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\n\tHenry Jaglom, the maverick auteur who crafted deeply intimate and unconventional films that explored the intricacies of relationships and the quirkiness of human behavior, has died. He was 87.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tJaglom died Monday night at his home in Santa Monica, his daughter, Sabrina Jaglom, also a filmmaker, told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMy dad was the most loving, fun, entertaining and unique father and the biggest cheerleader and champion anyone could be lucky enough to have,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \n\tThe writer-director of such films as\u00a0A Safe Place\u00a0<\/em>(1971),\u00a0Sitting Ducks <\/em>(1980),\u00a0Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?\u00a0<\/em>(1983),\u00a0New Year\u2019s Day <\/em>(1989), Eating\u00a0<\/em>(1990), Last Summer in the Hamptons\u00a0<\/em>(1995) and\u00a0D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu\u00a0<\/em>(1997), Jaglom drew from experience to make his work feel all the more personal and true to life.<\/p>\n \n\tThough he never achieved the star status of some of his contemporaries, Jaglom was celebrated as an original. His films, though often meandering, were rich with intricate dialogue and deeply woven characters and emphasized people over plots. He often did without a script or rehearsals.<\/p>\n \n\tSome considered him a genius; others thought he had no talent at all.\u00a0Who Is Henry Jaglom?\u00a0<\/em>was the title of a 1995 documentary that attempted to get to the heart of the matter.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cUltimately, whether you love or hate him or his films,\u201d\u00a0Who Is Henry Jaglom?\u00a0<\/em>co-director H. Alex Rubin once said, \u201cyou\u2019ve got to give him credit for his stubborn commitment to remain outside of the mainstream and his refusal to compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn a 2012 interview with\u00a0Slant\u00a0<\/em>magazine, Jaglom\u00a0said he loved Hollywood movies as a youngster but \u201calways felt there was a wall between me and them.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI wanted to make films where people felt that the line was blurred,\u201d he added. \u201cPeople have told me that they somehow feel less lonely by [watching] my films, because my films reveal that we\u2019re all \u2018bozos on this bus,\u2019 if you know that expression. And, somehow, to share that fact, that we\u2019re all going through these things, people feel they\u2019re less in trouble. I try to break through that wall by showing our self-involvement while at the same time entertaining them.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tStraight out of college, Jaglom studied acting under Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio in New York, then appeared opposite Jack Nicholson in\u00a0Psych-Out\u00a0<\/em>(1968) and in the actor\u2019s directorial debut,\u00a0Drive, He Said\u00a0<\/em>(1971). He also cast himself in many of his films.<\/p>\n \n\tHe was a great friend of Orson Welles, one of his stars in\u00a0A Safe Place<\/em>. For about two years before Welles\u2019 death, the two would meet for a weekly lunch at Ma Maison in Hollywood, and Jaglom recorded their lengthy exchanges as they dined. Those became the basis for Peter Biskind\u2019s 2013 book,\u00a0My Lunches With Orson<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tWelles\u2019 final acting appearance came in Jaglom\u2019s Someone to Love <\/em>(1987), and Jaglom showed up in Welles\u2019 last film,\u00a0The Other Side of the Wind<\/em>, released in 2018 after 40 years in development.<\/p>\n \n\tHenry David Jaglom was born in London on Jan. 26, 1938. His father, Simon, was from Russia \u2014 he was jailed during the Russian Revolution in 1917 for being a capitalist \u2014 and his mother, Marie, was a descendant of German philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Both came from wealthy families.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tJaglom was raised in New York City after his family moved there to escape the Nazis. He attended the University of Pennsylvania to study acting (Bruce Dern was a classmate), then returned to New York after graduation to work with\u00a0Strasberg.<\/p>\n \n\tPeter Bogdanovich, preparing to direct his first film,\u00a0Targets\u00a0<\/em>(1968), convinced Jaglom to move to Hollywood. He wanted him to star in his movie as a journalist but ultimately decided to play the role himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tJaglom landed guest spots\u00a0on the Sally Field sitcoms\u00a0Gidget\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Flying Nun\u00a0<\/em>and in the feature\u00a0The 1000 Plane Raid\u00a0<\/em>(1969). He had been in the running to portray Benjamin Braddock in\u00a0The Graduate <\/em>(1967) but lost out to Dustin Hoffman.