Product Details

• Actors: Ned Glass, Sam Jaffe
• Writers: Arkady Leokum
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Kultur Video
• VHS Release Date: October 14, 2003
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000DI86T
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #602,953 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Be careful what you reveal in desperation, December 31, 2009

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Rizzo (Nowhere) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arkady Leokum's Enemies (Broadway Theatre Archive) (DVD)

Enemies is a wonderful two character, one-act, 45 minute play from the Kultur Broadway Theatre Archives. The setting is a small restaurant in the Catskills, 1971. The two characters, well into their senior years have encountered one another for five years. Gittleman (Sam Jaffe) is a waiter who has to put up with the demanding, harsh and critical insults of customer Miller (Ned Glass), who makes his frequent visit, as he puts it, to eat before the riff raff comes in.

For five years, Miller criticizes the food, the hygiene, the coffee, the menu, the establishment and the final blow is to refer to Gittleman as a lowly waiter who Miller has had to train! Clearly Gittleman and Miller are not friends. Miller is a widowed man has merely enjoyed the pleasures of life that "discount hours" have brought him, clearly a lonely and less expensive existence. But he flaunts a different lifestyle filled with success and happiness. Gittleman is a hard-working family man.

It is the turn of events that makes this play a gem! The two veteran actors have starred in television and movies for years. Ned Glass is known also for his nasal voice while Sam Jaffe for his wild white hair. The two actors both died in 1984. Arkady Leokum is popular for his Tell Me Why: Answers to Hundreds of Questions Children Ask. If you care to see another great play by him, try Neighbors (Broadway Theatre Archive) ....Rizzo

4.0 out of 5 stars TABLE FOR ONE, January 15, 2008

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Guy De Federicis (east of here) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arkady Leokum's Enemies (Broadway Theatre Archive) (DVD)

Short, (50 minutes), one-act play concerning a long suffering waiter, (Sam Jaffe), and his five year relationship with a belittling complaining customer, (Ned Glass). When the waiter reveals a secret, the tables are turned on these 'enemies', creating just enough ripple of drama to make this an amusing piece that lingers in a cloud of deception. The DVD is part of the Broadway Theatre Archive Series.