France reckons with Nazilooted art in new Paris museum gallery THOMAS ADAMSON Tue, May 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM UTC 0 1 / 0France Naziera ArtFrench painter PierreAuguste Renoir's painting titled Madame Alphonse Daudet is on exhibit at the Musée d'Orsay museum's new permanent gallery dedicated to socalled MNR artworks, pieces recovered after World War II whose ownership remains uncertain, in Paris, Monday, May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) () PARIS (AP) — The painting shows a girl in a bonnet and her younger brother staring across the Normandy coast toward an unknown horizon.

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1 / 0France Nazi-era ArtFrench painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting titled Madame Alphonse Daudet is on exhibit at the Musée d'Orsay museum's new permanent gallery dedicated to so-called MNR artworks, pieces recovered after World War II whose ownership remains uncertain, in Paris, Monday, May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) ()

PARIS (AP) — The painting shows a girl in a bonnet and her younger brother staring across the Normandy coast toward an unknown horizon.

The artwork itself faced an unknown future in 1942, when it was acquired in Paris for Adolf Hitler, one of countless works swept up in the Nazi plunder of European Jews.

On Tuesday, it went on permanent display in a new room at the city's Musée d’Orsay as part of France’s long-delayed reckoning with Nazi-era looting. The gallery is the first in the museum's history given over to the orphaned masterpieces of the Nazi era.

It is also the first such display in France where the paintings are hung so visitors can read the backs. The stamps, labels and inventory marks map how each piece of art moved from private homes into Nazi hands.

The painting by Belgian artist Alfred Stevens was originally earmarked for the Führer’s planned museum in Linz, Austria. But by 1943, it was reassigned to Hitler’s mountain home in the Bavaria region of Germany. The museum was never built following Germany's defeat.

Allied recovery teams — the Monuments Men made famous by the 2014 George Clooney film — finally found the painting after the war.

No heir came forward, and no one knows who owned it before 1942.

A collection of unclaimed art

The 1891 Stevens painting is not unique. It is one of 2,200 such artistic orphans in France — known as MNR, short for Musées Nationaux Récupération, or National Museums Recovery. These artworks were retrieved from Germany and Austria after 1945 and entrusted to French national museums in the early 1950s.

They were never claimed. The state does not own them but holds them in trust for heirs who may yet appear. The Musée d’Orsay holds 225 such pieces.

Marie Duboisse, a retired schoolteacher from Lyon, paused Tuesday in front of the Stevens painting.

“I have seen those three letters — M, N, R — at the Louvre. I never knew what they meant. I thought it was a donor,” she said.

Last month, the museum launched its first research unit dedicated to tracing the orphans’ rightful heirs, file by file. The effort involves six Franco-German researchers led by Ines Rotermund-Reynard, the Orsay’s head of provenance research.

The new gallery displays 13 such works.

France’s long-delayed reckoning

France is reckoning, in plain sight, with one of the longest silences in its postwar memory: the looted, sold and lost art of the Nazi era — and the French hands that helped move it.

Starting in the late 1960s, documentaries and historians began naming what France had done under the Vichy government that cooperated with the Nazis, including helping to send 80,000 Jews from France to their deaths and presiding over a Paris art market that grew rich on the property of the dead.

In July 1995, President Jacques Chirac stood at the site of the Vél d’Hiv roundup — the 1942 mass arrest in Paris of Jews who were then deported to Nazi camps — and said, for the first time, that the French state itself bore responsibility. In 1997, France launched a national inquiry into the plundering of artwork from Jews.

About 100,000 cultural objects were declared looted from France during the war. Some 60,000 were recovered. About 45,000 went home.

Roughly 15,000 had no identified owner. The 2,200 MNR artworks were chosen from that remainder.

For four decades, they were largely a dormant file. Between 1954 and 1993, France returned only four.

Chirac’s mea culpa, and the country’s slow reckoning with its own role, changed that.

