Nearly 600 guests were onhand as philanthropist Susan Samueli was honored at the John Wayne Cancer Institute (JWCI) Auxiliary\’s annual membership luncheon, held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire on Oct 23 during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
There was a time when the holidays meant choosing between a traditional stamp, like Madonna and child, or a modern stamp, like snowmen. But that all changed in 1996.
On a cool November evening, the Avrech family — Robert, Karen, and Ariel — sit within the cozy confines of their Pico-Robertson home, where an Emmy Award that Robert won for his 1999 Holocaust-themed drama, \”The Devil\’s Arithmetic,\” graces the mantle.
On March 5, 1936, Julius Shulman was awestruck when he saw the Hollywood Hills home designed by legendary California Modernist architect Richard Neutra.
During the Holocaust, Max Webb made two promises: one to his mother and one to God.
When is a city\’s Jewish book festival not actually located in that city? When it\’s based in Los Angeles.
In the 1998 hit comedy \”The Wedding Singer,\” the eponymous character was a nice Jewish boy named Robbie. At the Sept. 2 Century City Park Hyatt reception of 30-something newlyweds Daphna Ghozland and David Hollander, the wedding singer is a nice Jewish boy named Robbie. True, the latter — singer/pianist/bandleader Robbie Helperin — will occasionally perform the odd \’80s pop song with his Simcha Orchestra as Adam Sandler did in the movie, but that\’s where the parallels end, or at least, that\’s where Helperin would like them to end.\n\n\”It was kind of painful to watch,\” Helperin said of the movie that immortalized his profession as a \”Loserville\” populated by \”creepy musicians,\” in his words.
It seems only fitting that comic Sarah Silverman has had guest roles on both the vampy \”V.I.P.\” and the geeky \”Star Trek: Voyager.\” She can trade on her good looks, which she milked in her Hollywood exec role on the Fox sitcom \”Greg the Bunny.\” But left to her own devices, Silverman, tomboyishly comfortable in jeans and sneakers, comes across like your dorky, smart-mouthed sister. Silverman will wield her scalpel-sharp wit in her show, \”Jesus Is Magic,\” Nov. 6-16 at the Canon Theater.\n\n\”It\’s very racial and it\’s sexual,\” Silverman, 31, told The Journal about \”Magic.\” \”I talk a lot about race, about Sept. 11, the Holocaust. I say a lot of stuff I don\’t mean.\”\n\n
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