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Description of Pictures: Joel Grey In Conversation with Leon Wieseltier
The Tony, Golden Globe, and Oscar-winning actor, producer, and director is a tireless showman, acting in countless movies and TV shows after decades spent on and off Broadway. Grey is perhaps best known for his iconic role as master of ceremonies in the stage and screen versions of Cabaret. Growing up Joel David Katz in a Jewish family in Cleveland, he began acting at age 9.
In Master of Ceremonies, Grey takes readers on a tour of a life lived in and out of the limelight, through the changing landscape of seven decades spent in entertainment: from vaudeville to theatre to movies and television, Grey has been at the forefront of each innovation and has adapted to master the forms.
In 2015, Grey opened up to the public for the first time, saying in People: “I don’t like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I’m a gay man.” Grey lived partly in secrecy, the victim of an era that made being himself not only difficult, but also dangerous.
With Master of Ceremonies, Grey is finally able to step out of character and share, with honesty and fearlessness, the man behind so many memorable roles. In conversation with Leon Wieseltier, a contributing editor at The Atlantic and the author of Kaddish. From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of The New Republic. Book signing to follow.
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GREY1_160223_019.JPG: Murray Horwitz, Glenn Marcus
GREY1_160223_023.JPG: Lisa Yochelson
GREY1_160223_029.JPG: Jackie Levanthal, Joel Grey
GREY1_160223_039.JPG: Leon Wieseltier, Joel Grey
GREY1_160223_068.JPG: Cantor Larry Paul
GREY1_160223_127.JPG: Leon Wieseltier, Joey Grey
GREY1_160223_152.JPG: Esther Foer
GREY1_160223_159.JPG: Leon Wieseltier, Joel Grey
GREY1_160223_399.JPG: Joel Grey @ Sixth and I Historic Synagogue.
Joel Grey
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Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, and photographer. He is best known for portraying the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film versions of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won an Academy Award, Tony Award, and Golden Globe Award.
He also originated the role of George M. Cohan in the musical George M! in 1973, and the Wizard of Oz in the musical Wicked. He also starred as Moonface Martin in the Broadway revivals of Anything Goes, and as Amos Hart in Chicago.
GREY2_160223_254.JPG: Joel Grey
GREY3_160223_014.JPG: Murray Horwitz and family
GREY3_160223_015.JPG: Joel Grey, Cantor Larry Paul
GREY3_160223_017.JPG: Leon Wieseltier, Jennifer Bradley, Joel Grey
GREY3_160223_020.JPG: Jennifer Bradley, son, Leon Wieseltier
GREY3_160223_022.JPG: Cantor Larry Paul, Murray Horwitz, and Murray's family
GREY3_160223_099.JPG: Joel Grey, ???
GREY3_160223_144.JPG: Joel Grey, ??? (National Building Museum)
GREY3_160223_332.JPG: Joel Grey, Murray Horwitz
GREY3_160223_342.JPG: Murray Horwitz's family, Murray Horowtiz, Joel Grey
GREY3_160223_444.JPG: Joel Grey, Jackie Leventhal, Lisa Yochelson
GREY3_160223_454.JPG: Joel Grey, Jackie Leventhal, Lisa Yochelson
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2017_DC_McCain_170524 Jewish Primary Day School & Sixth and I -- Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture: Senator John McCain ("Between Realism and Idealism") w/Leon Wieseltier
2016_DC_Moment_Gala_161218 DC -- Moment Magazine's 41st Anniversary Dinner and Gala @ Temple Sinai -- Mingling
2016_DC_Moment_Gala2_161218 DC -- Moment Magazine's 41st Anniversary Dinner and Gala @ Temple Sinai -- Formal Program
2012_DC_Kagan_121213 Jewish Primary Day School & Sixth and I -- Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan ("Law and Justice") w/Leon Wieseltier
2012_DC_Sacks_121205 Sixth & I -- Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks ("The Great Partnership") w/Leon Wieseltier
2009_DC_Rice_090503 Jewish Primary Day School & Sixth and I -- Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture: Condoleezza Rice ("Perspectives on Peace and War") w/Leon Wieseltier
2016 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Seven relatively short trips this year:
two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City),
my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California),
a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral,
two additional trips to New York City, and
a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.
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