Author/Actress Kathryn Grody, wife of Mandy Patinkin, wrote a feature article in the March 2002 edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine. The article is about how she learned to love her body, and includes an anecdote about attending the Emmy Awards with Mandy.

Mandy was quoted in a bonus section of the March 4, 2002 edition of Time magazine (Family Edition) in an article about male nannies ("Mannies").

Mandy was featured in 2001 in Show Music magazine. Click here to order a copy online.

Mandy was featured in the October 12 2002 edition of Next Magazine (a New York-based gay-themed publication.)

Now available on video from pbs.org is Mandy's appearance on American in Healing (post 9/11). From a press release in the aftermath of September 11: "Thirteen/WNET New York Continues Its Coverage of the Attack On America With Public Affairs Specials and a Concert Live From Riverside Church This Sunday -- The 90-Minute Concert, AMERICA IN HEALING AT RIVERSIDE CHURCH, Features Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Hampson And Other Performers As Well As Religious Leaders Of All Faiths To Facilitate Collective Healing Process This weekend, Thirteen/WNET New York will present AMERICA IN HEALING AT RIVERSIDE CHURCH, a concert and memorial worship designed to promote hope and commence the healing process for Americans. The interfaith gathering is part of Thirteen's continuing, ongoing line-up of special coverage of the terrorist assault on the United States. Airing live on Sunday, September 16 at 4 p.m. (E.T.) on PBS (check local listings), the 90-minute event will feature performances by Tony Award-winner Mandy Patinkin, renowned baritone Thomas Hampson and other luminaries from the world of classical music, opera, dance, and musical theater. Religious leaders of all faiths will be on hand as well...

All will come together with the performers as a symbolic beginning to America's healing. Patinkin will sing Stephen Sondheim's "Children Will Listen" and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught." Hampson shares his rendition of Aaron Copland's "We Shall Gather at the River," while mezzo-soprano Susan Graham interprets "Make Me a Channel of Your Peace." Members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform, and Tony Award-winner Lillias White will sing "That's Enough for Me." Also featured will be soprano Dawn Upshaw."

Mandy was part of an ABC news segment about the terrorist attacks on America. The segment was about artists expressing their emotion about the tragedy through music. Mandy was shown briefly before his voice was heard singing, with piano accompaniment, "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught/Children Will Listen."Images of various children (some with toy guns, some from Palestine) and images from the past week were shown while the music played.

About the songs, he said the following: "The words to these songs and the unusualness of the lyricists who make these songs... their words are so brilliantly simple. And the terrifying thing about them is how they reflect life every day."

"These words now mean something very different to everyone who listens to them. And it was designed as a prayer for peace."

Mandy was interviewed over the weekend of January 20, 2001 on WABC in New York City.

Showtime is airing a new series called "Queer as Folk" for which several celebrities are providing brief introductions. Mandy has introduced a couple of episodes during the season.

Patinkin and his mother Doralee Patinkin Rubin appeared on the FOOD Network's Celebrity Dish. The pair promoted Grandma Doralee's latest cookbook (see above). Description: "Food Network special Three TV stars will talk about favorite recipes and their family traditions in ''TV Guide Celebrity Dish: The Holidays,'' which airs at 9 p.m. Sunday. Roma Downey of ''Touched By An Angel'' will take viewers to her favorite restaurant in Salt Lake City while Mandy Patinkin (''Chicago Hope'') will offer a tour of his kitchen. Star Jones of ABC's talk show ''The View'' also will take the Food Network along for a visit to the French Culinary Institute."

Patinkin appeared briefly on "Biography - Irving Berlin: An American Song" on A&E. Click to see images and read Patinkin's comments.

Patinkin provides the voiceover in television commercials advertising Procrit (used to treat anemia and the fatigue associated with it).

Mandy n arrates television and radio spots for MetroCard Gold and the Manhattan Transit Authority.

Mandy was formerly the voiceover spokesman for United Airlines in radio and television ads.

