Posted by Don Huff
Boston (AP)  — One-half of the well-known furniture

selling team of Barry and Eliot is leaving the business for Hollywood.

Barry and Eliot Tatelman have been fixtures on radio and television, starring in quirky ads for their Jordan’s Furniture chain that often mimicked popular national ad campaigns.

Barry Tatelman is leaving the company to pursue show business interests and will help produce a Broadway show and a T-V series.  His brother Eliot says the departure won’t affect the business that began with one store owned by their grandfather in Waltham and grew to a New England-wide chain.

Tatelman says Jordan’s is in “fine shape” and continues to grow.  He says his brother Barry has always been a “frustrated actor.”

The brothers sold the company to investor Warren Buffett in 1999, but have continued to run the stores and star in commercials.