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Jami Gertz was born to Walter and Sharyn Gertz. She attended Maine East High School in Park Ridge, IL, then upon graduation, received her professional training at New York University, where she majored in drama. Jami moved to Los Angeles to work on the coming-of-age television series Square Pegs and was soon cast for the leading role in the film Alphabet City. Throughout her career, this brown ...
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- On Why The Lost Boys Still Resonates After All These Years
- On The Film's Homoerotic Undertones
- On Off-Screen Partying
- On Below-The-Line Details
ALEX WINTER: I think it's the most successful interpretation of all the things [director Joel Schumacher] did well, which was fashion and music and understanding actors and story and style and — I'm just gonna call a spade a spade — homoeroticism and sexual ambiguity and sexual adventurousness. So few people really had a forward vision. And Joel co...
WINTER: I do think that, for sure, our characters had that kind of undercurrent. I don't think it required, you know, sitting around a table read discussing it. I had spent my previous five years doing two long-running Broadway shows back to back — during the beginning of the AIDS crisis and at the height of the disco era. I started going to discos...
WINTER: Ah, man. I'll get in so much trouble with literally everybody else involved in the film. I mean, look, it was the mid '80s. I was 19. I was getting up at eight at night and going to bed at seven, eight in the morning every day in Santa Cruz. It was insanity. It was really fun. We were on bikes all the time. We were treated like rock stars. ...
WINTER: There were a lot of happy accidents on Lost Boys and one of them was the decision that [makeup artist] Greg Cannom and Joel made to go really light on the vampire makeup. I think it came from practicality, to be able to get prosthetics on and off very quickly. The original vampire designs for Lost Boyswere very elaborate, so that decision t...
Jami Beth Gertz (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ m i / JAY-mi; born October 28, 1965) is an American actress. Gertz is known for her early roles in the films Crossroads, Quicksilver (both in 1986), Less than Zero, The Lost Boys (both in 1987), and the 1980s TV series Square Pegs and 1996's Twister, as well as for her roles as Judy Miller in the CBS sitcom Still Standing and as Debbie Weaver in the ABC sitcom The ...
Alan Frog : [after Laddie vamps out] Holy smoke! It's the attack of Eddie Munster! Edgar Frog : Get him! Kill him now! [the Frog Brothers and Sam chase after Laddie, but Star, who was hiding in the closet, stops them] Star : [shields Laddie] Stop! Get away from him! You just stay away from him!
Jami Gertz became a household name with her appearance in the 1987 hit movie The Lost Boys, sharing the screen with Kiefer Sutherland, then 57, who portrayed the character David. ...
Age when Lost Boys was released:21. Bottom line: Jamie Gertz was first known from roles in the TV shows "The Facts of Life" and "Square Pegs." She also starred in "Sixteen Candles" and "Less Than ...
/r/OldSchoolCool **History's cool kids, looking fantastic!** A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between. If you've found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it.