The Broadway cast album for The Wild Party, featuring Mandy Patinkin, Toni Collette, and Eartha Kitt, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Musical Show category. Also nominated: Aida; Kiss Me, Kate; Meredith Willson's The Music Man; and Swing! (The winner: Aida.)

The Mandy Patinkin Family was honored at a fundraising gala on November 17, 2001 at Cipriani's in New York City for work on behalf of PAX, an organization which seeks to end gun violence. The Patinkins received the first annual John Price Memorial Award. Mandy Patinkin, wife Kathryn Grody and sons Isaac & Gideon are active supporters of PAX (see, for example,"Patinkin Backs a Bus"). In addition to raising significant funds for PAX at concerts, Mandy and Kathryn have served as members of the PAX Advisory Board. Mandy is also a co-chair (along with fellow celebrities Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash, Andrew Cuomo, Griffin Dunne, Ethan Hawke, Lorne Michaels, Rob Reiner, and Uma Thurman) of the new ASK (Asking Saves Kids) campaign. The campaign encourages parents to ask other parents about guns in the home prior to allowing children to visit.

Upon accepting the award, Mandy said: "I want to see the word ASK everywhere I go, and I want everyone to know what those three letters mean. There is no reason that every corporation in this country should not support this organization. Eventually they will. Thank God we are all so young (and I speak for myself too), because we need our youth, our energy, and our tireless efforts. You must introduce PAX to your business friends. They will take care of the rest. You must bring people to PAX's door. In every bottle of water, when you open it up, I want to see ASK inside the bottle cap. Every time I take an ATM slip out of the machine I want to see ASK. On every Metro card, I want to see the word ASK on it. Everywhere I go I want to see the word ASK. Every time I loop into the internet, I want to see the word ASK. I want it to become as common as the sun rising and setting. And it will happen."

From the August 24, New York Daily News: "Mandy Patinkin, Rosanne Cash and Dominick Dunne joined Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo yesterday at HBO headquarters to unveil its new ad campaign to keep guns away from kids. Patinkin, comforting Carole Price, whose son was a victim of an accidental shooting, said, "In the memory of your son, we will save the lives of all our children." (Thanks to CMG.)

Mandy Patinkin is one of several celebrities who has taped a public service announcement for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urband Development as part of its "Put a Face on Homelessness" media campaign. The campaign is part of HUD's on-going effort to "highlight the plight of the nation's homeless and encourage more Americans to become involved in helping them turn their lives around." HUD's Put a Face on Homelessness PSAs urge Americans to get involved by calling 1-800-HUD-1010, or by visiting HUD's website for a listing of homeless agencies in their communities in need of volunteers. Other actors involved in making the PSAs, including Martin Sheen, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Noth, Gillian Anderson, Harry Belafonte, Blythe Danner, Mandy Patinkin, Daniel Stern, Marlee Matlin, Kevin Kline, Caroline Rhea, Joe Pantoliano, William Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Glenn Close, Nathan Lane, Ray Romano and Matthew Broderick.

Patinkin has appeared previously in promotional spots for the Cleveland Eye Bank, the Red Cross, Guide Dogs for the Blind, and for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. He recently appeared in four brief CBS promotional spots encouraging people to "nurture" their children, "hug" their children,use designated drivers when drinking, and be aware of the dangers of smoking.

Mandy participated in a gala concert celebrating the Centennial of Symphony Hall in Boston on Saturday, October 14, 2000. (The event was broadcast on Boston PBS stations only.) From the press release: "On Saturday evening, October 14, all eyes will focus on a gala televised concert, featuring the BSO, led by Music Director Seiji Ozawa, and the Boston Pops Orchestra, led by Conductor Keith Williams and Laureate Conductor (and Academy Award winner) John Williams. Joining them will be world-renowned guest artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, James Taylor, Mandy Patinkin, The Chieftains and The Harlem Boys Choir."

