He's new to Hollywood, and he very quickly is taken to the lavish office of Lerner's Jack Lipnick. (Crying).īIANCULLI: Terry Gross spoke with Michael Lerner in 1992, the year after his role as Hollywood studio chief Jack Lipnick in "Barton Fink." The title character is a New York theater writer played by John Turturro. LERNER: (As Jack Ruby) Poor Jackie - what she's going through this minute - those beautiful, little kids. I mean, it wasn't easy to be close like the Kennedys. ROBERTS: (As Eva) We did the best we could, but we were always being pulled apart so much. We're always there to help each other out. We had our share of trouble, us Rubensteins.
ROBERTS: (As Eva) That's the best part of a family. And right now they're easing the pain for each other - right now. LERNER: (As Jack Ruby) They love each other. ROBERTS: (As Eva) They're very strong people. Look at all the pain and trouble they've had, huh? But they've endured it. LERNER: (As Jack Ruby) The Kennedys - that wonderful, big family. MICHAEL LERNER: (As Jack Ruby) Well, at least tonight they'll be together. The sister also is played by a strong character actor, Doris Roberts, who later played the mother on the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond." Here's a scene from "Ruby And Oswald" in which Ruby is visiting his sister just after Kennedy's death. And Lerner played Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who shot and killed Oswald days later.
Forrest played Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated JFK in 1963.
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He starred in the 1978 CBS TV movie "Ruby And Oswald" opposite Frederic Forrest. Another memorable role by Michael Lerner in a TV movie - Lerner himself later called it one of his favorites - also had a Kennedy connection. The 1974 ABC telemovie "The Missiles Of October," a drama about the Cuban Missile Crisis, featured Michael Lerner as White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger in a performance that Jackie Kennedy Onassis later told him out-Pierred (ph) Pierre. Some of his standout supporting roles came early and in made-for-TV movies.
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Michael Lerner also appeared on "Hill Street Blues" in the '80s, the Coen brothers movie "Barton Fink" in the '90s and, in this century, the movie "Elf" and several episodes of the TV series "Glee." He guest starred on "The Brady Bunch" in the '60s and "That Girl," "The Bob Newhart Show," "Starsky And Hutch" and "M*A*S*H" in the '70s. Actor Michael Lerner, who died Saturday at age 81, was nominated for a supporting actor Oscar for his work as a Hollywood studio executive in the movie "Barton Fink." But for most of his career - and it was a long one - he worked as a character actor, guest starring on dozens and dozens of TV shows through the decades.
I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University, in for Terry Gross.
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