The Orsay has returned 15 since 1994.

The market that fed the plunder

The most recent pieces of art to be returned — by Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir, given to the heirs of Grégoire Schusterman — went home in 2024.

Inside the new gallery, the histories hang on the wall.

There is a piece by Edward Degas, a copy he made of a Berlin ballroom scene around 1879. The Jewish collector Fernand Ochsé bought it in 1919. Ochsé was deported to Auschwitz and killed.

There is another Renoir, a portrait of the writer Alphonse Daudet’s wife, sold to a Cologne museum in November 1941. No record names the seller.

There is also a painting by Paul Cézanne that was dismissed as a fake by a Louvre curator in the 1950s. Recent study suggests it may be real.

Daniel Lévy, a software engineer visiting from Strasbourg, stood at the Cézanne, looking at its back.

“You walk past these labels your whole life and you do not read them. Now I will read them," he said. "My grandmother lost some of her family in the camps. Some of these paintings were probably hanging in homes like hers.”

Paris was Western Europe's richest art hub in the early 20th century.

The Hôtel Drouot, the city’s main auction house, reopened in autumn 1940 and ran briskly through the Nazi occupation.

French dealers were among the conduits. German museums sent buyers, and Hitler’s agents took the best.

“The most important art market in Europe was concentrated in Paris,” Rotermund-Reynard said. “The moment the Nazis arrived in occupied territory, they had enormous buying power. They threw themselves at the market.”

Germans were eager buyers

Almost every museum in Nazi Germany, Rotermund-Reynard said, sent buyers to Paris to expand its collections. Those buyers drew on a market thick with looted and forced-sale property.

“Hitler himself wanted to build the world’s largest museum, in Linz, the city in Austria where he grew up,” she said.

Hermann Göring, Hitler’s deputy, traveled 21 times to Paris during the occupation to help himself to works taken from Jewish collectors.

“There was an enormous thirst,” Rotermund-Reynard said, “both for the possessions of Jewish collectors, and for acquisitions to expand the German museums.”

For Rotermund-Reynard, the works cannot be separated from the genocide.

“All of this is part of the history of the Shoah,” she said, using the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. “When you try to understand this drive to take from Jewish families, it is part of the terrifying Nazi ideology to erase Jewish life.”

Antisemitic acts in France — home to Europe’s largest Jewish community — hit 1,320 in 2025, according to the French Interior Ministry. Those near-record levels followed a sharp surge after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.

The gallery was not built to fight antisemitism, said François Blanchetière, the Orsay’s chief sculpture curator and co-curator of the gallery. But the consequences of the Holocaust must be repaired, he said.

“There is no statute of limitations on these crimes," he said.

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Starmer warns Iran’s attempts to destabilise British society ‘will not be tolerated’ Athena StavrouTue, May 5, 2026 at 10:42 AM UTC 0 Sir Keir Starmer said attempts by Iran to destabilise British society “will not be tolerated” amid suspicion Tehran could be stirring up antisemitism. The prime minister said the government was investigating whether foreign states could be behind recent attacks on the Jewish community in the UK.

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Sir Keir Starmer said attempts by Iran to destabilise British society “will not be tolerated” amid suspicion Tehran could be stirring up antisemitism.

The prime minister said the government was investigating whether foreign states could be behind recent attacks on the Jewish community in the UK.

Speaking to leaders of community groups, senior government ministers and police chiefs following a knife attack in Golders Green last week, Sir Keir warned there would be “consequences” if Iran were found to be responsible.

“One of the lines of inquiry is whether a foreign state has been behind some of these incidents,” he said.

“We are investigating, of course, all the possibilities. And we are clear that these actions will have consequences if that proves to be the case.

“Our message to Iran, or to any other country that might seek to foment violence, hatred or division in society, is that it will not be tolerated.”

