'll explore the graves of Clara Peller, the "Where's the beef" lady from the 1980's Wendy' s commercials, Barney Balaban, pioneer of movie houses and President of Paramount Pictures, Eddie Shwartz, Chicago radio legend, Samuel "Nails" Morton, WWI war hero turned gangster, and Michael Todd, Acadamy Award winner and ex-husband of Elizabeth Taylor. We have a lot to find today so come join me as we explore Waldheim Cemetery.
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Today's adventure takes us west of Chicago to Forest Park, Illinois and to Waldheim Cemetery. This Jewish cemetery is enormous with well over 100,000 graves. We'll explore the graves of Clara Peller, the "Where's the beef" lady from the 1980's Wendy' s commercials, Barney Balaban, pioneer of movie houses and President of Paramount Pictures, Eddie Shwartz, Chicago radio legend, Samuel "Nails" Morton, WWI war hero turned gangster, and Michael Todd, Acadamy Award winner and ex-husband of Elizabeth Taylor. We have a lot to find today so come join me as we explore Waldheim Cemetery.
- published: 05 Feb 2023
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A Mighty Wind (7/10) Movie CLIP - Stagecraft 101 (2003) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Jonathan (Bob Balaban) harasses Lawrence (Michael Hitchcock) about some minor details before the concert.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
The writing and directing team who created Waiting For Guffman and Best In Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to nurture the careers of three of the best known acts of the era. The Folksmen -- Mark Shubb (Harry Shearer), Alan Barrows (Christopher Guest), and Jerry Palter (Michael McKean) -- were an earnest folk trio who sang of America's noble past and the challenges of the future; they split up in the early '70s after a failed attempt to go electric. Mitch & Mickey were a duo in both music and life, comprised of Mitch Cohen (Eugene Levy) and Mickey Devlin (Catherine O'Hara). They sang soulful songs of love until the collapse of their relationship sent Mitch into a deep and incapacitating depression. And The Main Street Singers were a nine-piece vocal group -- a "neuftet," as they prefer it -- who offered energetic good-time music, cranking out nearly 30 albums in the course of a decade; their current incarnation, The New Main Street Singers (played by Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, John Michael Higgins, David Alan Blasucci, Steve Pandis, Christopher Moynihan, Paul Dooley and Patrick Sauber) is still on the road. When it is announced that the legendary Irving Steinbloom has died (the character never appears in the film), his son Jonathan (Bob Balaban) decides that the best way to memorialize his father is through music, and with the help of Mike LaFontaine (Fred Willard) of Hi-Class Management, they set out to bring The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey, and The New Main Street Singers back together for a special concert at New York's Town Hall. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer -- who previously teamed up for This Is Spinal Tap -- not only perform together as The Folksmen in A Mighty Wind, but composed most of the songs performed onscreen.
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Cast: Bob Balaban, Michael Hitchcock
Director: Christopher Guest
Producers: Donna E. Bloom, Karen Murphy
Screenwriters: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Jonathan (Bob Balaban) harasses Lawrence (Michael Hitchcock) about some minor details before the concert.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
The writing and directing team who created Waiting For Guffman and Best In Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to nurture the careers of three of the best known acts of the era. The Folksmen -- Mark Shubb (Harry Shearer), Alan Barrows (Christopher Guest), and Jerry Palter (Michael McKean) -- were an earnest folk trio who sang of America's noble past and the challenges of the future; they split up in the early '70s after a failed attempt to go electric. Mitch & Mickey were a duo in both music and life, comprised of Mitch Cohen (Eugene Levy) and Mickey Devlin (Catherine O'Hara). They sang soulful songs of love until the collapse of their relationship sent Mitch into a deep and incapacitating depression. And The Main Street Singers were a nine-piece vocal group -- a "neuftet," as they prefer it -- who offered energetic good-time music, cranking out nearly 30 albums in the course of a decade; their current incarnation, The New Main Street Singers (played by Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, John Michael Higgins, David Alan Blasucci, Steve Pandis, Christopher Moynihan, Paul Dooley and Patrick Sauber) is still on the road. When it is announced that the legendary Irving Steinbloom has died (the character never appears in the film), his son Jonathan (Bob Balaban) decides that the best way to memorialize his father is through music, and with the help of Mike LaFontaine (Fred Willard) of Hi-Class Management, they set out to bring The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey, and The New Main Street Singers back together for a special concert at New York's Town Hall. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer -- who previously teamed up for This Is Spinal Tap -- not only perform together as The Folksmen in A Mighty Wind, but composed most of the songs performed onscreen.
CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (2003)
Cast: Bob Balaban, Michael Hitchcock
Director: Christopher Guest
Producers: Donna E. Bloom, Karen Murphy
Screenwriters: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy
WHO ARE WE?
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Moonrise Kingdom - Bob Balaban introducing Bill Murray on the set of Moonrise Kingdom!
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Great clip of Bob Balaban introducing Bill Murray on the set of Moonrise Kingdom! Be sure to grab your copy on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on October 16.
Great clip of Bob Balaban introducing Bill Murray on the set of Moonrise Kingdom! Be sure to grab your copy on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on October 16.
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Great clip of Bob Balaban introducing Bill Murray on the set of Moonrise Kingdom! Be sure to grab your copy on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on October 16.
- published: 12 Oct 2012
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Edward Norton and Bob Balaban talk 'Moonrise Kingdom'
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Edward Norton and Bob Balaban are both excited to be part of the fantasy world of Wes Anderson. Norton talks about the importance of family and community in the...
Edward Norton and Bob Balaban are both excited to be part of the fantasy world of Wes Anderson. Norton talks about the importance of family and community in the movie, while Balaban explains his role as the narator in the film.
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Edward Norton and Bob Balaban are both excited to be part of the fantasy world of Wes Anderson. Norton talks about the importance of family and community in the movie, while Balaban explains his role as the narator in the film.
Find out what's next on http://www.hitfix.com and subscribe to our YouTube channel
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Stories of Ukrainian Jews. Barney Balaban
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For all the popularity of cinema at the beginning of the twentieth century, revenues of movie theaters depended for a long time on the year season. In summer, no matter how good the movie was, attracting spectators to watch it was an impossible task due to the stuffy heat in the hall.
Barney Balaban and his brother-in-law Sam Katz figured out how to win back patrons. They used powerful fans blowing over cakes of ice in washtubs to keep them pleasantly cool. However, their invention had one significant flaw: as the ice melted, the air currents turned from a refreshing breeze into a shower, therefore, by their order, the engineers created an industrial system that blew dry cooled air.
It was in 1917, and the Balaban & Katz Theater Chain became the first air-conditioned theaters in the world, and Barney Balaban was later invited to head the Paramount Pictures film company, which he had been running for nearly 30 years.
Barney's younger brother, A.J., has also contributed to the increase in theaters attendance. He proposed and organized performances of orchestras in the foyer and turned film screenings into real shows. Although this practice is used today only at pre-premiere screenings, until the end of the last century, performances of musical bands in cinemas were commonplace.
When television broadcasting began to develop, the Balaban brothers took part also in this direction. They were among the first to establish cable broadcasting networks.
Today, the youngest of the Balaban dynasty, Bob, is a successful Hollywood actor, director and screenwriter. It all began at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when parents of the future innovators of show business moved to the United States from Odessa and opened a grocery store in Chicago, wrote Boris Lozhkin on Facebook.
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Barney Balaban and Midnight Cowboy
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Barney Balaban and Midnight Cowboy
Barney Balaban and Midnight Cowboy
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In episode seven of TCM's Moguls and Movie Stars, Bob Balaban recalls the reaction of his uncle, longtime Paramount executive Barney Balaban, to his performance in Midnight Cowboy.
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The Story of Balaban and Katz documentary interview excerpts produced by David Lee Balaban
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Bob Balaban tells us what he can about the new Wes Anderson and learning “Smelly Cat” on the fly
Bob Balaban was born into the movie business: His uncles owned the Balaban And Katz Theate...
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Bob Balaban tells us what he can about the new Wes Anderson and learning “Smelly Cat” on the fly
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Bob Balaban was born into the movie business: His uncles owned the Balaban And Katz Theater group in Chicago, which ran both the massive Chicago and Uptown Theaters as movie palaces, and one of them, Barney Balaban, was the president of Paramount Pictures at the time of Bob’s birth. Bob Balaban’s father, Elmer, owned theaters like the Esquire in Chicago as well, and would later become one of the early players in the cable television game.
Bob Balaban has been active in television and film since he was 20, when he first popped up on a 1965 episode of Hank, a show about a college lunch wagon operator who sits in on classes in the hopes of getting a little smarter. Balaban also appeared in 1969’s Midnight Cowboy and 1970’s Catch-22 before taking on roles both on-screen and in the writers room on shows like Maude. He’s since gone on to write movies like 2001’s Gosford Park, and direct everything from episodes of Eerie, Indiana to Nurse Jackie and Strangers With Candy. We talked to him on the set of Condor, a fascinating TV thriller adapted from the novel Six Days Of The Condor by James Grady. The show originally premiered on the Audience Network, but its second season is currently in streaming limbo, but will hopefully find a place to land later this year.
