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Interview with Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

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Brown Eyes:

--- Quote from: Elle on September 09, 2008, 03:40:41 am ---I just read your post about Naomi in Jake Jake Jake, and posted this there, but moved it here:

The thing that got me really excited in your quoted IMDb list is "What about Naomi?"  I REMEMBER that from The Electric Company.  I loved that show 30 years ago, with Morgan Freeman as Easy Reader and the wonderful Rita Moreno. 


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:)

Here's another bit of info about her that I found yesterday while googling:

http://www.filmreference.com/film/6/Naomi-Foner.html

--- Quote ---Born in New York, NY; married Stephen Gyllenhaal (a film director); children:two. Career: Screenwriter and producer. Served as media director of Eugene McCarthy's campaign for president, 1968; Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), production assistant and researcher on staff of Sesame Street, beginning 1968; creator and co-producer of television series,The Best of Families. Awards, Honors: Academy Award nomination for best originalscreenplay, Golden Globe Award for best screenplay, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, PEN West Screenplay Award, all 1989, for Running on Empty.

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Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Producer
A Dangerous Woman, Gramercy Pictures, 1993
Losing Isaiah, Paramount, 1995
Executive producer, Homegrown, Columbia TriStar, 1998 WRITINGS
Screenplays
Violets Are Blue, Columbia, 1986
Running on Empty, Warner Bros., 1988
A Dangerous Woman (based on a novel by Mary McGarry Morris), Gramercy Pictures, 1993
Losing Isaiah (based on a novel by Seth Margolis), Paramount, 1995
Also author of the teleplay "Blackout," for the PBS series, Visions.

Further Reference
OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:
Cosmopolitan, November 1990, pp. 294-97.
Entertainment Weekly, December 3, 1993, pp. 47, 50.
Nation, October 31, 1988, p. 434.
New Republic, October 10, 1988, pp. 26-27.
New Statesman and Society, May 20, 1994, pp. 32, 34.
New York, September 26, 1988, pp. 110, 114, 116; April 3, 1995, p.59.
New Yorker, December 13, 1993, p. 125.
Time, April 14, 1986, p. 104.*


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And for the sake of completeness on this thread... here's the imdb info.  I like that includes the info on her schooling.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284524/bio

--- Quote ---Trivia
Mother of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal

She received her M.A. in developmental psychology from Columbia University

She received a B.A. in English from Barnard College in 1966.

Is Naomi from the line "And what about Naomi?" in the "Love of Chair" segment from "The Electric Company" (1971).

Eric Foner is sometimes incorrectly referred to as her brother (The Columbia Spectator, February 2006). He is actually her ex-husband.

Graduate of Barnard College (Class of 1966).

Granddaughter Ramona Sarsgaard, born October 3, 2006.

Daughter Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal, born November 16, 1977.

Son Jacob 'Jake' Benjamin Gyllenhaal, born December 19, 1980.

Grandmother of Maggie Gyllenhaal's daughter Ramona.

Godfather of her son Jake Gyllenhaal is Paul Newman.

Godmother of her son Jake Gyllenhaal is Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Gabreya:
Wow! Jake and Maggie's mother is wonderful! I like her! Naomi sounds like a cool, good hearted person. :)

Ellemeno:
Wow!

If she had had a little more experience in 1968 when she was the media director for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign, the world might be a very, very, very, very, very different place right now.  Can you imagine?

Brown Eyes:

--- Quote from: Elle on September 14, 2008, 07:55:54 am ---Wow!

If she had had a little more experience in 1968 when she was the media director for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign, the world might be a very, very, very, very, very different place right now.  Can you imagine?

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I know!

I started doing internet searches on her after her recent article was posted in the Elections forum.  My goal originally was to find out more about her political and social involvements.  I recall that her associations with the ACLU came up in the lunch conversation with Jake.  But, I haven't had too much luck finding a lot about her political interests since, for obvious reasons, her showbiz career and associations get a lot more attention.

At least that "Film Reference" blurb that I quoted included that info on her work for McCarthy, which I thought was very interesting.

Gabreya:
She's very interesting!

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