(Playwrights) now are writing for sitcoms because they get a lot more money, and the quality doesn't have to be that good, ... But, boy, some of these older pieces like (those by) (George S.) Kaufman and (Moss) Hart slay me with how well they're written and constructed.
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I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.
I never worked for a better owner in baseball. I've worked for a few -- Charlie Finley, Ted Turner, Ray Kroc, Ewing Kaufman, Marge Schott. Jeffrey has been the best owner I've ever worked for. He let you do your job. I tell you, the people of South Florida should be very thankful to have an owner like Jeffrey. He has such a tremendous desire to win. He has said that so many times. He's one owner who has talked the talk and walked the walk. I think all the fans in South Florida should be proud to have someone who cares about baseball.
I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
This is a vision Kaufman and Broad shares with Henry Cisneros, and together we have the resources and expertise to make vital new neighborhoods a reality.
What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.
Dr. Kaufman became dean at a time when the college and the university were reeling from the cuts that had been imposed by the state's Measure 5 bill. Under his leadership, the college has moved from dealing with significant program reductions to the point where it is recognized as one of the nation's finest education colleges.
Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis Hopper part CEO, part unelected president. He gets the best line in the film when a frowning apparatchik asks if there is any trouble. In a world where the dead have returned to life, ... the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning.
Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
She (Kaufman) is coming with more speed, control and picking her pitches better. She is giving her defense chances to help her.
You cannot be disappointed when you walk out the front door and not into a holding cell. If Mr. Kaufman is disappointed, I am the tooth fairy.
Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.
State policy and state law failed the victims of the Kaufman House.
Our second handicap was an election manifesto which Gerald Kaufman rightly described as the longest suicide note in history'.