Norman Newlander (Alan Arkin), whose wife, Eileen (Susan Sullivan), is dying from cancer, is Kominsky’s longtime Jewish best friend and agent. Their friendship and the ways they navigate a ...

Actor Alan Arkin, the veteran comic actor who won an ... When I got there I wasn’t funny at all. But slowly I built one character, then another, and the audience helped teach me what was funny ...

(JTA) — Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five. “Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to turn myself into something other than ...