Babaloo Mandel
American writer
Denise Madelyn Horn
(m. 1974)Marc "Babaloo" Mandel (born October 13, 1949) is an American writer and producer. He first wrote episodic television comedy, then later began writing feature films and theatre. He and long-time writing partner Lowell Ganz wrote numerous high-profile films including Splash (1984), Parenthood (1989), City Slickers (1991), and A League of Their Own (1992).[1]
Biography
Mandel was born in New York City, the son of a taxi driver.[1] He attended Queens College, City University of New York, before leaving for Hollywood in 1972.
Mandel met Ganz while at Queens College. It was Ganz who gave him the nickname "Babaloo", after the character Babaloo Mandel in Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint.[1] Mandel and Ganz were featured in The Dialogue interview series.[2] In the 90-minute interview with producer Mike DeLuca, they discussed their 40-year partnership as it evolved from television to feature films.
Both men worked on the television series Happy Days, Mandel as a creative consultant, Ganz as supervising producer.[1] As a result of that connection, they were offered their first big break, the movie Night Shift, by series star Ron Howard and his friend, producer Brian Grazer.[1] Howard directed Night Shift, and it was Grazer's first feature film as producer.[3] The writing duo later reteamed with Howard on Splash, for which Mandel, Ganz and Bruce Jay Friedman won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay. Mandel, Ganz, Friedman and Grazer were also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
The pair also wrote for the television series Laverne & Shirley. They were the screenwriters for the 1992 sports movie A League of Their Own, directed by Penny Marshall.
He married Denise Madelyn (nee Horn) in 1974.[1] They have six children, including a set of triplets.[4]
The Online Archive of California has the Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel Collection of material related to their writing careers.[3]
Partial filmography
- Night Shift (1982)
- Splash (1984)
- Spies Like Us (1985)
- Gung Ho (1986)
- Vibes (1988)
- Parenthood (1989)
- City Slickers (1991)
- A League of Their Own (1992)
- Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
- Greedy (1994)
- City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994)
- Forget Paris (1995)
- Multiplicity (1996)
- Fathers' Day (1997)
- EDtv (1999)
- Where the Heart Is (2000)
- Robots (2005)
- Fever Pitch (2005)
- Tooth Fairy (2010)
Partial television credits
- Busting Loose (1977)
- Laverne & Shirley (1977–78)
- Happy Days (1981)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Reed, J. D. (October 19, 1992). "Mr. Saturday Night's Writers: Funny All Week". People. 38 (16). Retrieved October 1, 2013.
- ^ The Dialogue: Learning From the Masters - Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (2006) at AllMovie
- ^ a b "Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel Collection". Online Archive of California.
- ^ "Babaloo Mandel Biography (1949–)". Filmreference.com. October 13, 1949. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
External links
- Babaloo Mandel at IMDb
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- Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker (1969)
- Éric Rohmer (1970)
- Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
- Ingmar Bergman (1972)
- George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (1973)
- Ingmar Bergman (1974)
- Robert Towne and Warren Beatty (1975)
- Alain Tanner and John Berger (1976)
- Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
- Paul Mazursky (1978)
- Steve Tesich (1979)
- Bo Goldman (1980)
- John Guare (1981)
- Murray Schisgal and Larry Gelbart (1982)
- Bill Forsyth (1983)
- Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman (1984)
- Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1985)
- Hanif Kureishi (1986)
- John Boorman (1987)
- Ron Shelton (1988)
- Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989)
- Charles Burnett (1990)
- David Cronenberg (1991)
- David Webb Peoples (1992)
- Jane Campion (1993)
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- Amy Heckerling (1995)
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- Julian Fellowes (2001)
- Ronald Harwood (2002)
- Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
- Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
- Noah Baumbach (2005)
- Peter Morgan (2006)
- Tamara Jenkins (2007)
- Mike Leigh (2008)
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- Aaron Sorkin (2010)
- Asghar Farhadi (2011)
- Tony Kushner (2012)
- Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy (2013)
- Wes Anderson (2014)
- Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
- Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
- Greta Gerwig (2017)
- Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin (2018)
- Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019)
- Eliza Hittman (2020)
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)
- Todd Field (2022)
- Samy Burch (2023)
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