{"id":26411,"date":"2019-07-17T07:28:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T11:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26411"},"modified":"2019-08-10T18:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:15:21","slug":"the-mickey-katz-non-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/17\/the-mickey-katz-non-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MICKEY KATZ NON-MOVIE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eric Krasner <\/strong><\/span>wanted to make a movie about Mickey Katz, the Cleveland-born klezmer clarinetist and comedian. Eric came to Cleveland from Atlanta to look around. He wanted to see where Mickey was born, and where Mickey\u2019s wife grew up, and where Mickey\u2019s father\u2019s tailor shop had been. I said, \u201cI\u2019m not a filmmaker — and I don\u2019t want to tell you what to do — but if you want another opinion, I don\u2019t think you should show every place Mickey took a shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eric and I visited the Euclid Avenue Temple (now Liberty Hill Baptist Church), where Mickey was married in 1930.\u00a0Eric filmed the men\u2019s room and said, \u201cThis is where Mickey urinated after his wedding.\u201d Eric asked me<\/span> why Katz (1909-1985) wasn\u2019t more acclaimed in Cleveland. For one thing, Mickey is not well-known here. He’s not Bob Feller or Superman, or Pekar.<\/p>\n

Eric and I went to Glenville, an East Side neighborhood where Mickey spent his teenage years. We found the Glenville Hall of Fame but no Mickey plaque. At Katz’s birthplace, near East 51st and Woodland, Eric drew a sign, \u201cBirthplace of Mickey Katz 1909,\u201d and hung it on a fence and filmed the sign.<\/p>\n

Eric announced<\/strong><\/span> on Facebook<\/span> he is giving up on the Mickey Katz film. Mickey’s son Joel Grey has declined to participate in Eric’s film, and that’s a big neg. The movie is toyt<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Krasner wanted to make a movie about Mickey Katz, the Cleveland-born klezmer clarinetist and comedian. Eric came to Cleveland from Atlanta to look around. He wanted to see where Mickey was born, and where Mickey\u2019s wife grew up, and where Mickey\u2019s father\u2019s tailor shop had been. I said, \u201cI\u2019m not a filmmaker — and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cleveland-full","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26411"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26734,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions\/26734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}