The prime minister said the government was investigating whether foreign states such as Iran could have been behind recent antisemitic attacks in the UK (AFP/Getty)

Describing the situation as a “crisis” in the wake of the attack in north London last week, Sir Keir said new legislation would be rushed through to tackle “malign threats”.

The government has promised a new law to allow it to take action against state-backed groups amid calls for the proscription of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Sir Keir told the meeting that although essential, security is “not enough”, as he vowed to “deal with the forces that drive this hatred in the first place”.

“We’re clear-eyed about the fact that antisemitism does not have one source alone: Islamists, far left, far right extremism, all target Jewish communities,” he said.

“That is why this government has put in place the first coordinated national plan to strengthen cohesion and confront extremism in all of its forms.”

Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a meeting with leaders from across society to discuss tackling antisemitism (Reuters)

Jewish communities across England are set to receive an extra £1m in government funding to pay for community safety work and projects aimed at countering antisemitism.

The funding follows the £25m announced last week in response to the attack in Golders Green to provide more security for the community.

Two Jewish men, Shloime Rand, 34, and Norman Shine, 76, were stabbed during a knife rampage through the streets of the north London suburb last week.

Alleged attacker Essa Suleiman, 45, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday and was remanded in custody.

The attack, which has been declared a terror incident by police, is the latest in a string of violent incidents against Jewish people.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (centre) and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley (right) meeting emergency personnel from Shomrim North West London (Stefan Rousseau/PA) (PA Wire)

The location of the attacks is near where four Jewish community ambulances were destroyed by fire in late March.

Separately on Tuesday, counter-terror police are investigating an arson attack at a former synagogue in Tower Hamlets, east London.

Jewish security charity Shomrim said fire crews were called out to the building in Nelson Street, Whitechapel, east London, in the early hours. Minor damage was caused to a set of gates and a lock at the front of the building, the Met Police said. There were no reports of injuries.

At a meeting of senior figures from the police, representatives from the arts, higher education, trade unions and businesses on Tuesday, Sir Keir said the government has ordered an independent audit of how allegations of antisemitism are handled.

“This will be a hard-edge review of where systems are failing,” he said. “We will not, and cannot, accept complacency, delays or weak enforcement, and where inconsistency is found, it will be challenged and addressed swiftly.”

He also promised new action to implement a “zero tolerance” approach to antisemitism on university campuses and action in the arts.

Universities will now be expected to “demonstrate action” to tackle antisemitism among students, while the Arts Council will be expected to withdraw funding and claw it back from anyone who is found to promote antisemitism.

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Cal Raleigh returns to Mariners lineup, facing Braves after 3game absence with injury Teddy RicketsonTue, May 5, 2026 at 10:12 PM UTC 0 Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh had missed three games due to tightness on his right side. There was speculation that Raleigh may be heading to the injured list, but he is making his return to the lineup on Tuesday night, batting second against the Atlanta Braves.

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Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh had missed three games due to tightness on his right side. There was speculation that Raleigh may be heading to the injured list, but he is making his return to the lineup on Tuesday night, batting second against the Atlanta Braves.

Raleigh had been sidelined since May 1, listed on the team’s injury report with side soreness, and there were reports on Monday that the catcher would be undergoing an MRI to determine if he would need a stint on the injured list to fully recover. While Raleigh had the MRI, the results have not been released.

It remains to be seen if Raleigh is fully healthy. Seattle could be having him DH to get him some game reps to see how he has progressed in recovering, but for now, it looks like he has avoided an immediate stint on the IL.

The catcher was asked about the injury on Monday. He downplayed it and said, “Everything is good, just taking it day by day.”

Manager Dan Wilson was asked about Raleigh’s health on Monday, and he said his catcher was in a good spot and that a decision on his heading to the IL would be “forthcoming here in the next day or so.”

Raleigh made history in the 2025 season, hitting 60 home runs, the most for a catcher in a single season in MLB history. He was not able to sustain that success into the early part of the 2026 campaign. Raleigh does have seven home runs in 33 games, but is batting just .186 with a .652 OPS.

