Star of theatre, television, and film for nearly seven decades!
Today on the show we have star of stage and screen big and small, Lynn Cohen, who is currently starring in a comedy film at this year's Santa Barbara International Film Festival, The Pickle Recipe. This is a charming little comedy about an uncle and his nephew trying to get the family recipe for some classic pickles from the one person who knows how they're made, that's right a feisty grandmother played by Lynn Cohen. You'll know her from playing Magda in Sex and the City, and maybe you've seen her in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, on on bit parts in Nurse Jackie, or as Mags in the Hunger Games, or as Golda Meir in Spielberg's Munich, or recently in an episode of Master of None. Go to the website for this show, look at her photo and you'll know who we're talking about.

Lynn Cohen Demo Reel from The Pickle Recipe on Vimeo.
But here's the thing too: she's been a fixture of the stage since she was a teenager and had played everything from Ibsen and Shakespeare to Neil Simon to everybody in between.
I apologize for this episode because it's so short and I was given such a small window with Lynn that I'm trying to cram everything in. We could have made this a three-hour episode, really, as she's crossed paths with damn near everybody.

The Pickle Recipe Teaser from sheldon cohn on Vimeo.
In the meantime, go check out thepicklerecipe.com to see this film. It's directed by Michael Manasseri, written by Sheldon Cohn and Gary Wolfson, and also stars John Dore and David Paymer and Eric Edlestein and you will both get a chuckle out of it and want to head immediately afterwards to a deli to get a pastrami on rye, I'm not kidding you. Also, thanks to Carol Green and Kim Dixon for making this happen, and the guys at the Rondo for putting me up.