Ellen Adler’s son, Tom Oppenheim, president and director of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (which will benefit from the event) touted his great-grandfather Jacob Adler’s idealism and contribution to the Yiddish theater.įollowing an anti-Bush fusillade, director Mike Nichols’s tribute to the Yiddish theater included “Yiddish words that crept into our language- farfetched…farflung.” Nichols presented the Jacob Adler Award to Tony Kushner whose supersonic stream-of-verbiage left me and, I suspect, many in the room dazzled and puzzled. At the November 8 “Stella by Starlight” tribute to her mother at the Pierre Hotel, Ellen Adler recalled “Thirty years of… daily phone conversations with Marlon ,” the evening’s designated Stella Adler Award recipient.
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