Lisa Pera's Overwhelment
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- Опубликовано: 16 янв 2023
- The realities of hoarding - a compassionate portrait of a retired and overwhelmed Hollywood actress as her son begins coping with the enormous task ahead.
In 2008, Radames Pera, best know for his portrayal of the iconic "Grasshopper" in the original hit TV series KUNG FU (where the meme "patience Grasshopper" originated) visits his mom, Lisa at his childhood home to assess the extent of her "collecting habit" (a good portion of which was funded by his younger career).
Forty years of not letting anything go has made the place uninhabitable, and by this filming Lisa was too embarrassed to admit that she was already staying miles away at a Studio City motel.
It would take Radames another 18 months to begin executing a plan to properly empty, sort, and liquidate the salvageable assets, spruce up the place up and put it on the market. This unearthed amazing objects d'art and lots of memorabilia from his and his mom's respective careers (but that's a whole other doc-in-progress).
This one shows the humanity of the situation and what's needed do right by someone who suffers addiction in this form. 
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Keep it up, guys!!! There are people who only do this type of work. Lisa is beautiful and she deserves a beautiful house to live. Much love. And congrats to the son who cares for his mom!!!!
RIP Lisa Pera .. She was a beauty and a special person indeed 🥰
A labor of love and beautiful tribute to your mother. I have 4 young adult children who are now recently gone on in their life pursuits and I am left with a house full of the multiple remnants of a rushed busy life that went by too quickly. They are gone and I am left with the souvenirs of their childhoods. I can relate and appreciate you sharing your and your wonderful loving mother’s story.
If you knew Lisa you loved her and her huge beautiful heart. I was blessed to have met her and her outstanding and oh so fun friends. We used to go to the rose bowl with her treasures for the swap meet to sell. What a great time and when we packed up the night before and left at 3am for a long day she was always a bright light to us all Then we would all meet at the entrance gate and watch her wheel and deal all day long. One of the most Awsome times of my life and as I’m older I look back and see how lucky I was to have had her in my life. I will never forget those crazy incredible times and how she always found beauty in everything. Thank you Lisa and friends for making such great memories. You will always be cherished
Denny, I am very grateful you made the effort to contribute this here. It gives me another positive perspective with which to appreciate my mom. As is classically known, the relationship between a mother and her son is often a complicated one, particularly when one is a single parent and when one is an only child...Yet, we all have different facets we share with different relations during the course of our lives, and yours is the eloquent voice of someone who experienced the best of this remarkable person. She survived the Holocaust, reinvented herself after coming to America at age 8, went to the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan and then to Hollywood at 23 with me under her arm to seek fame and fortune. She found some of both, in both her first act as Lisa Pera, and her second as Leeza Vinnichenko... enough so that she felt fulfilled at the end of her too short a life.
A remarkable achievement by any measure. Thank you again by honoring her in this way.
30:44 I had to look up the plural for “abacus,” and you both were right! It can either be “abacuses” or “abaci.” Learn something new everyday. 😊
I really enjoyed your mother sharing some of her art collection even though much of this film is about the difficulties of living with a great deal of clutter. My father’s aunt and uncle were antique collectors with an actual business, but their home slowly became overrun with too much. It is easy for me to understand how it slowly piles up and becomes overwhelming. I did not expect that ending, and I am glad she was able to live in places with less clutter (that hopefully stayed that way). When you say “…But that’s a whole other film,” did you take footage of it that you may post one day? I really liked seeing you two together here. My deepest condolences on her passing. I was very sad to learn she passed when I read the news years ago. Both of you were terrific actors, and I love how the internet has allowed for people to share parts of their life with content they filmed themselves. Lovely relationship. Thank you for uploading.
Appreciation for your kind and thoughtful words.
I was brought here by an episode of "Combat!" that I just watched - your Mom plays a young French mother desperately searching for her baby amidst the bombed out rubble of her village and the American and German soldiers declare a truce so they can team up and search for her baby. But in the end it turns out there is no baby after all, she did have a baby but the baby was killed in a bombing two years earlier and she has been delusional ever since, thinking her baby is still alive. Your Mother's performance was very moving and emotional and heart felt....I was wondering, did she ever talk about that episode? I know it's just one of probably thousands of things she did and probably would not remember it. I wonder if she kept anything from that episode in her house...she seemed like a wonderful lady and I'm sorry for your loss...
Thank you for the comforting words. That performance in "Combat!" was definitely one of her most proud achievements in Hollywood. Not only was it her first TV guest-starring role shortly after moving to L.A. with me from New York, her "big break" we might call it, but it also happened to be the Directorial debut of Vic Morrow's (you'll notice that he's not in this episode, but he was behind the camera in every scene). This episode was nominated for an Emmy which helped his career as well as my mom's. It stands alone as a great 2-act play, and would be a great thing to mount on a stage sometime. Some of the best TV drama ever made.
Thank you for the background on the episode. A stage play would be a great adaptation!
@radamespara I agree this is a compassionate way to help. Your Mom was a natural born director.
This poor woman needed help. She was a beautiful actress.
I recently saw her in an episode of Combat made in 1965, she was a very good actress. ruclips.net/video/L12VMhSQrxQ/видео.html
Countess Zorana needed her stuff.
Poor women was beatiful. !! She need love of her son!great actreess!!