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  Lainie Kazan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lainie Kazan (born Lainie Levine on May 15, 1940 in New York City) is an American actress and singer.
Born to an Eastern European Jewish father and a Sephardic Jewish mother, Kazan began her Broadway career as understudy to Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, finally getting to go on eighteen months into the run when the star was felled by a serious throat problem.
Kazan's mother alerted the press and, encouraged by rave reviews for her performance, she quit the show and set out to establish herself in a singing career.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lainie_Kazan   (384 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Lainie Kazan : Biography
In 1964, Kazan was engaged to understudy Barbra Streisand in the
A firmly established nightclub star by 1980, Kazan made her official screen bow in 1980's One From the Heart (her actual screen debut in an obscure 1968 film was passed over in the studio publicity).
Few of these appearances, however were of the zany calibre of Kazan's outrageous portrayal of an Italian-accented fairy godmother in Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre's version of "Pinocchio." Still a top attraction on the supper-club circuit, Lainie Kazan has opened two cabarets bearing her name in New York and Los Angeles.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/32890/bio.jhtml   (323 words)

  
 City Cabaret Presents Lainie Kazan
Lainie Kazan is a triple threat who tackles all venues and makes them her own.
Kazan was told she could run it as she saw fit; while insisting she's not a jazz singer herself, she immediately asked to bring in jazz musicians.
Kazan played part of the lead's mother though she was barely 40, far too young for the part.
www.citycabaret.com /lainiekazan.htm   (2272 words)

  
 Lainie Kazan
We used 2 Galaxy hot-spot monitors for piano and drums, a pair of JBL MR-802 wedges in front of Lainie, and a pair of Tannoy speakers for side-fills.
As usual with Lainie, I split her gold plated Shure SM-58 into 2 channels on the board; one for front of house, and the other just for her monitors.
If you say nothing else about Lainie, you must admit that she is a striking presence in any room, and puts on a wonderful show.
www.fishnose.com /lkazan.htm   (627 words)

  
 Down the Shore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nonetheless, Lainie Kazan's musical career is unknown to many of her fans, those who know her as the comical Greek mother in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Kazan, 63, who on Monday opened a five-night run at the Atlantic City Hilton, isn't alone in her thinking.
Kazan did hear from them and the little comedy about love, family ties and the clash of cultures with the eccentric title My Big Fat Greek Wedding wound up being one of the biggest-grossing comedies of all time, as well as one of 2002's pop culture touchstones.
www.courierpostonline.com /shore/sha061703a.htm   (740 words)

  
 Lainie Kazan - Actress and Singer
Kazan began her career as Barbra Streisand's understudy in the Broadway production of "Funny Girl." She soon became the "chanteuse" of her native New York, appearing in nightclubs and as a guest on virtually every top variety and talk show on television.
Kazan has sung with the Boston Pops and the Cleveland Pops and performed to sold out houses throughout Europe, Asia and Las Vegas and at such venues as The Greek Theatre, Harrah's, Trump Castle and the hallowed stages of New York's Rainbow and Stars, Tatou and Tavern on the Green.
A recording artist, her CDs include her jazz collections, "Lainie Kazan ­ In The Groove" and "Body and Soul." She is a frequent headliner at The Algonquin and Regency Hotel's in New York City and stages throughout the country.
www.arthurshafman.com /artists/kazan   (442 words)

  
 2003 Stein Memorial Concert featuring Lainie Kazan(6.10.03)
Lainie Kazan, an award-winning actress and recording artist, has performed in movies and television, on the Broadway stage and in nightclubs and concert halls around the world.
Kazan is also in the upcoming movie Gigli with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (due out this summer) and has a starring role in Lifetime Television's Returning Lily.
Kazan has also sung with the Boston and Cleveland Pops and performed throughout Europe and Asia; she is also a frequent headliner at the Algonquin and the Regency Hotel in New York City and performs extensively in regional theater.
www.92y.org /content/stein_concert_2003_lainie_kazan.asp   (791 words)

  
 PrideSource: The lovely Lainie Kazan to preside over HRC's 'Big Fab Gay Wedding'
Kazan's touching performance in the film inspired this year's co-chairs of the HRC dinner event to ask her to come in to be the evening's "mama of ceremonies." In a year when many politicians are afraid to talk about marriage for gays, Kazan is a performer who has no problem discussing it.
And Kazan's gay fans think she's mighty fine herself, so they'll be delighted to know that not only is she going to emcee the evening, but she's going to sing as well - sure to be a real treat considering Kazan says she gets a sensual feeling from her own singing voice.
Kazan will be releasing a new album of Harold Arlen songs in time to celebrate his 100th birthday centennial in February.
www.pridesource.com /article.shtml?article=10038&section=news   (1069 words)

