Wide awake @ 4 am, but really it's 3 am. So I make an early morning espresso, read, write, and then reflect on last week: Chaim Topol - Tevye died, SVB collapsed, California floods and it's the three-year anniversary of Covid. What a week. #Tevye #SVB #Californiafloods #covid

#ChaimTopol, the spirited Israeli actor and singer who portrayed #Tevye the milkman in #FiddlerontheRoof on stages all around the world and in an Oscar-nominated turn in Norman Jewison’s 1971 film adaptation, has died. He was 87.

Topol died Thursday in Tel Aviv after a long illness.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/chaim-topol-dead-tevye-milkman-fiddler-on-the-roof-1235346582/

RIP Topol (known by just his last name), 1935–2023

"Chaim Topol, the Israeli actor and singer best known for his performance as Tevye the Milkman in Fiddler on the Roof, has died at the age of 87." [Guardian]

He appeared on stage and screen in lots of things (including a 'Bond' film). Here's one reason he's known around the world as Tevye:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2TDLPN4T_yU
#Topol #RIP #Tevye #Fiddler #music

Dr. Hans Zarkov, formerly of NASA...has passed away. 😢

#Topol #Tevye #FiddlerOnTheRoof

The film version of #FiddlerOnTheRoof was the first #musical I liked, partly because of it being grounded in gritty reality, but mostly because of #ChaimTopol's singing and humanistic portrayal of #Tevye, the kind of character I'd usually not like at all.

Like many other classics of the new #Hollywood of my childhood, Fiddler is foundational to my love of #cinema, and Chaim foundational to my appreciation of this film.

#AlavHaShalom ✡️

It’s sad to hear #ChaimTopol’s died, it really is.

SF fans of a certain Age will remember him in #FlashGordon … but his signature role was as #Tevye in #FiddlerOnTheRoof

#DoYouLoveMe has to be THE song from the piece …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_y9F5St4j0