I'm from Hollywood

I'm from Hollywood is a 1989 comedy documentary film about the adventures of late performance artist Andy Kaufman in the world of professional wrestling.[1] The film includes interviews with Taxi co-stars Marilu Henner and Tony Danza and interviews with comedian Robin Williams, wrestler Jerry Lawler, wrestling commentator Lance Russell, and Kaufman's best friend, Bob Zmuda.[2] Other people seen in the film include TV host David Letterman and Jimmy Hart of Continental Wrestling Association.[3] The film's title refers to a phrase spoken by Kaufman to the Memphis wrestling audience.

I'm from Hollywood
Directed byLynne Margulies
Joe Orr
StarringAndy Kaufman
Jerry Lawler
Lance Russell
Tony Danza
Marilu Henner
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The documentary was directed by Kaufman's girlfriend, Lynne Margulies, and Joe Orr. Kaufman himself began work with Margulies and Orr on the film in 1983, shortly before he was diagnosed with cancer. Margulies and Orr, at Kaufman's request, finished I'm from Hollywood after the performer's death.

Comedy Central aired the documentary numerous times during the late 1990s wrestling boom.

Home video release

I'm from Hollywood was released on VHS on June 15, 1998 and November 16, 1999.[4] It was also released on DVD on April 25, 2000[5] and as a special edition on November 20, 2007. The April 2000 edition also includes My Breakfast with Blassie,[6] a 1983 parody of My Dinner with Andre in which Kaufman has a conversation with Freddie Blassie over breakfast at a pancake house.

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gollark: Logically, your risk of imploding is 50% whenever I say that. Cool, right?
gollark: Anyway, did you know that you'll either implode or not implode in the next femtosecond?
gollark: Hermaphrodite things exist and you can easily imagine aliens with more or fewer sexes.
gollark: Not all binary choices have even odds either way, and there are more than 2 anyway.

References
  1. "Movies You Might Have Missed: Andy Kaufman in I'm From Hollywood". The Independent. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  2. "I'm From Hollywood / Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall Synopsis". Fandango. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  3. "Lynne Margulies talks about Andy Kaufman's wrestling days". canoe.com. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  4. "Andy Kaufman: I'm From Hollywood VHS". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  5. "Man on the Moon". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  6. "My Breakfast with Blassie". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2019-02-07.


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