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Joel McHale wanted to be a part of *Community *from the moment he read the pilot script way back in 2009.

Written by Dan Harmon, the series premiere introduced the world to Jeff Winger (McHale), an ex-lawyer who was forced to enroll at Greendale Community College after his law firm found out he faked his college degree. Cynical and manipulative, Winger hoped to breeze threw the community college without developing any attachments; however, he ends up creating a study group comprised of (mostly) lovable misfits in order to sleep with his classmate Britta (Gillian Jacobs). Suit jacket and sweatpants notwithstanding, McHale related to the character when he read the pilot.

"I think I liked the character so much because he was someone who participates with their arm extended," he tells EW in the latest installment EW's *BINGE* of *Community*. "They're like, 'Yeah, yeah, I'll do it, but just let's just calm down.' [I liked] that he was always very reticent to do anything but was game to do it. And that is kind of how I am. I'm always skeptical to a fault and sarcastic and a cynic to a fault. And it was just such a well-written script and I would've sawed off a pinkie to do it. I didn't do that, but I would have."

He continues: "You'd read some scripts and you go, 'Well, this looks like it's going to be done in a year.' Like, 'How can they maintain this level of whatever they're doing?' And this one was a sandbox that you could like [say], 'Oh, Dan can do anything he wants here and he did.' The only sort of looming goal was graduation and Pierce [Chevy Chase] proved that you never had to leave."

*Community *definitely rewarded McHale's belief that the possibilities were endless in that first season, which grew bolder with almost each episode. By the end of season 1, the NBC sitcom had done a *Goodfellas* homage ("Contemporary American Poultry") and a paintball episode ("Modern Warfare") that was a send-up of action movies and directed by Justin Lin.

"To be honest here, I didn't feel a switch. It all seemed to make sense to me," says McHale. "I just never went, 'Oh well, this show's getting *crazy*.' I never did anything like that."

That being said, McHale does remember how excited he was to receive each script and go to work every day. "I was getting to do what I always wanted to do. I always wanted to be on a good television show and act. And so I was skipping to work every day," he says. "I couldn't believe how cool the show was and how I got to be on it and how blessed I was. So there wasn't anything where like, 'Oh man, how am I going to do this one? This is the greatest challenge.' It was more just like, 'I can't believe I get to do this and try this and hopefully I'll be good at it.'"

For more from McHale on season 1, including his thoughts on the surprising finale, watch the latest installment of EW's* BINGE *of* Community* above. And check back on Saturday for season 2's episode with Yvette Nicole Brown and Ken Jeong.

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***To celebrate *****Community***** finally arriving on Netflix, EW is binging the beloved comedy with the cast and creator.***

First seasons are notoriously tough, as the actors work to embody their characters and the writers try to nail down the exact show that they want to be making. This trial and error eventually leads to the right formula, paving way for a season 2 in which everyone is firing on all cylinders. In fact, the sophomore installments are often the peak of a show, whether it be *The Office*, *Sons of Anarchy*, and, arguably, *Community*.

"You could tell there was a confidence and excitement and stories to be told on *Community* that makes the second season so special and so genre-bending," says Ken Jeong on the latest episode of EW's *BINGE* of *Community*, which can be watched above. "I remember the first five or six episodes, they were all high-concept. They were all just on a paintball level. After the *Apollo 13* episode ("Basic Rocket Science"), I looked at Danny [Pudi], we were just walking back to set from the table read, and we were like, 'Is every episode going to be like this? This blows my mind.' I felt like every week the writers were trying to top themselves, in terms of concept, in terms of originality. We just looked at each other like, 'Wow. This is like Christmas every day.'"

