About: Michael Herz   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Herz and Kaufman first met when both of them were attending Yale University. Initially, the two didn't get along; Kaufman has stated that the only reason the two hung out with each other was that Herz owned a pinball machine and Kaufman was the only person in their dormitory who owned a television. Regardless, he was cast in a small part in Kaufman's first feature film, The Girl Who Returned. Herz appeared on-camera for the first time in over 20 years to promote Troma's Kickstarter campaign for Return of Nuke 'Em High: Vol. 2. link With his wife Maris, they have one daughter, Sloane.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Michael Herz
rdfs:comment
  • Herz and Kaufman first met when both of them were attending Yale University. Initially, the two didn't get along; Kaufman has stated that the only reason the two hung out with each other was that Herz owned a pinball machine and Kaufman was the only person in their dormitory who owned a television. Regardless, he was cast in a small part in Kaufman's first feature film, The Girl Who Returned. Herz appeared on-camera for the first time in over 20 years to promote Troma's Kickstarter campaign for Return of Nuke 'Em High: Vol. 2. link With his wife Maris, they have one daughter, Sloane.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:troma/prope...iPageUsesTemplate
Name
  • Michael Herz
ID
  • 381230(xsd:integer)
abstract
  • Herz and Kaufman first met when both of them were attending Yale University. Initially, the two didn't get along; Kaufman has stated that the only reason the two hung out with each other was that Herz owned a pinball machine and Kaufman was the only person in their dormitory who owned a television. Regardless, he was cast in a small part in Kaufman's first feature film, The Girl Who Returned. After graduating from Yale, Herz went on to study law at New York University. Although he was quite adept at the subject, he secretly harbored a desire to become a screenwriter. His girlfriend Maris, who was a friend of Lloyd Kaufman's, took Herz to see Cry Uncle!, a film that Kaufman served as a production manager on. Impressed, Herz contacted Kaufman and was hired for the production of the 1973 film Sugar Cookies and Big Gus, What's the Fuss?. In 1974, Kaufman and Herz formed Troma Entertainment. Together, they co-directed and co-produced all of Troma's movies from 1983's Squeeze Play! to 1991's Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D., when Herz relinquished control of the director's chair to focus on the business end of Troma Studios. Herz is notoriously publicity-shy, allowing the more charismatic Kaufman to be the public face of Troma. Apart from brief appearances in the Class of Nuke 'Em High series, Herz has remained behind the camera. In 1994 (the creation of Troma Team Video), Herz retired from appearing in promotional videos and the character of 'Michael Herz' was played by Troma's iconic 500-pound actor Joe Fleishaker (in real life, Herz is rather physically fit). Herz appeared on-camera for the first time in over 20 years to promote Troma's Kickstarter campaign for Return of Nuke 'Em High: Vol. 2. link With his wife Maris, they have one daughter, Sloane.
is Row 1 info of
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software