From the Boston Herald: "[Boston Pops Conductor Keith] Lockhart opened his set with 'Comedy Tonight' from Stephen Sondheim's 'A Funny Thing Hapened on the Way to the Forum,' and closed it with the Grey-Wood-Gibbs 'Runnin' Wild.' In between, Mandy Patinkin took over the proceedings as only he can, offering first a novelty number,'Singin' in the Bathtub,' then a lovely medley of 'Loving You' from Sondheim's 'Passion' and 'If I Loved You' from Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Carousel.'"

..."'Every hall you perform in is either an enemy or a friend. This one embraces your sound and sends it back to you. You can hear the softest whispers in the hall,' noted conductor Keith Lockhart during the same intermission.

Another frequent visitor, singer Mandy Patinkin, smiled and agreed. 'I'm going to keep working with Keith until he really starts showing his age - which will be in another hundred years,' he said."

From the Boston Globe: "Lockhart's chosen soloist was Broadway's Mandy Patinkin, who had sung on Lockhart's opening night as Pops conductor. Patinkin, casual in black T-shirt and sneakers, offered some amusing banter - he said he hoped he could perform long enough in Symphony Hall for Lockhart to look as old as he's supposed to. His singing brought some of the audience to its feet, but to these ears his voice was wobbly and thin-toned, his agony-school phrasing of a medley of Sondheim's ''Loving You'' and Rodgers's ''If I Loved You'' melodramatic. ''Singin' in the Bathtub'' is a novelty number that segues into ''The Barber of Seville'' and ''Singin' in the Rain'' and Patinkin trotted out every trick in his extensive repertoire, including a flirtation with concertmaster Tamara Smirnova and the aging stripper's vulgar gimmick of humiliating an innocent balding gentleman in the audience."

A benefit to raise money for the fight against breast cancer was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City on September 22, 2001 at 7:30pm. Mandy Patinkin was the Master of Ceremonies. Click for photo and additional information. Artists who performed: Sir Andre Previn, Conductor and Piano; Juilliard String Quartet; Joan Kwuon, Violin; Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano; Evelyn Lear, Guest Artist; Donna Murphy, Vocalist; and the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra. The benefit was presented by Artists for Breast Cancer Survival.

Mandy Patinkin appears as his mentor Joe Papp (of the Public Theater and New York Shakespeare Festival) in the biopic "Pinero" with Benjamin Bratt, Rita Moreno, Giancarlo Esposito, and Talisa Soto. Shooting began on September 15, 2000 in New York City (locations for this film included New York City and Puerto Rico). Bratt stars as Miguel Pinero, an urban poet and playwright whose work is viewed as the "precursor to rap and hip hop music." The film debuted in theaters on December 7, 2001.

Mandy narrated a segment about torture of individuals in Iraq for Amnesty International's "infomercial" video "Light in the Darkness." Other actors who taped segments to raise awareness and funds for Amnesty International include Martin Sheen, Annette Bening, Camryn Mannheim, Jason Alexander, Ernie Hudson, and Peri Gilpin. Click to view a real video excerpt from Patinkin's segment, hear the real audio portion, or view screen captures. To find out more about Amnesty International, visit the AI website.

A documentary about Joseph Papp (Mandy's mentor and friend) is a "six-act" documentary to air on PBS, featuring many individuals associated with Papp and The Public Theater. The film will explore the "achievements and controversies of the American theater director/producer Joseph Papp" and is the work of filmmakers Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen (partially funded by a grant from the NEA and The Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking). The Papp Project "will use the life and work of theatrical producer/director Joseph Papp as a means of exploring the larger questions of assimilation and Jewish cultural identity. Appearing in the documentary will be Joseph Papp, Mandy Patinkin, Colleen Dewhurst, Olympia Dukakis, Martin Sheen, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, James Earl Jones, Raul Julia, George C. Wolfe and many others.

According to the New York Foundation for the Arts (which is sponsoring the film): "A feature-length documentary film currently being made for an international audience. Simultaneously a biographical portrait and an incisive analysis of American Culture, this film will explore our nations cultural identity through a very specific prism: the life and work of theatrical producer/director Joe Papp (1921-1991) - a man who dared to put a different America on center stage."