On season 2's installment of *BINGE*, hosts Chancellor Agard and Derek Lawrence are joined together by Jeong and Yvette Nicole Brown, who played Ben Chang and Shirley Bennett, respectively. The duo were a natural pair on the episode considering one of the bigger season 2 story lines centers on Shirley and Chang's zombie-fueled hookup in the Halloween-set "Epidemiology" and the subsequent mystery over the paternity of Shirley's unborn son. "I found out in the table read," recalls Brown. "We were shocked." Adds Jeong: "You basically saw where anything and everything is possible on *Community*."

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In the end, the baby would be named Ben, but the father turned out to be her ex-husband Andre, played by *Cosby Show* alum Malcom-Jamal Warner, who landed the role after some campaigning from Brown. "I had the hugest crush on Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and I set the stage for him to be Andre," she reveals. "In season one, I went to [creator] Dan Harmon and [producers Joe and Anthony] Russos, and I was like, 'Guys, listen. If we ever see Andre, it has to be Malcolm-Jamal Warner — if Shirley reconciles with him.' I was like, 'Only if it's going to be a pretty picture. If it's not going to be a pretty picture, pick whoever you want for Andre and make Malcolm her new boyfriend.' But I was planning to have my time with Malcolm-Jamal Warner."

While Brown was angling for Shirley's new old man, Jeong was waiting to see where Chang fit in the study group. Originally serving as their unstable Spanish teacher, Chang was fired at the end of season 1 and returned the next semester as a student who desperately wanted a seat at that famous table. "I think there was a push from the studio or network to make me more part of the study group, and then I think Dan liked me being the outsider," shares Jeong. "There was a back and forth, to be honest. I didn't know about any of these things until years later. And putting my own producer's hat, I understand that. There have been characters on my own shows where I'm trying to decide, 'where is that placement?' And I thought Dan did something very brilliant, and they're like, 'Let's let that play out in real time.'"

Chang's role would continue to shift throughout the series, as he'd go from teacher to student to security guard to evil dictator to the allegedly Changnesia-suffering Kevin. "*Community* really stretched me as an actor," says Jeong. "I got to play — in my head — a different character each season. By the time I had my own project, I went in there with an abundance of confidence, like, 'Oh, I can handle this.' And I felt like *Community* gave me [that] confidence...*Community* is where I really learned how to act. It was on the job training."

For more from these Greendale alums, including the "comedic gold" scene that Brown wishes she was in, watch the latest installment of EW's* BINGE *of *Community*. And check back Sunday for season 3's episode with Alison Brie.

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*Community *season 3 began with a cheeky musical number that promised the show would be normal that year. Of course, that couldn't have been farther from the truth about a season that featured multiple timelines, a Dreamatorium adventure, a musical episode, and a war between a pillow fort and a blanket fort. In fact, that's why star Alison Brie, who played Annie Edison, believes it's one of the NBC sitcom's "weirdest seasons."

"I actually think that's where we pushed the envelope more than ever," says Brie in the latest installment of EW's *BINGE* of* Community*. "Our show has always been made for the fans, and I think that certain shows develop a really close relationship with their fans — this symbiotic relationship — and I think that season 3 is where we really locked into that and, truly going against what we say in that opening number, [owning that] we're making a show for a very specific group of people who we knew got the show and loved the show."

Whenever *Community*'s third season comes up, the conversation almost always begins with the Emmy-nominated "Remedial Chaos Theory." But for Brie, that's the third thing on her mind.

"The very first thing that comes to mind is Ken [Jeong] in a wig as Jeff [Joel McHale], and then a bald cap as the Dean in 'Documentary Film Redux,' she says about the documentary-styled episode that follows the Dean's (Jim Rash) slow descent into auteur madness as he tries to make a new Greendale commercial. "Ken is playing Joel's understudy, and Joel is playing the Dean, and it's in my top two episodes of the season. I love it so much, and Jim Rash is incredible in it. I think of naked Jim smearing ashes all over his body. But just Ken in the wig, in the bald cap, and when he comes out and is like 'Understudy,' that's something I'll never forget."

