Show - I IN STEP wrrn 0 1 II I I - 4"EMEMBER - 1 - I Mt JAIIIES BRADY go e 'T 0 1111 - t JULIE 4 Valerie Li— Harper's kid sister Brenda on Rhoda? They did their last show in 1978 and Julie still says of those days and of Valerie: "We were very much friends and workmates She's one of the best and such a good heart" And it was on Rhoda that Julie got to work with Mary Tyler Moore whose own show had spun off Rhoda Kavner as i ! and whose MTM production company produced it "Mary was in the wedding show on Rhoda" Julie said "and there might have been one other Listen I work with the biggies" And she does Julie has two motion pictures scheduled to be BRADY'S BITS released Julie Kamer said when The Simpson Is in Production she and next month: a star-thring role in a film with Dan Aykroyd and at i len's me "and we do it like a radio show— Woody film in which she has And worked ever since The Simpsons began as a segment on The Tracey Ullman Show Julie has been the voice of Marge Simpson—"plus all at °melee in the tan kik was taking time rel in Went N-- L on Long Island when we spoke "I go back to wart n PAarge SimPsoll in the Ifor awl she said "but titer that I don't IEDOW It he a new TV series Except for Wargo I don't want to repeat another character again" PARADE MAGAZINE I latest Shadows and Fog—the fifth f of her relatives" In her own new flick This Is My Life Julie plays a gle mother with two daughters who sells cosmetics in the Macy's on Queens Bouleyard in New York and dreams of becoming a stand-u- p comic Dream becomes reality thanks in part to agents Aykroyd and Fisher but along with success comes the sin-spri- ng ters broadcasts" "II and a small role in Woody Al- JANUARY 12 1992 - PAGE 19 She was Rhoda's kid sister on televisions Next month Julie Kavner stars with Dan Aykroydin anewfdm calkd "This Is Illy Life" ir 110MEMPPONULMOMPPPINWSO1 risk of alienating her kids It's a funny intelligent often moving script written by the sisters Nora and Delia Ephron with Nora also making her debut as a director Did that make Julie t f geria WW1 OnlY WO "It's great tun" she told la" With two sew vN '1 Carrie Fisher standing around In a semkircle with OW soriPt& it's not 1 the other actors who do the yokes for the animated days a week el: 1° ' BORN: Sept 7 1951 In Los Angeles ! FINational Lampoon Goes to the Merles 1981 Bad Medicine 1985 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Radio Days 1987 New Toth Rodeo 1989 Awakenings 1990 dike 1990 mivisioN: includes Rhoda 197478 Tracey The moan show 198790 The gagman 1989— losomilamit nervous? "Not with Nora" Julie said "She's so perfectly suited to this job She loves directing loves to be in controlShe'll direct a dinner party And she has been around the best—Rob Reiner and Mike Nichols and Woody and she's so damned smart and funny yet there's also a calmness about her" Nora Ephron—who also wrote the book and screenplay for Heartburn— is married to Nick Pileggi who wrote the book Wiseguy on which the movie GoodFellas was based (Pileggi also the screenplay) Did Julie meet him? "He came up to Toronto where they were shooting This Is My Lifer she said "and I can't believe Wiseguy could come out of this genteel elegant guy" How about Dan Aykroyd? "I never met him before" she said "but of course I knew him from Saturday Night Live and Blues Brothers and Driving Miss Daisy" Julie is an actress who enjoys ing about the craft just how it works "One of the best things we did was that Nora insisted on three weeks of rehearsals" she told me "so that 'mother' ‘ and 'daughters' got to know each other and became easy together and 1I also got to know Nora and Delia They work together well as sisters Nora used Delia to help rewrite when she couldn't get to a typewriter and was shooting a scene Delia was also her backup eye" Julie had roles in Woody Allen's Alice Radio Days Hannah and Her Sisters and his segment of New York Stories "When you work with Woody" she said "he's both writer and director It's like d maworking with a master artist on a chine He has the best cinematographers and this years group he's worked with for—what?-- 15 El When you're an actor Woody's a joy!" co-wro- te well-oile- |