  
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 The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
Kazan, who says she’s portrayed “everyone’s mother except Whoopi Goldberg’s,” plays one of the most recognizable characters in a franchise that began when “Wedding” grossed more than $240 million and became the most successful independent film ever.
Kazan’s big fat Jewish life began in Brooklyn, where she grew up with a bookie dad and a mother who was as theatrical as the fictional Maria Portokalos.
Kazan’s career took off when she stepped in for an ill Barbra Streisand during the 1964 Broadway production of “Funny Girl”; rave reviews and numerous cabaret engagements followed.
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 New York Theatre Wire Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Brought back to the Algonquin by popular demand, not to mention the particular demand of Oak Room impresario Arthur Pomposello, who knows a good thing when he hears it, Lainie Kazan is here through April 10 to restore for us some sense of what power, vulnerability, sexuality, and artistry are all about.
Lainie, like Judy, also knows one or two things about the songs of love, not unrequited.
Mae West would have loved Lainie's self-identifying closing homage of "You know, I used to be Snow White, but I drifted"; and Sophie Tucker, of course, must be up there somewhere, beaming down on this heir apparent -- very apparent -- to THAT buoyant, devouring, prefeminist 1920s bearer of the torch, keeper of the flame.
www.nytheatre-wire.com /talm0324.htm   (186 words)

  
 Art & Understanding
Lainie is pensive, an unusual state for such a high-charged, vivacious individual.
Kazan’s charming, cozy rented home in the San Fernando Valley is just a few blocks from the set of her new TV show, My Big Fat Greek Life.
Lainie admits that singing is her first love, then theater, film, and finally, television.
www.aumag.org /coverstory/june03cover.html   (2132 words)

  
 Lainie Kazan Teaches Master Class
Kazan is a Hofstra alumna who wants to give teach acting where she started.
KazanÂ’s movies include My Favorite Year (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award), Beaches, The Crew, The Big Hit, WhatÂ’s Cooking, One from the Heart, The Cemetery Club, The Associate and Delta Force.
Kazan is an adjunct faculty member at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and has taught master classes at UCLA, Brooklyn College and Broward University, Florida.
www.hofstra.edu /News/UR/Press/ur_sms_lainie2002.cfm   (430 words)

  
 Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley
Lainie Kazan, multi-award winning entertainer in film, television and on stage, has signed to appear in Dennis Nahat’s In Studio D, one of three original dances by Ballet San Jose Artistic Director Dennis Nahat which is slated to open the 2002-03 Season, October 17-20 at San Jose’s Center for the Performing Arts.
Ms Kazan will appear live on stage singing eight songs by Peter Wright who was commissioned to create the musical numbers for the ballet.
In recent years Lainie Kazan has been best known for her acting (Films: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Favorite Year, Delta Force, One From the Heart, and the soon to be released Gigli with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino and Christopher Walken.
www.balletsanjose.org /pressreleases/kazan02.html   (639 words)

  
 Lainie Kazan information at Celebrityinformation.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Zap2it - TV news - Kazan Makes Big Fat Daytime Debut
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - While she has accumulated a daunting roster of film, television and theater credits, Lainie Kazan will make her first appearance in a daytime drama when she drops by the CBS soap "Guiding Light" on Thursday, Oct. 16.
Kazan has been acting for so long that her credits date back to a guest appearances on "Car 54, Where are You?" and "Ben Casey." She has appeared on shows ranging from "Baretta" to "St. Elsewhere" (where her appearance earned an Emmy nomination) to "The Nanny" to "Will & Grace."
Kazan most recently was seen in "Gigli," which means that she hasn't been seen all that recently.
tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|84032|1|,00.html   (248 words)

  
 Lainie Kazan's Master Class
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Hofstra alumna Lainie Kazan, a recognized actress and singer, will follow in the footsteps of many great actors and directors such as Melvin Van Peebles, Susan Sullivan and James Barbour as she teaches a master class in acting at Hofstra University from May 29 to July 16.
Lainie Kazan is the acclaimed actress who has stared in numerous hit movies and Broadway shows including "Beaches", "My Favorite Year" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." This May she stars in the romantic comedy "My Big Fat Greek Wedding".
Kazan's Master Class utilizes the acting techniques of the late Lee Strasberg, the famous acting coach whose acting techniques are used today by stars like Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro.
www.hofstra.edu /News/UR/Press/ur_sms_lainie.cfm   (372 words)

