Linda Lavin s New CBS Sitcom 9JKL Premiers in October TV for Grownups
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She plays Judy Roberts, the mother of two adult sons. The show's focus is the newly divorced Josh (Royal Pains' Mark Feuerstein, 46), who has moved into a New York City apartment that’s sandwiched between those of his parents and married brother, Andrew (David Walton, 38). And yes, they are in apartments 9J, 9K and 9L.
Surprise: Boundary issues abound. Judy — whose husband, Harry, is played by Elliott Gould, 79 — is focused mainly on poking her nose into her son’s business, romantic and otherwise, and making wildly inappropriate comments. (“We used to be one body,” she says to Josh in the pilot.) , where they turned an abandoned garage into a 50-seat theater that they ran together for five years. Flowers & Gifts 25% off sitewide and 30% off select items See more Flowers & Gifts offers > They now live in rural New York near the Massachusetts border and are transforming a 250-year-old barn into a B&B with five guest suites in the hamlet of Spencertown. They're thinking about calling it Country Suites and plan to hire a manager to run the place. (There will be no chatting with Lavin over your , in other words.)
Devoted to singing for as long as she can remember (even in the crib, Lavin has said), she also has a nightclub act. Last summer she performed at Birdland in Manhattan, belting out jazz standards while telling stories “about my childhood, about my life now,” she says, with a five-piece band that includes Bakunas on drums. In 2011, she released an album of jazzy show tunes called Possibilities.
Lavin took on 9JKL at the request of Feuerstein, who cowrote the pilot with his wife, Dana Klein. Lavin and Feuerstein had grown close playing mother and son in NBC’s short-lived 1998 sitcom Conrad Bloom.
The actress, who turns 80 in October, describes her latest project experience as “really the best time I had on television in a long time.” Lavin can't imagine anything better than the life she is living: “I have everything I want, everything I’ve ever needed, right now.” Linda Lavin and Mark Feuerstein, who plays her son, in "9JKL" Cliff Lipson/CBS More on entertainment AARP NEWSLETTERS %{ newsLetterPromoText }% %{ description }% Subscribe AARP VALUE & MEMBER BENEFITS See more Health & Wellness offers > See more Flights & Vacation Packages offers > See more Finances offers > See more Health & Wellness offers > SAVE MONEY WITH THESE LIMITED-TIME OFFERS
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Linda Lavin isn't slowing down as she gets ready to turn 80 on Oct. 15. Cliff Lipson/CBS .”She plays Judy Roberts, the mother of two adult sons. The show's focus is the newly divorced Josh (Royal Pains' Mark Feuerstein, 46), who has moved into a New York City apartment that’s sandwiched between those of his parents and married brother, Andrew (David Walton, 38). And yes, they are in apartments 9J, 9K and 9L.
Surprise: Boundary issues abound. Judy — whose husband, Harry, is played by Elliott Gould, 79 — is focused mainly on poking her nose into her son’s business, romantic and otherwise, and making wildly inappropriate comments. (“We used to be one body,” she says to Josh in the pilot.) , where they turned an abandoned garage into a 50-seat theater that they ran together for five years. Flowers & Gifts 25% off sitewide and 30% off select items See more Flowers & Gifts offers > They now live in rural New York near the Massachusetts border and are transforming a 250-year-old barn into a B&B with five guest suites in the hamlet of Spencertown. They're thinking about calling it Country Suites and plan to hire a manager to run the place. (There will be no chatting with Lavin over your , in other words.)
Devoted to singing for as long as she can remember (even in the crib, Lavin has said), she also has a nightclub act. Last summer she performed at Birdland in Manhattan, belting out jazz standards while telling stories “about my childhood, about my life now,” she says, with a five-piece band that includes Bakunas on drums. In 2011, she released an album of jazzy show tunes called Possibilities.
Lavin took on 9JKL at the request of Feuerstein, who cowrote the pilot with his wife, Dana Klein. Lavin and Feuerstein had grown close playing mother and son in NBC’s short-lived 1998 sitcom Conrad Bloom.
The actress, who turns 80 in October, describes her latest project experience as “really the best time I had on television in a long time.” Lavin can't imagine anything better than the life she is living: “I have everything I want, everything I’ve ever needed, right now.” Linda Lavin and Mark Feuerstein, who plays her son, in "9JKL" Cliff Lipson/CBS More on entertainment AARP NEWSLETTERS %{ newsLetterPromoText }% %{ description }% Subscribe AARP VALUE & MEMBER BENEFITS See more Health & Wellness offers > See more Flights & Vacation Packages offers > See more Finances offers > See more Health & Wellness offers > SAVE MONEY WITH THESE LIMITED-TIME OFFERS