Occupation Writer Name Babaloo Mandel | Role Screenwriter | |
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Born November 13, 1949 (age 74) ( 1949-11-13 ) New York City, United States Spouse Denise Madelyn Horn (m. 1974) TV shows Knight & Daye, Hiller and Diller, Take Five, Gung Ho Awards National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay Nominations Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay Movies Splash, Tooth Fairy, Robots, Parenthood, A League of Their O Similar People Lowell Ganz, Jennifer Ventimilia, Brian Grazer, Randi Mayem Singer, Michael Lembeck | ||
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Marc "Babaloo" Mandel (born October 13, 1949) is an American screenwriter. After doing television episodes, he also began writing for feature films. He and long-time writing partner Lowell Ganz have penned numerous high-profile movies, including Splash (1984), Parenthood (1989), City Slickers (1991) and A League of Their Own (1992).
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- Screenwriters lowell ganz babaloo mandel tricks of the tr
- The dialogue lowell ganz babaloo mandel interview part 1
- Biography
- Partial television credits
- References
The dialogue lowell ganz babaloo mandel interview part 1
Biography
Mandel was born in New York City, the son of a taxi driver. He attended the New York Institute of Technology, before leaving for Hollywood in 1972.
There he met Ganz. It was Ganz who gave him the nickname "Babaloo", after the character Babaloo Mandel in Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint. Mandel and Ganz were featured in The Dialogue interview series. In the 90-minute interview with producer Mike DeLuca, they discussed their 40-year partnership as it evolved from television to feature films.
Both men worked on the television series Happy Days, Mandel as a creative consultant, Ganz as supervising producer. As a result of that connection, they were offered their first big break - the movie Night Shift - by series star Ron Howard and his friend, producer Brian Grazer. Howard directed Nightshift, and it was Grazer's first feature film as producer. The writing duo later reteamed with Howard on Splash, for which Mandel, Ganz and Bruce Jay Friedman won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay. Mandel, Ganz, Friedman and Grazer were also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
The pair also wrote for the television series Laverne & Shirley. They were the screenwriters for the 1992 sports movie A League of Their Own, directed by "Laverne" (Penny Marshall).
Mandel was one of the "winners" of the 1992 Razzie for Worst Screenplay for The Flintstones.
He married Denise Madelyn (Horn) in 1974. They have six children, including a set of triplets.
The Online Archive of California has the Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel Collection of material related to their writing careers.