( Academic theorist, artist, and performer Allucquere Rosanne Stone ( born Zelig Ben-Natan ) lived near the Heinleins at some point in the late 1960s and took the unusual name, but is rather evasive about the exact circumstances.

Footage of Jimmy Walker is used in the 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig, with Walker being one the guests during Zelig's visit to Randolph Hearst's mansion, San Simeon.

Allen plays Zelig, a curiously nondescript enigma who is discovered for his remarkable ability to transform himself to resemble anyone he's near.

Like several of Allen's other films ( e. g., Zelig ), Sweet and Lowdown is occasionally interrupted by interviews with critics and biographers like Allen, Nat Hentoff, and Douglas McGrath, who comment on the film's plot as if the characters were real-life people.

He is first observed at a party by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who notes that Zelig related to the affluent guests in a thick, refined accent and shared their republican sympathies, but while in the kitchen with the servants adopted a ruder tone and seemed to be more of a democrat.

Dr. Eudora Fletcher ( Mia Farrow ) is a psychiatrist who wants to help Zelig with this strange disorder when he is admitted to her hospital.

Dr. Fletcher's determination allows her to cure Zelig, but not without complications ; she lifts Zelig's self-esteem but much too high and thus he temporarily develops a personality which is violently intolerant of other people's opinions.

Dr. Fletcher realizes she is falling in love with Zelig.

However, fame is the main cause of their division ; the same society that made Zelig a hero destroys him.

Zelig is not only pricelessly funny, it's also, on occasion, very moving.

Zelig is one of the most famous Italian TV shows.

* In Woody Allen's 1983 film Zelig, archival footage is shown of Mix attending a party at Hearst Castle near San Simeon, California.

The current Mashgiach Ruchani is Rabbi Mordechai Zelig Schechter, older son of the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Aharon Schechter.

* Jack Zelig is arrested for robbing a bordello.

* December 2-Julie Morrell, an assassin hired by Sirocco and Tricker to murder Zelig, is lured to a Second Avenue nightclub and killed.

* October 5-Eastman Gang leader Jack Zelig is killed by " Red " Phil Davidson on a Second Avenue street car trolley.

" Historian Sally Bedell Smith compared him to Zelig, the character in Woody Allen's film who is always present in the back row at major events.

Shortly after Zelig's death New York detective Abe Shoenfeld wrote " Jack Zelig is as dead as a door nail.

The 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig was an elaborate mix of real newsreel footage from the 1930s and fake footage mixed together with fake interviews with real actors playing themselves as well as actors playing roles to tell the story of the Allen character and presented as a documentary.

Zelig was a 1983 American mockumentary film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Allen and Mia Farrow.

* Zelig ( 1983 ) .... Newsreel Announcer

In 1961 she was seen as a middle-aged bride in Jerry Lewis ' It's Only Money, one of Fanny Brice's mother's card-playing friends at the start of the film Funny Girl in 1968, and as the " Jewish Mama from Hell " in Woody Allen's New York Stories in 1989 in Woody's segment titled " Oedipus Wrecks "; she had earlier sung the song " Chameleon Days " on the soundtrack for Allen's film Zelig in 1983.

* Zelig, a 1983 Woody Allen film

" Big " Jack Zelig ( May 13, 1888 – October 5, 1912 ) was a Jewish American New York City gangster and one of the last leaders of the Monk Eastman Gang.

* Jack Zelig ( 1888 – 1912 ), an American gangster

The effect was crude, however, compared to the bigger-budgeted Woody Allen film Zelig, which was already being filmed.

His film roles include Zelig, Waterworld, Air Bud, The Green Mile and The Polar Express among many others.

Set in the 1920s and 1930s, the film focuses on Leonard Zelig, a nondescript man who has the ability to transform his appearance to that of the people who surround him.

Contrasting the film's vintage black-and-white film footage, these persons appear in color segments as themselves, commenting in the present day on the Zelig phenomenon as if it really happened.

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Allen was so impressed with Herlihy's voice that he used him in several of his films in the 1980s, including Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days and Zelig ; his other film credits included Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy and Tim Burton's Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

The play Appointment in Limbo written by McCabe was premiered by Zelig Theatre in Galway's Town Hall Theatre in 2008.

In addition, Dick Hyman composed a number of tunes allegedly inspired by the Zelig phenomenon, including " Leonard the Lizard ", " Reptile Eyes ", " You May Be Six People, But I Love You ", " Doin ' the Chameleon ", " The Changing Man Concerto ", and " Chameleon Days ", the latter performed by Mae Questel, the voice of Betty Boop.

It ran on Italia 1 from 2004 to 2005 with a couple interpreted by famous comedian Fabio De Luigi ( already famous for its collaboration with Gialappa's Band ) and Michelle Hunziker ( veteran of Zelig Circus ).

* Divina Mina by Dora Giannetti ( Zelig 1998 )

Mainly operating around 125th Street, the gang generally committed muggings and robberies although they were occasionally hired out for murder by Zelig.

The Jewish Kingdom of Khazar: The Rise and Fall of the Legendary Country of Converts by Rabbi Zelig Shachnowitz, Frankfurt-On-The-Main, 1928.

Born as Zelig Harry Lefkowitz, by the time he was six years old Zelig was a well-known pickpocket and thief while growing up on New York's Lower East Side

After being arrested in 1911 for robbing a brothel, Sirocco and Tricker attempted to gain leadership of the gang by refusing to bail out Zelig.

Zelig was later released due to his political connections and he was informed by a member that Sirocco and Tricker were planning on murdering him upon his release.

The assassin, a gunman named Julie Morrell, was lured by Zelig to The Stuyvesant Casino ( 140 Second Avenue, now the Ukrainian National Home ) where he was killed, possibly while intoxicated, by the gang leader on December 2, 1911.

As Zelig left the Criminal Courts on afternoon on June 3, 1912, he was shot through the neck by a Five Points gunman named Charley Torti, who was a known associate of Louis Pioggi, aka Louie the Lump, who had gunned down Zelig's mentor, Kid Twist Zwerbach, four years earlier.

The day before he could do so, on October 5, 1912, Zelig was shot behind the ear and killed by " Boston Red " Phil Davidson ( of 111 E. 7th Street ) while riding on a 2nd Avenue trolley car while passing East 13th Street.