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After "Documentary Film Redux," Brie's second favorite episode of the season is "Basic Lupine Urology" the show's meticulous ode to *Law & Order*.

"I hadn't really watched a lot of *Law and Order* before we did that episode, and then I did a deep dive, and rewatching ["Basic Lupine Urology"] years later, I was so proud of the episode," she says. "The way they did even just our intro, it really speaks to *Community*'s commitment always to our send-ups, our homages, really, to different types of shows and things like that. We didn't half-ass it, we really did it all way, and Donald [Glover] and Danny [Pudi] are so funny in that episode trying to get the final cop stinger in every scene, and it's just so well done."

And finally, we arrive at the aforementioned "Remedial Chaos Theory." Set entirely in Troy and Abed's apartment, the iconic (and GIF-able) half-hour jumps around multiple timelines created by Jeff after he rolls a dice to decide who will go downstairs to get the pizza. "I even think that the shoot went on longer than the five days, and we had to go back and pick up scenes at different times. It was more like a weird cursed episode when we were shooting it. It felt super bizarre," Brie recalls, explaining that she and the cast never could've have guessed that it would be the episode that received an Emmy nomination.

For more from Brie on season 3, watch the latest installment of EW's* BINGE *of* Community* above. And check back on Monday for season 4's episode with Joel McHale and Jim Rash.

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EW catches up with the former employees of the Sunshine Cab Company.

By Declan Gallagher

on May 5, 2026 3:28 p.m. ET

Judd Hirsch (Alex Reiger)

Judd Hirsch in 'Taxi'; Hirsch at the 'Ella McCay' premiere in 2025

Judd Hirsch in 'Taxi'; Hirsch at the 'Ella McCay' premiere in 2025.

Paramount Television / Courtesy Everett Collection; Jesse Grant/Getty

Judd Hirsch played Alex, the straight man at the chaotic taxi stand. Before taking a gig as a cabbie, he ditched his corporate office job — and his wife left him.

Finding his true breakthrough in his 40s, Hirsch won a pair of Emmys for the performance en route to a decorated career across mediums. In addition to an Oscar nomination for *Ordinary People *(1980), he won a pair of Tonys and went on to lead another sitcom, *Dear John*, that landed him a Golden Globe.

Eight years after starring in Sidney Lumet’s *Running on Empty *(1988), the native New Yorker broke an extended big-screen hiatus with a scene-stealing role as Jeff Goldblum’s neurotic father in *Independence Day* (1996).

More recently, he's had supporting roles in *The Meyerowitz Stories *(2017) and *Uncut Gems* (2019). He even scored another Oscar nomination for Steven Spielberg’s *The Fabelmans *(2022).

Over the years, the veteran character actor has had regular TV gigs on *Numb3rs *and *Superior Donuts*, plus a recurring part on *The Goldbergs. *

Hirsch married his longtime partner Kathryn Danielle in 2020. He has three children from previous marriages.

Danny DeVito (Louie De Palma)

Danny DeVito in 'Taxi'; DeVito at the Go Gala in Beverly Hills in 2025

Danny DeVito in 'Taxi'; DeVito at the Go Gala in Beverly Hills in 2025.

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Danny DeVito plays Louie, the head dispatcher and prime bully at the taxi stand who still lives with his mother.

DeVito told PEOPLE in 1979 that Louie originally wasn’t conceived as a main character. That changed once those in charge saw how magnetic he was.

“Louie wasn’t a big part in the pilot,” he said. “But he has developed into a major character. People see through his hard side and like him.”

DeVito has since enjoyed a fruitful career in film. Villainous roles have been his specialty, from the greedy scoundrels he played in *Romancing the Stone *(1984) and *Ruthless People *(1986) to his grotesque Penguin in *Batman Returns *(1992) and muckraking journalist in *L.A. Confidential *(1997). He also showed a softer side in comedies like *Twins *(1988) and *Junior *(1994).

