Date and Time
- Sunday, May 18, 2025 3:15pm
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SPX Presents: DREW FRIEDMAN...
Special Features: Q&A with filmmaker Kevin Dougherty
SPX Presents: DREW FRIEDMAN: VERMEER OF THE BORSCHT BELT
For years, artist Drew Friedman has chronicled a strange, alternate universe populated by forgotten Hollywood stars, old Jewish comedians and liver-spotted elevator operators. Friedman grew up amid the New York literary scene of his father, writer Bruce Jay Friedman, but he was more at home with the Three Stooges, Car 54 and MAD magazine. This in-depth documentary traces the irreverent cartoonist’s evolution from underground comics to the cover of the New Yorker through interviews with Friedman’s friends and colleagues. It also features a rare peek into his private “Jewseum,” perhaps the world’s largest collection of artifacts devoted exclusively to Jewish comedians