Patinkin was featured on a new series on the Bravo channel on Sunday, September 24 2001. 'Influences' "brings the past and present together to illustrate television's significant place in history. Hosted by Alan Alda, 'Influences' explores the work of prominent television writers, directors, actors and comedians by examining the influences from the past that have formed their careers. Half-hour episodes feature guests--including Tracy Ullman, Roseanne, Mandy Patinkin and David Chase--telling their own personal stories of inspiration, struggle and ultimate success. Archival clips of both the subjects' own work and that of their influences are used throughout the episode for further illustration."

Mandy was featured on Metro Arts Thirteen in New York giving a tour of Yeshiva University Museum in New York City in introductory segments throughout a weeklong schedule. Originally, airing the week of September 11, 2001, the segments was rebroadcast the week of October 23. Click for more information.

May 2001: The financial markets may be seesawing, but that is not preventing universities from starting large fund-raising campaigns. Yeshiva University is beginning a $400 million capital campaign...

The Jewish Theological Seminary has also kicked off a campaign to raise $250 million... MANDY PATINKIN, the actor and singer, is honorary chairman. In the nonpublic phase of the campaign, the seminary raised $126 million.

January 18, 2001, The New York Post: "Oneness with the universe is one thing, but Tibetan Buddhist Richard Gere apparently finds the company of non-stars hard to take. At the New York Film Critics' Circle Awards at Windows on the World, a score of guests, including several important critics, had to wait so that the white-haired star and girlfriend Carey Lowell could take the 40-person elevator by themselves. Tom Hanks, Matthew Broderick, Jeanne Moreau, Mandy Patinkin, Steven Soderbergh, Conan O'Brien (who gave the evening's funniest speech) and Laura Linney had no problem mingling with the masses."

October 19, 2000 New York Times, in an article about the financial and other woes of "The Wild Party": 'Despite the assurances from Mr. Lerer and Mr. Lynton, Mr. Rudin said, the situation remained unchanged, and soon there were other flash points. High among them, he said, was the erratic behavior onstage of the show's male lead, Mandy Patinkin, who also regularly missed performances, more than 20 over all.

Mr. Rudin said that Mr. Wolfe abdicated responsibility. "Decisive action needed to be taken to make the other 15 actors onstage feel they were as important as Mr. Patinkin," Mr. Rudin said. Mr. Patinkin declined to comment. Mr. Wolfe would only say he believed he acted appropriately.'

From the May 21, 2000edition of the New York Times: "Two members of the Tony nominating committee resigned this year. A. R. Gurney, the playwright, said he resigned because he was not permitted to abstain from the vote on whether Mandy Patinkin should be nominated for best actor in a musical. Mr. Patinkin had been absent from the performance Mr. Gurney attended of "The Wild Party." "I just didn't think it was fair to vote for or against him if I hadn't seen him," Mr. Gurney said."

Mandy Patinkin and Kevin Kline served as co-chairs for a gala dinner on May 24, 2000to honor the late Joseph Papp (founder of the Public Theatre and New York Shakespeare Festival). Read more about it at broadway.com. [Mandy did not attend this event, as he was performing in The Wild Party that evening. However, he did send a tribute message for the event on videotape]

Patinkin attended a Sweeney Todd Concert Gala dinner at Lincoln Center on May 4, 2000 honoring Stephen Sondheim [a New York Philharmonic production featuring former Patinkin costars Patti Lupone (Evita) and Audra MacDonald (Leonard Bernstein's New York)]. Click to view photos.