Modern audiences know him best for his two-decade run as Frank Reynolds on *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia*, though his top-to-bottom resume speaks for itself — including his work behind the camera, directing such films as *Matilda* (1996), *The War of the Roses *(1989), and *Death to Smoochy *(2002).

DeVito has been married to Rhea Perlman since 1982. They have been officially separated for years but remain close friends. The couple share three children.

Danny DeVito recalls partying with Michael Jackson on the set of 'Taxi'

Danny DeVito as Louie De Palma in the TAXI episode, "Bobby's Big Break."; Michael Jackson in 1983

Carol Kane reveals epic prank 'Taxi' costar Andy Kaufman pulled on her

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Marilu Henner (Elaine Nardo)

Marilu Henner in 'Taxi'; Henner at the Summer Soiree in Santa Monica in 2025

Marilu Henner in 'Taxi'; Henner at the Summer Soiree in Santa Monica in 2025.

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Single mom Elaine originally takes the part-time taxi-stand job to supplement her work at an art gallery. Eventually she finds she has plenty in common with her oddball co-workers.

The role earned Marilu Henner five Golden Globe nominations. She’s been a small-screen mainstay ever since. A few years after her star-making turn, she co-headlined the sitcom *Evening Shade* opposite Burt Reynolds.

Most recently, she’s been a regular in the *Aurora Teagarden *TV movie franchise, based on the popular book series. She plays the mother of the title character, played by Candace Cameron Bure.

Henner is also well-remembered for big-screen appearances in *Hammett* (1982), *L.A. Story *(1991), and *Noises Off *(1992).

The Chicago native has been married to Michael Brown since 2006. She has two sons from a previous marriage.

Henner has a rare condition known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM), or hyperthymesia, which allows her to recall incredibly specific, detailed events from throughout her life.

Tony Danza (Tony Banta)

Tony Danza in 'Taxi'; Danza at the Central Park Conservancy Annual Gala in 2025

Tony Danza in 'Taxi'; Danza at the Central Park Conservancy Annual Gala in 2025.

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Tony Banta, the kind-hearted but not particularly sharp part-time boxer, served as Tony Danza’s big break.

Danza developed a signature persona and earned a Golden Globe nomination for the role. It wasn’t long before he had a sitcom of his own, this time the long-running *Who’s the Boss?* (1984–1992). That brought three more Globe nods for the actor.

While being regularly in-demand on television, Danza has made room for his share of movies, including pairing up with *Taxi *costar Christopher Lloyd in *Angels in the Outfield *(1994). His kid costar in that baseball flick, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, eventually cast him in his directorial debut, *Don Jon *(2013).

The Brooklyn native had a run on Paul Haggis’ legal drama *Family Law,* and later booked a small role in the director’s Oscar-winning *Crash *(2004). He currently stars on *Power Book III: Raising Kanan*.

During a 2023 reunion with the *Taxi *cast on *The View*, Danza revealed that Henner was his first “Hollywood girlfriend.” Though their romantic relationship didn’t work out, Henner obviously has good memories of their time together.

Danza quipped, “The problem is you don't want your girlfriend to have a great memory. ‘Don't you remember?’ Of course she does! She remembers everything, and so it’s just not something you want.”

Danza has been married twice and has four children.

Andy Kaufman (Latka Gravas)

Andy Kaufman in Taxi'; Kaufman at a rehearsal for 'Teaneck Tanzi' in 1983

Andy Kaufman in Taxi'; Kaufman at a rehearsal for 'Teaneck Tanzi' in 1983.

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Legendary alternative comedian Andy Kaufman enjoyed the most famous role of his career as sweet immigrant mechanic Latka.

Kaufman often expressed ambivalence about his beloved role, as he wanted to be known for his own comic voice instead of an ensemble player on a sitcom.

“He wasn’t overjoyed doing *Taxi* because it was confinement to him,” said Kaufman’s friend, Cindy Williams, in the documentary* Andy Kaufman Is Me*. “He was restricted by, you know, lines that people had written for him. And Andy, he was his own creator.”

