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Jack Rollins, Producer Who Made Woody Allen & Robin Williams Laugh, Dies At 100 by Jeremy Gerard

If there was a Jewish equivalent to the roundtable of vaunted wits who gathered at the Algonquin Hotel in the early decades of the last century, it was probably the deli where Jack Rollins, Charles Joffe and their crowd held court, as replicated in Broadway Danny Rose, his client Woody Allen’s fond tribute to the era. Rollins, who was feted on his centennial in early April by several of the living laugh-mongers…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:21PM on June 18, 2015

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