"On April 27 (2000) Manhattan felt as wholesome as River City, Iowa as Broadway's elite welcomed The Music Man back to Broadway. After being welcomed by a high school marching band, partygoers at the Marriott Marquis Hotel were encouraged to dress up in period costumes for keepsake photographs. Star Craig Bierko attracted many of his Hollywood friends to the soiree, including Helen Hunt, Hank Azaria, Kristen Johnson and Chicago star Sharon Lawrence. Speaking of Broadway stars, Wild Party leads Toni Collette, Eartha Kitt and Mandy Patinkin as well as Jesus 2000 (Superstar's Glenn Carter) stopped in after their respective shows. A good old-fashioned time was had by all. " --broadway.com

From an interview with George Wolfe, writer-director of The Wild Party at broadway.com:

Question: "Do you have any comment to The Post's story about Mandy Patinkin's alleged bad behavior behind the scenes?"

Answer: "I don't really have a comment but my general comment is that artists are very peculiar people. If you scrutinize anyone's behavior, you might go, "Oh my God. What's wrong with that person?" If you isolate anyone's behavior away from a situation° and in this piece [the performers are] exposing themselves and revealing themselves to incredibly dark and intense places. It produces very interesting dynamics in the rehearsal room and that's just part of the process. Every show I've worked on, from Jelly's Last Jam to Angels in America, had moments where all kinds of insane madness took over. It just happens. Perfectly rational, functioning people end up going to extremes because the material takes you there. To isolate that behavior and present it as if the person's working at IBM is incorrect. " (Click to read original Post article.)

The Wild Party closed on June 11, 2000 after failing to win any Tony Awards on June 4 (despite several nominations). A closing announcement was posted on June 6. Read more about it at theatre.com and broadway.com. The Wild Party (a musical adaptation of the 1928 poem by Joseph Moncure March) starred Mandy Patinkin (as Burrs), Toni Collette ("Sixth Sense"), and Eartha Kitt. You can read more about The Wild Party at the official website (part of the Public Theater's site). Previews began on March 10, 2000. Opening night was April 13.

On television: Gilda's Club: A Legacy for Life -- The legacy of comedienne Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989, is recalled in this program narrated by Mandy Patinkin. It chronicles the history and development of Gilda's Club, a network of safe havens created for cancer patients and their families. Interviews with Radner's friends and family are also featured along with clips of Radner herself speaking about her illness.Airdate: Monday, June 5, 7 PM -- Discovery Health Channel [Patinkin is a member of the Founding Development Committee of Gilda's Club.]

Mandy Patinkin was a nominee for GQ Man of the Year in the Theater category in 2000. Other nominees: Matthew Broderick, Gabriel Byrne, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Brian Stokes Mitchell, John C. Reilly, Tom Stoppard, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Walken.

The cast of the Wild Party recorded the cast album of "The Wild Party" in mid-April 2000. The cast album was released on May 23. Click to read more about it. Read Ken Mandelbaum's review at broadway.com.

Patinkin appears on the Adam Guettel CD "Myths and Hyms". He sings one track on the album, titled "Sisyphus".

Patinkin is one of many artists featured on a new CD called "To Life!: Songs Of Chanukah & Other Jewish Celebrations". (From Rhino Records.)

Mandy Patinkin was nominated for a Tony Award in the category Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for The Wild Party (which was also nominated as Best Musical) in 2000. Mandy won a Tony Award in 1979 for Evita (and was nominated previously for his work as Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park With George.) Also nominated in the Leading Actor in a Musical category: Craig Bierko (Meredith Willson's The Music Man), George Hearn (Putting It Together), Brian Stokes Mitchell [the winner] (Kiss Me, Kate), and Christopher Walken (James Joyce's The Dead). The nominees for Best Musical: Contact, James Joyce's The Dead, Swing!, and The Wild Party. For a complete list of nominees or more information, visit the Tony Awards website.

Nominees attended a brunch (with press and photo opportunities) on May 17, 2000.

From theatermania.com: "That sound you heard during the reading of the nominations was a huge, collective sigh from everyone associated with The Wild Party; the nominating committee provided a lifeline to the Michael John LaChiusa/George C. Wolfe show in the form of seven nominations, including Best Musical. (It had been widely rumored that the show³which has been floundering at the box office would have immediately posted a closing notice had it not been among the Best Musical hopefuls.) " Read more...

