Antonio Ferme authorBen Halpern, a longtime United Artists and Universal film and TV publicist, died on Saturday. He was 99.Born in 1921 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Halpern was the fourth and youngest child of Jewish immigrants from Tarnopol, central Europe.
As a small child, he enjoyed exploring the city on his own, collecting film scraps from projectionists to make slide shows for his siblings.
He also loved going g to all of the theaters in his neighborhood with his parents.This growing interest in cinema led Halpern to New York University’s nascent film school, where he left shortly after to enlist in the Army Air Corps.
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