He first found mainstream notoriety on the premiere episode of *Saturday Night Live* in 1975, thanks to his iconic *Mighty Mouse *routine. That surreal sketch epitomized his career as a whole, but he became best known for his “Foreign Man” character and, by extension, Latka.

His absurdist celebrity impressions, talk-show stunts, Tony Clifton alter-ego, and stint on the women’s wrestling circuit made him a perpetual curiosity... and that's before he starred as a robot in the poorly received film *Heartbeeps *(1981).

The comedy legend was diagnosed with large-cell carcinoma of the lungs in early 1984 and died later that year at age 35.

“A lot of what *Taxi* fans might have missed was just how confrontational Andy was in all of his other performances,” *Andy Kaufman Is Me* director Clay Tweel said. “Even his more lighthearted and sweeter moments on stage were engaging the audience in a way that bordered on uncomfortable because you were always wondering what was real and what was just for show.”

From 1982 until his death, the New York native was in a relationship with actress Lynne Margulies. His daughter, Maria Bellu-Colonna, was born in 1969. Conceived with Kaufman’s high-school girlfriend, Maria was put up for adoption and only discovered who her parents were later in life.

Jeff Conaway (Bobby Wheeler)

Jeff Conaway in 'Taxi'; Conaway at the ASCAP Awards afterparty in 2009

Jeff Conaway in 'Taxi'; Conaway at the ASCAP Awards afterparty in 2009.

Paramount Television / Courtesy Everett Collection; Michael Bezjian/WireImage

Jeff Conaway played Bobby, a struggling actor trying to make ends meet with his taxi job while weathering a cavalcade of abuse from Louie.

The same year *Taxi *premiered, Conaway played Danny Zuko’s best pal, Kenickie, in *Grease *(1978). He went on to extended stints on *The Bold and the Beautiful* and *Babylon 5*, reprising the latter role in three TV movies. He also appeared in the films *Jawbreaker* (1999) and *Do You Wanna Know a Secret?* (2001).

The actor was married three times, including to Rona Newton-John, the younger sister of *Grease *star Olivia Newton-John.

Conaway was found unconscious at his Encino, Calif., home in May of 2011. Fifteen days later, his family removed him from life support and he died at the age of 60.

Christopher Lloyd (Reverend Jim Ignatowski)

Christopher Lloyd in 'Taxi; Lloyd at opening night of 'Back to the Future: The Musical' in 2023

Christopher Lloyd in 'Taxi; Lloyd at opening night of 'Back to the Future: The Musical' in 2023.

Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection; Bruce Glikas/WireImage

Christopher Lloyd played Harvard-educated Reverend Jim, whose days as a leading thinker came to an unceremonious end when he inadvertently became a drug addict.

“I just kind of felt like I knew the guy,” Lloyd told *Variety* about Reverend Jim. “I understood what he was about. At that time, there were people like him out on the street. So I just observed them and my feelings about it, and it worked. A lot of that performance came out of the freedom I felt working with that cast and the great writing team. They made it easy.”

With or without *Taxi*, Lloyd’s place in pop culture lore is secure. After making his film debut in *One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest *(1975), appearing alongside DeVito, he helped define a whole generation of moviegoing as Doc Brown in *Back to the Future *(1985).

Not long afterward, he was the incomparable Judge Doom in *Who Framed Roger Rabbit *(1988), and brought Uncle Fester to life in two *Addams Family *features.

He’s been ubiquitous on screens big and small for decades, with over 250 credits and three Emmys — including two for *Taxi* — to his name.

In recent years, Lloyd has popped up in the action flick *Nobody *(2021) and Tim Burton’s revival of the *Addams Family *franchise, *Wednesday*, as a teacher who also happens to be a disembodied head.

The Connecticut native has been married to Lisa Loiacono, his fifth wife, since 2016.

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