Though we’ve talked with Balaban before for a Random Roles feature, it’s been a few years, and we thought it would be fun to get some of his remembrances on camera. You can read Sam Adams’ 2012 interview with Balaban here, and check out our more recent talk below. Some highlights from the latest interview can be found in the video above.
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Exploring Waldheim Cemetery
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Exploring Waldheim Cemetery
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Today's adventure takes us west of Chicago to Forest Park, Illinois and to Waldheim Cemetery. This Jewish cemetery is enormous with well over 100,000 graves. We'll explore the graves of Clara Peller, the "Where's the beef" lady from the 1980's Wendy' s commercials, Barney Balaban, pioneer of movie houses and President of Paramount Pictures, Eddie Shwartz, Chicago radio legend, Samuel "Nails" Morton, WWI war hero turned gangster, and Michael Todd, Acadamy Award winner and ex-husband of Elizabeth Taylor. We have a lot to find today so come join me as we explore Waldheim Cemetery.
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Jonathan (Bob Balaban) harasses Lawrence (Michael Hitchcock) about some minor details before the concert.
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The writing and directing team who created Waiting For Guffman and Best In Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to nurture the careers of three of the best known acts of the era. The Folksmen -- Mark Shubb (Harry Shearer), Alan Barrows (Christopher Guest), and Jerry Palter (Michael McKean) -- were an earnest folk trio who sang of America's noble past and the challenges of the future; they split up in the early '70s after a failed attempt to go electric. Mitch & Mickey were a duo in both music and life, comprised of Mitch Cohen (Eugene Levy) and Mickey Devlin (Catherine O'Hara). They sang soulful songs of love until the collapse of their relationship sent Mitch into a deep and incapacitating depression. And The Main Street Singers were a nine-piece vocal group -- a "neuftet," as they prefer it -- who offered energetic good-time music, cranking out nearly 30 albums in the course of a decade; their current incarnation, The New Main Street Singers (played by Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, John Michael Higgins, David Alan Blasucci, Steve Pandis, Christopher Moynihan, Paul Dooley and Patrick Sauber) is still on the road. When it is announced that the legendary Irving Steinbloom has died (the character never appears in the film), his son Jonathan (Bob Balaban) decides that the best way to memorialize his father is through music, and with the help of Mike LaFontaine (Fred Willard) of Hi-Class Management, they set out to bring The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey, and The New Main Street Singers back together for a special concert at New York's Town Hall. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer -- who previously teamed up for This Is Spinal Tap -- not only perform together as The Folksmen in A Mighty Wind, but composed most of the songs performed onscreen.
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Screenwriters: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy
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Moonrise Kingdom - Bob Balaban introducing Bill Murray on the set of Moonrise Kingdom!
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Great clip of Bob Balaban introducing Bill Murray on the set of Moonrise Kingdom! Be sure to grab your copy on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on October 16.
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Edward Norton and Bob Balaban talk 'Moonrise Kingdom'
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Edward Norton and Bob Balaban talk 'Moonrise Kingdom'
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Edward Norton and Bob Balaban are both excited to be part of the fantasy world of Wes Anderson. Norton talks about the importance of family and community in the movie, while Balaban explains his role as the narator in the film.
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Barney Balaban
Barney Balaban (June 8, 1887 – March 7, 1971) was the son of Bessarabian Jewish emigrants who was president of Paramount Pictures from 1936 to 1964, and innovator in the cinema industry.
Life and career
The eldest of the seven sons of Bessarabian Jewish immigrants Augusta "Gussie" (née Mendeburskey) and grocery store owner Israel Balaban, Barney worked as a messenger boy and a cold storage company employee until 1908, when he was persuaded, at age 21, to go into the cinema business. According to a 1945 article in Forbes magazine, his mother came home from her first picture show and commented, "The customers pay before they even see what they're paying for! There'll be money in that business."
Balaban and his younger brothers rented the 100-seat Kedzie Theater. From there, Balaban's innovations changed the industry. In 1910, Balaban built the Circle Theatre, the first cinema to have a balcony. After his sister Ida married Sam Katz, the two brothers-in-law made plans for a chain of cinemas in the Midwest, the Balaban and Katz Theatre Chain. Barney's brothers John, Dave, Abe (aka A. J.), and Max all worked for Balaban and Katz. Brothers Elmer and Harry owned their own theater concern called H & E Balaban.
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