  
 Lainie Kazan Carries a Torch for the Past / Singer-actress delivers drama at Plush Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lainie Kazan brings a whole lot of history onstage in her Plush Room debut.
Dressed in a layered off-the- shoulder fl gown and wide jeweled choker, Kazan flashes an orchestral range when she opens up with ``I Concentrate on You.'' There's the faraway call of a muted trumpet, a trombone's baritone blare and some silky transitions in between.
In the end on Tuesday, Kazan dropped the poses and the pesky microphone and sang ``I Remember You'' as a sweetly unmiked and unadorned valentine to her late husband, Peter Daniels.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/10/21/DD93236.DTL&type=performance   (635 words)

  
 SAG Foundation | Programs | Conversations | Lainie Kazan
Kazan started her career as a popular New York "chanteuse," a talented vocalist who understudied for Barbara Streisand in "Funny Girl," made 26 appearances on "The Dean Martin Show," hosted her own variety special for NBC and opened "Lainie's Room" at the Playboy Club in both New York and Los Angeles.
In 1982, Kazan was cast by Francis Ford Coppola in "One From the Heart," and she received a Golden Globe nomination in 1983 for her performance in "My Favorite Year" starring Peter O'Toole.
Lainie Kazan will be reprising her role in the CBS television series based on the box office hit "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" - Premiering February 24th.
www.sagfoundation.org /conversations/20030118a   (543 words)

  
 Lainie Kazan
Lainie Kazan brings a lot of history to her Plush Room debut.
Her leonine hair and porcelain skin were handsomely set off by a glittering necklace and pleated fl satin top over a floor-length fl skirt.
Kazan declared that she was happy to be back in San Francisco, recalling that she began her 35-year career at the hungry i.
www.culturevulture.net /Theater/Kazan.htm   (580 words)

  
 Day Job: Lainie Kazan on Her GL Stint - the buzz
She appeared in the two biggest stink bombs of the year -- the movie "Gigli" and the sitcom My Big Fat Greek Life--but that's not why Lainie Kazan is taking up soap work.
Kazan took the gig as a favor to the show's head writer Ellen Westin.
Still, Kazan insists she was "out of my league" when it came to GL's frantic no-time-for-retakes schedule.
www.glbuzz.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=1926   (447 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Love Is All There Is [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lainie Kazan was 10 times better in this movie then the Greek Wedding (She was perfect in her part as the "Past the flower of her life" mother still trying to hold on, her efforts were Oscar worthy !
Glamourous comic actress Lainie Kazan, Joe Bologna, Paul Sorvino, and brilliant character actress Renee Taylor take you on a 'not just for New Yorkers' joy ride of a romantic comedy which introduced the teenaged Angelina Jolie.
Kazan is concerned that her husband Joe Bologna cares more for cuddling with the family cat than she: she asks advice from the friendly sooth sayer and neighborhood wacko Renee Taylor who tells her that her son is going to fall deeply for a girl playing Juliet to his Romeo in a school Shakespeare production.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0792845714   (846 words)

  
 City Newspaper: Special: High Falls Film Festival: All she wanted was a free breakfast...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tired of always being a bridesmaid, Kazan comes to Rochester to receive the High Falls Film Festival's "Failure is Impossible" award.
Lainie Kazan, recipient of this year's "Failure is Impossible" award, appears Saturday, November 2 at 3:30 p.m.
Tickets for Lainie Kazan in Conversation with Jack Garner are $5 and available through Ticket Express (in person only at 100 East Avenue), or at the Dryden one hour before the event begins.
www.rochester-citynews.com /gbase/Gyrosite/Content?oid=oid:1555   (709 words)

  
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 Amazon.ca: Video: Lust in the Dust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Saloon owner Marguerita Ventura (Lainie Kazan) gets hot 'n' heavy for Abel's wood, and passions flare up in a race for hidden treasure, the map to which is tattooed in two sections on Rosie's and Marguerita's ample posteriors.
Lainie Kazan (a much underrated actress with fantastic comedy skills) and Divine are a perfect match for a hellcat-take-all catfight.
But that's because I happen to think you can't get much funnier than casting a very overweight white male (who thinks he's a female) as a side-saddle burro riding Mexican plus sized siren named Rosie Velez, who is on her way to the dusty desert town of Chile Verde.
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