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MARLA LEWIN HALPERIN is a successful publicist, producer, playwright, screenwriter and consultant who has represented a wide variety of individual clients, films and produced numerous award shows and special events.
After writing several award-winning plays and a screenplay for Lina Wertmueller. Marla produced numerous Palm Springs Award shows, honoring Ruby Keeler, Patrick MacNee, Joseph Cotton. Gene Barry, Buddy Rogers, George Montgomery, Howard Keel, Carroll Baker, and Harold Robbins. Marla did promotions for Mohammed Ali‘s “Fight for Cancer” event. Marla engineered the reintroduction of Tammy Faye Baker to the public from her self-imposed exile after the conviction of her husband Reverend Jim Baker.
In 1994, Marla assisted Dorothy Hart with the centennial celebration in New York for composer Lorenz Hart.
In 2003, Marla co-produced and promoted LIFE AFTER WAR, a documentary that follows former National Public Radio war correspondent Sarah Chayes’ efforts to rebuild a village in Afghanistan. Working with Chayes and Afghans for Civil Society, Marla helped the film generate phenomenal press coverage, including ABC EVENING NEWS with PETER JENNINGS where Chayes was named “Person of the Week”; OPRAH where Chayes received Oprah’s “Chutzpah Award”; FRONTLINE: WORLD; NOW with BILL MOYERS, numerous broadcasts of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED; and FRESH AIR with TERRY GROSS, along with reviews and articles in numerous newspapers and magazines. Magic Lamp sold the film to the Sundance Channel.
On April 11, 2009 she debuted her new Blog The Global Film Village. Starting today we are moving to our own dedicated site so we can provide you with more stories, pictures and videos that we think you will enjoy. We hope you will make us a favorite stop on your daily reading schedule. We promise to be constantly updating it with fun news about film, plays, stories about people and events that we experience in the Global film Village where ever that takes us on a daily basis.
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- Academy makes it official 85th Awards set for February 24, 2013 to remain at Hollywood & Highland Center March 14, 2012by Marla Lewin This could be the very last edition at the venue as the Academy is free to move the event after next year. Previous reports have disclosed that the Nokia Center in Downtown Los Angeles is interested in hosting the event as part of its push to define Downtown LA as the Live […]Marla Lewin
- Buddha – A Fantastic Journey February 17, 2012by Marla Lewin West Coast premiere at the Bootleg Theater We spoke with John C. Reilly and Evan Brenner after the premiere last night of Buddha – A Fantastic Journey. It is indeed an enlightening play, as the life of the Buddha is explored from his own words,. Siddharttha Gautam was born an Indian prince around […]Marla Lewin
- Orson Welles’ Moby Dick – Rehearsed at Lyric Theatre August 10, 2011by Marla Lewin The Whitmore Eclectic Theatre specializes in heartfelt often experimental theatre. Their current play is by Moby Dick Rehearsed by Orson Welles and imagines the story of Moby Dick presented in its own contemporary time. Herman Melville wrote the book in 1851 and Welles decided to imagine how people of that time reacted […]Marla Lewin
- LATC Soiree to celebrate the 60s August 10, 2011by Marla Lewin The Los Angeles Theatre Center will be the host venue for a Los Angeles Wine Tasting Gourmet Rendezvous, on Friday, August 12. A vintage 60s fashion show produced by Dave Temple from Clever Vintage Clothing, providers for the Mad Men TV series will help set the mood. Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack provided […]Marla Lewin
- THEATRE 40 OPENS 46TH SEASON WITH AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY “SPIDER’S WEB” August 9, 2011by Marla Lewin What better way to kick off a new season of theatre than with an original Agatha Christie mystery? SPIDER’S WEB is a English drawing room mystery. All of the suspects are present from the beginning. The fun is solving the case along with the detective simply using observation and deduction. There is […]Marla Lewin
- First Images from John Carter of Mars July 15, 2011by Marc Halperin The Walt Disney Company has released the first images of Andrew Stanton’s John Carter that will be released on March 9, 2012. I first wrote about this film last January, It has definatley been worth the wait. Click on the image above or text below to see it. John Carter Teaser Trailer […]Marc Halperin
- 60′s Classic TV writer Sherwood Schwartz has died July 12, 2011LOST may have been a ratings smash but the most famous group of castaways ever on television was created by Sherwood Schwartz on Gilligan’s Island. He died peacefully today surrounded by his family at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Sherwood Schwartz was 94. He made an indelible mark in pop culture. He won his only […]Marc Halperin
- Just Imagine Brings John Lennon Back July 7, 2011by Marla Lewin I reviewed Just Imagine back in December of 2009, the show has been extended in Los Angeles, through August 28th at the Haywood Theatre. Don’t miss it if you love the man and his music. The star of Just Imagine is Tim Piper, who has also played the John Lennon role in the […]Marc Halperin
- LA Film Festival Shines a Light on East LA July 3, 2011by Marla Lewin The Filmmaker Mixer gave us a chance to catch up with David Ansen and Doug Jones. They were both excited about the diversity of film shown this year, and David shared that he had traveled again to many festivals including Berlin, Toronto, and also to Havana, Cuba to bring films to LA. […]Marc Halperin
- Re-Animator: The Musical is like a Blue Man Group Experience but with Blood July 2, 2011by Marla Lewin Stuart Gordon returned to the Steve Allen theatre with his new musical version of his own cult horror film “Re-Animator”. Complete with disposable plastic raincoats for those in the first few roses. The audience was amply warned of what was to follow when they found that the seats for at least the […]Marc Halperin
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