The post Lainie Kazan says she never met a man who didn’t try to sleep with her appeared first on Page Six. And they’re so receptive and so open to learning and I love it. “I have the great honor of teaching that I have so much knowledge and so much to give back to these kids.
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“I’ve survived this crazy, wonderful business and am still working,” she says proudly. These characters have included Bubbe in the Bratz movie (the designer of the original doll and two of the Bratz kids in the movie are Jewish, too) the Old Woman in Sandler’s Chanukah animation, Eight Crazy Nights and Grace’s Aunt Honey on Will & Grace all the way back to her recurring Aunt Frieda character on The Nanny (in the mid-to-late 1990s). And I was so impressed with who they were … it was a great afternoon.”įor the last eight years, Kazan has been an adjunct professor at UCLA. With these two men, there was testosterone, always, but they would be just so respectful of me. “And they took me to lunch,” she remembers fondly. Once, Sinatra called her into his dressing room and introduced her to none other than John Wayne. Kazan, who ran jazz nightclubs and was a regular on “The Dean Martin Show,” was a pal of the Rat Pack, noting that Sinatra used to lovingly refer to her as the “Jew broad.” “And it was glamorous to me and so beautifully presented,” she added. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s pitch of presenting her as “the Jewish Sophia Loren” also helped. She adds that the then-prevalent stereotype of Jewish women as frumpy, motherly figures laboring over pots of soup factored into her decision to strip. I thought the body was a beautiful thing.” Kazan has no regrets about posing for the mag, describing herself as a “’60s child and a hippie. The 81-year-old Brooklyn-born performer may be best known to younger audiences as Toula Portakalos’ overbearing mother in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” or Aunt Frieda in “The Nanny,” but back in the ’60s and ’70s, Kazan was a voluptuous vixen who covered Playboy in October 1970. There was no way to be as direct as we are now.”īut Kazan points out that when she did end up in an “entanglement” with a suitor it was “not because the guy was saying, ‘You’re not getting the role otherwise.’” Her strategy for defusing such situations? “Sometimes I tried to play dumb. “There wasn’t a man I met with that didn’t try to sleep with me,” Old Hollywood icon Lainie Kazan tells Page Six.
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