A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Thursday posthumously honoring Andy Kaufman for a career best remembered for his portrayal of mechanic Latka Gravas on “Taxi” and a variety of outlandish moments.
Kaufman's “Taxi” castmate Marilu Henner, former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kevin Nealon and Kristen Schaal spoke at the late-morning ceremony at 1555 Vine St., between Selma Avenue and Sunset Boulevard.
Schaal was selected to be one of the speakers because she was the 2005 recipient of The Andy Kaufman Award, created by his family to preserve his legacy. It honors “promising cutting-edge artists with fresh and unconventional material, for those willing to take risks with an audience, and for those who do not define themselves by the typical conventions of comedy,” according to its website.Get Southern California news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox.
Born Jan. 17, 1949, in New York City and raised Great Neck, Long Island, Kaufman began his career in 1971 performing at various small comedy clubs on the East Coast after graduating from the now-defunct Grahm Junior College in Boston. Kaufman's act included the character Foreign Man, who spoke in a meek, high-pitched, heavily accented voice and claimed to be from “Caspiar," a fictional island in the Caspian Sea, and who would play a recording of the theme from the “Mighty Mouse” cartoon show while standing perfectly still, and lip-sync only the line “Here I come to save the day" with great enthusiasm.
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