Crossing Delancey is on TCM right now

She divorced the Brazilian guy too.

That movie was also known as "Jew Struck"

Another role snatched by Amy Irving from Melanie Mayron who originated the role in New York theatre.

[quote] Another role snatched by Amy Irving from Melanie Mayron who originated the role in New York theatre.

Good! Melanie Mayron was not a star.

She's broke now.

She was gorgeous and a terrific actor. Haven't read her name in a long time.

Not sure who the reference to being broke is for, but Melanie Mayron has been directing episodic TV shows for years, and must be doing alright with residuals from "Pretty Little Liars" and "Jane the Virgin."

Melanie Myron directs episodes of "Jane the Virgin", but I really like her performance as Jane's advisor in that show. She's really good.

The scene in the restaurant/bar where Amy Irving tried to fix up the guy with her best girl-friend, then suddenly realizes she likes him after all and is making a huge mistake, is one of my all time favorite scenes in anything. I understand Irving being ignored by the Academy, but can't believe she wasn't recognized by the GGs for this.

I always thought Amy was great in "The Fury"…she has amazing light eyes. 👀

She was nominated for a golden globe r9.

I made out with her.

She is awesome, I wish she made more movies since then. Of course, having a shit load of money from her divorce for Spielberg probably was incentive for her to lay back on working. Many people don't realize she was with him before he made it big as a director.

Whoa!

One of my favorite things in that movie is the music: The Roches, and Prokofiev's "Lieutenant Kije" suite.

Irving claimed that after she divorced Spielberg nobody wanted to touch her. She could hardly get into a room to audition.

The Fury was stupid but Amy was gorgeous in it

She could have grown as a leading actress but it wasn't meant to be. A shame. She looks terrible with that frizzy blonde hair

In that famous book about 70's film (I forget the name, Saint and Sinners or something like that.)

Irving does not come off well. She was supposedly hyper ambitious and thought marrying Spielberg was her ticket to super stardom when it actually was the opposite. She was pretty nasty too him too.

What was her relationship with DePalma like? Were they a couple?

DePalma married actress Nancy Allen.

He had three wives, and I'm sure many other relationships.

Loved Rosemary Harris and the actress who played the grandma--Reizel Boczyk? I'm not even going to try and spellcheck that.

R18, you may be referring to that Peter Biskind book, "Easy Riders", and Irving did come off there as a cold opportunist.

Yes r22. That was the one. Thanks.

Isn't it called Raging Bulls, Easy Riders? Busking brought together the movers and shakers from1970s NY and LA. All I remember from that book was that Margo Kidder and some other actress lived in a house in Laurel Canyon, and everybody who's anybody partied at this house quite often. Oh yeah, and Spielberg was a VERY ambitious young man.

Wow, she looks just like Natalie Dormer in that picture.

Amy Irving was cute, OP, but in no way did she ever come close to Michelle Pfieffer.

Okay. I am bumping this thread because I just saw the repeat of the movie on TCM, and loved it. Second time after seeing it when it originally came out in 1988.

I also saw the original stage production in NY on 14th Street with Melanie Mayron. At The Jewish Repertory Theater, (yeah, I'm that old!). 5 characters, and I remember Shirley Stoler, from Seven Beauties, played the matchmaker, (Sylvia Miles in the movie).

The movie was expanded and used a lot of NY Theatre off Bway actors, mostly unknown at the time, some of whom went on to middling careers. The biggest in a small role was billed as David Pierce, (without the "Hyde"). I guess he added the hyphen later...

If R9 still monitors this thread, I completely agree. I have always remembered that scene. It's what fuels the entire premise, and makes you fall in love with him just when she did.

Getcha hands off her Getcha hands off her

Getcha hands off her

Getcha hands off her

r9 is wrong. Irving was nominated for a Golden Globe for the film.

I always found Irving very striking on film. She was so photogenic. Beautiful eyes. Her mother, Priscilla Pointer, also has very striking eyes.

Amy was solid in Carrie, The Fury, The Competition, Yentl and this film. She really didn't do anything notable after this film, really, aside from Traffic, perhaps. But I always enjoy her acting.

I always thought she was very pretty but not necessarily striking. Then I had the opportunity to meet her back in the mid-80s. In person, yeah, striking is the right word. Perfect skin that glows, piercing eyes. Stunning is another word I'd use.

As beautiful as Michelle Pfeiffer? If not, pretty fucking close!

R.I.P. Joan Micklin Silver

I went to see it because I had loved The Roches when I was in college in the early 80s and Suzzy was in the cast.

I thought it was ok but nothing to write home about. Maybe it means more to you if you’re Jewish because of all the matchmaker stuff in the movie, confronting Jewish life as the generations after the immigrants settle into life in New York, end so on.

All that said, for me? Feh. I saw it once and didn’t ask for my money back but once was plenty. (Of course as a Roches fan I love the soundtrack.)

And by the way the movie poster was very very misleading and that left a bad taste.

I went into the movie intrigued by the idea of a relationship between a very small man with a complete body and a woman who is gigantic but just a head, but the picture wasn’t that way at all. It chose to go in a different direction.

R34 made me laugh.

R34 I love you!

“The Fury” was one of those fun quirky films you’d find on TV over New Year’s Eve, along with obscure ‘70s rollerskating disco teen and oddball Brooke Shields movies, that are now replaced instead by the same repetitive few “bro films” garbage, over that and most other nights.

It was over for her when she permed her hair.