Episode 68 - Fred Melamed
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
For over thirty years, Fred Melamed has been a true Character Actor. He’s starred in seven Woody Allen movies, played Sy Ableman in the Coen Brothers’ “A Serious Man”, and has made appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, House of Lies. He’s most recently in Janicza Bravo’s dazzling debut feature, Lemon. If you perhaps don’t recognize Fred by name, you’ve certainly heard his iconic, booming voice. On this week’s show, Sam and Fred walk through the actor’s life. Stay tuned. It’s a good one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music for the show is by Dylan Peck. https://www.dylanpeck.com/ Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi: www.krishnabalashenoi.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
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| 0:37.0 | In my life there have been several situations where I thought oh shit this is the end of the world |
| 0:47.4 | This is really bad. You know things have |
| 0:53.3 | you know where I found out that both of our children had autism |
| 0:57.3 | you know I lost the job at CBS |
| 0:59.9 | various medical challenges other other things, problems in relationships. |
| 1:05.0 | I thought, this is horrible. |
| 1:06.4 | I'm never going to get over this. |
| 1:08.1 | I'm never, this is going to be it for me. |
| 1:11.2 | And in fact, some of those situations wound up being the springboards to which |
| 1:16.8 | the greatest joys of my life evolved. That was Fred Melamette. I'm San Fricoso. This is Talk Easy. |
| 1:25.0 | Welcome to the show. Oh, For over 30 years, Fred Melaman has been a true character,. Performer from Yale's drama school that has appeared briefly in pretty much everything. |
| 1:58.0 | Seven Woody Allen movies, from Hannah and her sisters to another woman. He was also in suspect, the |
| 2:05.2 | good mother, and well Ishtar. Even if you do not know Melimed by name, you know his voice. His deep boom is |
| 2:15.0 | commanding, powerful yet soothing. When the acting wasn't paying the bills, |
| 2:21.0 | Fred would use this natural gift of his. |
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