David Edelstein, in his review of Win a Date With Tad Hamilton:
The gimmick of Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!, directed by Robert Luketic from a script by Victor Levin, is that the movie star’s bacchanalian lifestyle is on the verge of derailing his career, so his agent (Nathan Lane) and manager (Sean Hayes)—both named Richard Levy, a joke that will certainly give a chuckle to Spike Lee, Franco Zefferelli, Mel Gibson, and a few others…
Can someone help me out here? Is there a producer, or someone, named Richard Levy? Just curious, as it happens to be my grandfather’s name. What’s so funny about it to Hollywood insiders?
UPDATE: Asked and answered; thanks to everyone who e-mailed. What those three have in common is outstanding charges of anti-Semitism against them, so the idea that Hollywood is run by interchangeable Jews, etc etc. Nothing to do with that particular Jewish name.
Comments are closed.