For Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie’s ping-pong movie starring Timothée Chalamet, a number of unusual casting choices were made, including several blink-and-you’ll-miss-them cameos.
Gwyneth Paltrow, whose character, actress Kay Stone, has an affair with Chalamet’s rambunctious Marty Mauser, makes her first appearance in a film in 10 years. Tyler, the Creator (née Tyler Okonma) plays Marty’s best bud, Wally. Fran Drescher is his mother, Rebecca, and Odessa A’zion plays his pregnant girlfriend, Rachel. Basketball Hall of Famer George Gervin, Sandra Bernhard and Penn Jillette also appear.
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Then there’s Larry “Ratso” Sloman, who plays Marty’s Uncle Murray, the owner of a busy shoe store where Marty and Rachel both work.
Sloman’s appearance is also a small moment of High Times history on screen. He served as editor in chief of High Times from 1983 to 1984, after joining the magazine in 1977. In the years following founder Tom Forçade’s death in 1978, Forçade’s wife, Gabrielle Schang, took over as editor in chief in 1979 for one year. She was followed by publisher Andy Kowl, then Sloman, who had served as executive editor under both Schang and Kowl before stepping into the top editorial role.
These were lean years for High Times, shaped by the early drug war and the rise of Ronald Reagan’s “Just Say No” movement. Among Sloman’s better-known contributors during that era were William S. Burroughs and Charles Bukowski.
“He valiantly saved the magazine’s editorial standards after Tom died,” says former associate publisher Rick Cusick, who is currently working on a history of High Times. “They were lucky to have Ratso to take over the editorial reins. It was miraculous.”
In Marty Supreme, Sloman’s first scene …
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Author: Steve Bloom / High Times
