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Politics Elbows Its Way Into Film’s Oscar Party

At the official Oscar party March 7 for the Israeli foreign film nominee “Ajami,” the tension between art and politics threatened to overwhelm the night. And rather than celebrate a win for the third consecutive Israeli film to be nominated for an Oscar, private sighs of relief followed the film’s loss to Argentina.

Actor Andrew Koenig’s Body Believed to Have Been Found

The body of missing actor Andrew Koenig is believed to have been found. Koenig is known for his performance as Richard Boner, on ABC\’s \”Growing Pains.\” Koenig is the son of Jewish actor Walter Koenig (\”Star Trek\”) whose parents were Russian immigrants.

Gibson, Jewish reporter spar

Mel Gibson and a Jewish broadcaster sparred over the actor\’s anti-Semitic rant in 2006.

Reubens Ready for Pee-wee’s Big Comeback

“My father was a hero of the early Israeli air force — isn’t that an amazing story?” Paul Reubens said recently between rehearsals of “The Pee-wee Herman Show” at Club Nokia.

Q & A With Jackie Mason

Jackie Mason is a tough customer. The rabbi-turned Borsht Belt comic jokingly gave Ed Sullivan the finger on live TV in 1964, which gained him pariah status in Hollywood for years. Since then the irascible Mason has become as famous for his uber-right-wing politics as he has for his Jewish schtick, irking Democrats, for example, by quipping that President Barack Obama is an “arbiter of change — he changes his story every five minutes.” He feels entitled to use the word schvartze because, as he’s said, “I’m an old Jew. I was raised in a Jewish family where \’schvartze\’ was used. It\’s not a demeaning word and I\’m not going to defend myself.” And he staunchly refuses to turn down his bile — where all things liberal are concerned — either in his video blog, “The Ultimate Jew,” or on stage. On Jan. 20-24, he’ll bring his tenth one-man show, “Jackie Mason: No Holds Barred,” to the Wadsworth Theatre. In advance, the 73-year-old comedian refused a telephone interview with The Journal, but agreed to answer e-mailed questions so that he could ensure his answers would run verbatim.

A Jewish gag’s journey to the ‘Tonight Show’

Late-night television audiences have come to expect zany song-and-dance numbers from Conan O’Brien’s “The Tonight Show,” but the show’s recent Mormon Christmas send-up actually had its roots in an unusual place: an offline brainstorming session among progressive Jewish bloggers.

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