An assessment of the Best Actor in a Musical category from playbill.com:

"Mandy Patinkin, in The Wild Party There is nothing equivocal about Patinkin: He always makes fearless acting choices and pushes the envelope of intensity. At The Wild Party, his fans are eating up his performance as Burrs, a violent vaudeville clown who performs as a "coon singer," in blackface, a la Al Jolson. Patinkin, remembered as Che in Evita, Uncle Archie in The Secret Garden and George in Sunday in the Park With George, delivers the vocal fireworks, and his get-out-of-the-way showing (true to the source material) articulates how utterly menacing the character is. Without menace, there is no Wild Party.

Analysis: Patinkin (for his history and his passion) and 2000 Drama Desk Award-winner Mitchell (for his ability to break out of musical drama and cross into musical comedy) are considered the favorites here, although Tony voters tend to like it when movie stars such as Walken bring attention to Broadway (his limited singing voice may be a handicap). Bierko is appealing, but seen as a longshot due to his lack of Broadway history and the fact that some perceive his role as forever belonging to Preston, whose soundalike performance is captured on film. Don't count out Hearn, a dark horse whose performance was viewed as masterful, sophisticated and dignified."

Patinkin was given an award in 2000 for his commitment to theater at a fund-raiser for the Joseph Papp New York Shakespeare Festival. He gave a 25-minute acceptance speech. According to the New York Daily News:

"Mandy Patinkin threatened to talk all night during his acceptance speech at Monday's Pier 60 gala, where he was honored for his commitment to the theater.

This couldn't have been good news to those in attendance, including Bob Pittman, Ahmet Ertegun, Ken Auletta, Jonathan Alter, Marc Green, Tom Freston, Lorne Michaels, and Woody and Sale Johnson, who had showed up to support the Public Theater.

Thankfully, Patinkin was only kidding.

The actor said the event marked the first time he has allowed anyone to present him with an award. "I didn't think I was near enough to be dead to receive one," he explained.

Patinkin credited the Public Theater and its founder, the late Joseph Papp, for giving him the life he has today.

After thanking his wife, Kathryn Grody, and paying tribute to Papp for being a substitute father to him (Patinkin lost his own father at age 18), he concluded his speech by saying, "I only want to say another 30 things, because I never know when I'm going to accept another award."

Patinkin was nominated for a Grammy (along with Betty Buckley and Walter Cronkite) for the audio recording of "The Diaries of Adam and Eve" for Fair Oaks Audio. Other nominees in the spoken word category include: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (LeVar Burton for Time Warner Audiobooks), John Glatt's The Chieftains - The Authorized Biography (Nanci Griffith for The Publishing Mills), Merle Haggard and Tom Carter's Merle Haggard's My House of Memories - For The Record (Merle Haggard for Harper Audio), and Frank McCourt's 'Tis (Frank McCourt for Simon and Schuster). (Levar Burton took home the Grammy.)

The Diaries of Adam and Eve was awarded a 2000 Audie Award by Audio Publishers in the category of Multi-Voiced Narration.

The Diaries of Adam and Eve was awarded a Listen Up Award by Publishers Weekly in the category of Celebrity Reading.

Mandy was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Chicago Hope in 1999. Other nominees in the same category: Tony Danza (The Practice), Charles S. Dutton (Oz), John Heard (The Sopranos), and Edward Herrmann (The Practice). [Edward Herrmann won the award, which was presented on August 28 at the Pasadena Civic. The regular Emmy broadcast is on TV on September 12 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles (on FOX).]

Patinkin narrated an episode of The American Experience about Houdini, which airs on PBS stations.

Patinkin is interviewed briefly in the documentary film "Speaking In Strings" about the life and career of violin virtuoso Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, who was featured on Patinkin's Mamaloshen album. The film was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, various other film festivals and in museums. Reviewer Donald Rosenberg wrote of Salerno-Sonnenberg: "She is particularly admired by actor-singer Mandy Patinkin, no blushing wallflower himself.

"We're rebels," he says. "We love the rules, because they're there to break."

