A.D. Amorosi In the Season Four finale of Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Tony Bennett managed to be arguably the episode’s biggest star without having to show his face or sing a note.The episode — “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?,” written and directed by the streaming comedy’s creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino — took place immediately before and after famously risqué comedian Lenny Bruce (played by Luke Kirby) performed his historic Feb.
2, 1961 gig at Carnegie Hall, with the show’s title character and Bruce having a conversation that wraps around Bennett, portrayed as the epitome of class and the pinnacle of what an artist should be.The star’s son and longtime manager, Danny Bennett, says that no one in the production came to him to ask any permissions, and only used Tony’s likeness on a newspaper ad relating to the gig at the Copa. “That show’s so great, I didn’t care,” the younger Bennett says. “I love the fact that they didn’t use any music — pretty incredible — to evoke Tony.” He adds, “I was a little upset with Legacy (the division of Sony Music that works Tony Bennett’s catalog) for not going after the show, which would’ve been obvious.
But it’s not the first time there were opportunities that weren’t tended to.”Not that the Bennett family has always approved all requests that have come in.
Danny Bennett gives up the fun example of how David Chase, the creator-writer behind “The Sopranos,” desperately wanted his fathers’s music for the crime series. “But Tony, the mob thing, he just didn’t dig it,” says Danny. “It wasn’t his thing.
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