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tHis friendship with Nicholson\u00a0gave Jaglom an opportunity to help edit\u00a0Easy Rider\u00a0<\/em>(1969) \u2014 Jaglom would go on to edit several of his own features \u2014 and a chance to pitch producer Bert Schneider a script he had written and wanted to direct.<\/p>\n \n\tThat was\u00a0A Safe Place<\/em>, which starred Tuesday Weld as a mentally unstable flower child torn between a steady boyfriend, Fred (Phil Procter), and the sexy, dangerous Mitch (Nicholson).\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe film opened the New York Film Festival but was poorly received, and it would take Jaglom another five years before he could get financing to make his second movie, the Dennis Hopper-starring Tracks\u00a0<\/em>(1976). It followed a Vietnam veteran as he takes the coffin of a fellow soldier on a cross-country trip to make sure his comrade gets a hometown burial.<\/p>\n \n\tIn\u00a0Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?\u00a0<\/em>Karen Black chewed the scenery \u2014 literally and figuratively \u2014 as a neurotic, insecure wife who turns to consuming a diner\u2019s entire desert tray to cope when her husband leaves her.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIn his review of the film, Roger Ebert wrote, \u201cIt will probably appeal to the kinds of people who liked both\u00a0Harold and Maude\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0My Dinner With Andre<\/em>. It is the kind of crazy, endearing film where you start out believing characters like this could never be real and end up realizing you know people just like them.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tJaglom, in fact, often put women in the spotlight. In her final screen appearance, Swedish actress Viveca Lindfors turned in one of her best performances in\u00a0Last Summer in the Hamptons\u00a0<\/em>as a diva who, when forced to sell her beloved beach home, transforms the family\u2019s last visit into grand theater.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tEating\u00a0<\/em>featured an all-female cast talking about their loves, their lives and food;\u00a0Babyfever\u00a0<\/em>(1994) explored a woman struggling with the decision to start a family; and\u00a0Going Shopping\u00a0<\/em>(2005) revolved around a Beverly Hills boutique and delved into the obsession some woman have with buying clothes.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBecause I\u2019m in theater, my films are set in the world of actors and the worlds of actors\u2019 reality,\u201d Jaglom said. \u201cThe other subject that obsesses me is women\u2019s issues, which Hollywood ignores. Eating<\/em>, Babyfever <\/em>and\u00a0Going Shopping\u00a0<\/em>deal with women\u2019s attitudes about food, weight and clothing. I think people see these films and feel less alone going through these things. I try to tell the truth on film. I try to break that fourth wall.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMany times, the characters Jaglom played in his films were thinly veiled versions of himself. He portrayed a hesitant divorcee in\u00a0Always\u00a0<\/em>(1985), a film director in\u00a0Someone to Love<\/em>,\u00a0New Year\u2019s Day <\/em>and Venice\/Venice <\/em>(1992) and a member of a multigeneration theatrical family in\u00a0Last Summer in the Hamptons<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tIn\u00a0Always<\/em>, his first wife, Patrice Townsend, played Judy, the woman his character was divorcing (she also appeared in\u00a0Sitting Ducks<\/em>). The two married in 1979 and divorced two years before the film was released.<\/p>\n \n\tJaglom co-directed and co-wrote\u00a0Babyfever\u00a0<\/em>with his second wife, Victoria Foyt, whom he married in 1991. The two went on to write\u00a0Last Summer in the Hamptons<\/em>,\u00a0D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu,<\/em>\u00a0Going Shopping <\/em>and 2001\u2019s Festival in Cannes<\/em>.\u00a0(Foyt also starred in all four of those films before she and Jaglom divorced in 2013.)<\/p>\n \n\tJaglom met Tanna Frederick when the then-aspiring actress wrote him in praise of\u00a0D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu<\/em>. He cast her in\u00a0Hollywood Dreams\u00a0<\/em>(2006) as an ambitious actress from Iowa (Frederick was a native), and she became his muse, starring in\u00a0Irene in Time <\/em>(2009), Queen of the Lot <\/em>(2010), Just 45 Minutes From Broadway <\/em>(2012), The M Word\u00a0<\/em>(2014) and\u00a0Train to Zakopane\u00a0<\/em>(2018).<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to Sabrina Jaglom \u2014 she wrote and directed the 2022 thriller Jane<\/em> \u2014 he is survived by his son, Simon (middle name: Orson). Both kids, from his marriage to Foyt, often appeared in his films, as did his older brother, Michael Emil, who died in 2019.<\/p>\n \n\tJaglom was \u201ctruly one of a kind,\u201d his daughter noted. \u201cHe lived his entire life exactly the way he wanted to, and encouraged everyone else to do the same. 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