{"id":16837,"date":"2014-07-09T12:37:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=16837"},"modified":"2014-07-09T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:37:47","slug":"filmmaker-paul-mazursky-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/filmmaker-paul-mazursky-dies-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Paul Mazursky dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"

(JTA) — Filmmaker Paul Mazursky, who captured the 1960s and ’70s counterculture with a string of successful movies, has died.<\/p>\n

Mazursky, who grew up Jewish in Brooklyn but later became a proclaimed atheist, died June 30 in Los Angeles. He was 84.<\/p>\n

The movies he directed and wrote captured the freewheeling, free-loving, drug-smoking era of the ’60s and ’70s, including such films as \u201cBob & Carol & Ted & Alice\u201d and \u201cAn Unmarried Woman\u201d and \u201cHarry and Tonto.\u201d He also wrote and directed \u201cDown and Out in Beverly Hills.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mazursky’s work spanned six decades, including the 1989 adaptation of an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel called \u201cEnemies, a Love Story.\u201d In recent years he appeared in several episodes of HBO\u2019s \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mazursky was nominated for five Oscars but never won.<\/p>\n

Born Irwin Mazursky in 1930, he changed his name to Paul when he acted in his first movie, Stanley Kubrick\u2019s debut feature, \u201cFear and Desire,\u201d in 1953.<\/p>\n

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