The program has been featured on The Sundance Channel.

Patinkin wrote the introduction to his mother's second cookbook, "Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Holiday Cookbook." He is also featured in photographs on the book jacket. Click to view. [Previously, Patinkin wrote the forward to his mother's first cookbook, "Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook".]

Patinkin recorded an audiobook with Betty Buckley in the Fall of 1998 titled "The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain". (Patinkin reads 'Adam'.) It was released by Fair Oaks Audio in both CD and casette format in September 1999. Walter Cronkite provides the narration. According to the publisher, "It turns out that Mandy has quite an affinity for Twain. As he put it, 'We were born on the same day...but not the same year!' ...Mandy was a joy to work with; Twain's humor broke him up at times, and he read some of the tender, heartbreaking lines so untypical of Twain over and over until he was satisfied. The several bits of dialog with Betty are especially nice." The audiobook is a two-hour unabridged listener's edition. Click to read more.

 

"Belz", a song from Patinkin's Mamaloshen CD, can be heard in the film "Liberty Heights."

Lulu on The Bridge (which originally screened at the Cannes Film Festival and in Australia/Europe) went straight to video in the U.S. on September 21, 1999. A press kit, including information and photos, from Mandy's film, Lulu On The Bridge , can be found online here.

Patinkin sings "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in Yiddish in the closing credits of a biographic film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg about a famous Jewish baseball player. The film debuted at a Canadian film festival.

Sunday in the Park With George was released on DVD and Laser Disc on March 23, 1999 by Image Entertainment. The DVD and Laser Disc include commentary by Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin on secondary audio channels.

Also available on DVD: The Princess Bride and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. (Patinkin plays the evil Huxley and sings and "dances" in the production number "Make it Mine" in the latter.)

Read the February 14, 1995 Chicago Hope Chat Log (attended by Mandy Patinkin and Adam Arkin)

Mandy began performing as a youth, singing in choir and performing in musical productions (such as "Carousel", "West Side Story", and "Anything Goes") at his local Jewish Community Center in Chicago.

Mandy peformed on two children's recordings while at Julliard, "The Light In The Forest" and "Johnny Tremain".

Mandy a ppears with Jane Curtain on "The Butterfly Jar" by Jeff Moss, a collection of children's poetry readings.

Mandy n arrated the video for the children's story "The Polar Express" (available in the children's video section at public libraries).

Patinkin performed in BBC Radio Productions of "Guys and Dolls" (playing Sky Masterson) and "Carousel" (playing Billy Bigelow).

Mandy recorded the audiobook "Imagining Argentina" (out of print, but available in some public libraries).

Early in his career, Mandy appeared in 7-Up commercials as the "Teen Angel" and promoted Frosted Mini Wheats.

Mandy w rote the introduction to "The Jewish American Family Album". (Which includes a few photos of the Patinkin family and young Mandy's bar mitzvah photo.)

Mandy wrote the introduction to "Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook". (A cookbook written, with Mandy's encouragement, by his mother.) (Click for recipes for Chicken Soup and Matzo Balls, Butter Crisps, Tuna Burgers, Thousand-Island Potato salad and Carrot Pudding.)

Mandy's wife, Kathryn Grody, is an accomplished actor and writer. She penned a book titled "A Mom's Life", which began as a solo stage performance based upon her experiences as a mother. She also contributed many weekly columns to Parent Soup (on America Online and the World Wide Web) from 1996 to early 1997.

Patinkin lobbied Congress in 1985 to stop the United States' support of the contras against the Nicaraguan government. "With some exceptions, those who come usually have well-defined views. What matters to us is how well they lobby when they return," a Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry source told United Press International. After visiting Nicaragua with actor Mandy Patinkin, he [John Holum] and Patinkin had numerous appointments on Capitol Hill to give their "expert" assessment. "Mandy's going to talk and I'm going to explain what he said," Holum told UPI in April 1985. "This country is trying a third alternative, not complete socialism, not complete capitalism. It is not too late to begin helping them."--WorldNetDaily