So John McCain — while claiming that not he\’s not impugning Barack Obama\’s patriotism — impugns Barack Obama\’s patriotism, but we\’re supposed to understand that it doesn\’t really matter, because that\’s just what people do in campaigns.
Alan Arkin is no more a stranger to playing curmudgeons than he is to receiving award nominations.
Actress Jessica Lundy was mostly working TV guest starring roles when she landed the part of Roberta in John Patrick Shanley\’s \”Danny and the Deep Blue Sea\” last month.
Mr. Ex had just sold his condo, and was shopping for a new house. I had just bought a place and considered myself a bit of a pro at the whole house-hunting game, so I offered to help him look for houses — you know, be his \”second eye\” and \”sounding board.\”
Robert Carlyle, of \”The Full Monty\” and \”Angela\’s Ashes\” fame, gives a striking performance in the title role of the CBS miniseries \”Hitler: The Rise of Evil.\”
Playwright Martin Blank confesses he has an affinity for spy stories.
\”He has proved his great potential. He has the attributes of a champion,\” an ecstatic Gebhardt said Sunday of Friedman. \”He has great technique and a strong character, but he needs some moral support to make him even better,\” he said.
Sylvia Rouss, who teaches at Stephen S. Wise Temple, is the author of the popular \”Sammy Spider\” series, which are widely used in Jewish schools around the country.
\nWhen Melanie Mayron read an early script of the iconic yuppie angst-fest \”thirtysomething\” in 1987, she rushed to the telephone. The series\’ creators had portrayed her character, Melissa, as Jewish, fat and troubled. But the famously redheaded actress didn\’t want any of that. She\’d already been a recurring character on another show about a food-obsessed Jewish chick, the 1970s sitcom, \”Rhoda.\” And she was tired of the cliché.
She\’s back, baby — and dare we say it? — she\’s shaggable. In the third go-round of Mike Myers\’ Bond spoof, "Austin Powers in Goldmember,"
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