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Michael Aushenker

Time’s on his Side

January 24, 2002

There\’s no denying that Fox\’s critically acclaimed \”24\” is a fast-moving show that, unlike other dramas, operates in \”real time\” — each 60-minute episode\’s action literally unfolds over an hour\’s time. \nBut what series co-creator Joel Surnow never anticipated was that his rookie show would move as fast in the real world: Not even halfway through its first season,\”24\” was nominated for Best TV Drama and Best Actor (Kiefer Sutherland)Golden Globes.Dark horse Sutherland won over perennial award show favorites Martin Sheen and James Gandolfini.\n\n

Still Got ‘Game’

January 24, 2002

Like Budd Schulberg\’s \”What Makes Sammy Run?\” Phillip Roth\’s \”Portnoy\’s Complaint\” and other milestones of Jewish American literature, Will Eisner\’s \”Name of the Game\” explores the depths of Jewish self-loathing and assimilation. But what separates \”Name\” — a tale chronicling two immigrant families that merge through marriage for social advancement and then suffer destructive consequences — from the others, is that Eisner\’s work is a comic book.\n\n

Coming Out on Top

January 24, 2002

Despite a downturn in the economy, 2001\’s United Jewish Fund (UJF) general campaign closed at $45 million, ahead of the previous year.

Blackwell Knows Best

January 24, 2002

Do not envy Anne Robinson. When Richard Blackwell (ne Richard Selzer), the fashion critic of the rich and famous, released his 42nd annual lists of apparel achievers and fashion faux pas on Jan. 8, the pretentiously garbed British game show host topped his Worst Dressed Woman of 2001 list.

Ponderosa Past

January 17, 2002

In the 1940s, when Burt Lancaster and Harold Hecht formed their production company, Hecht-Lancaster, they optioned debut novels by two young Jewish writers: \”The Naked and the Dead,\” by Norman Mailer and \”Burial of the Fruit,\” by David Dortort. Dortort and Mailer were hired to adapt their books into screenplays.\n\n\”The fallacy in Hecht-Lancaster\’s logic was that neither Norman nor I knew anything about writing a screenplay,\” Dortort said. \”The verdict came in: these were two of the worst screenplays ever written,\” he added, laughing in the comfort of his spacious Bel Air den. Dortort\’s screenplay mastery came later when the writer parlayed his love for American history into the phenomenon of a show he created in 1959 called \”Bonanza.\”\n\n\n\n

Ray of Hope

January 17, 2002

What will become of five Jccs? The question has still not been answered, but by next week, a resolution will be definitively closer.\n\n

In the ‘Company’ of Kline

January 17, 2002

\”Come and knock on my door,\”began the jingle on the popular \’70s ABC sitcom \”Three\’s Company.\” These days, opportunity knocks on the door of actor Richard Kline. \nKline, who played smarmy bachelor Larry Dallas on the quintessential sitcom, returns this week as director of KNBC weatherman Fritz Coleman\’s new one-man show, \”The Reception.\” Coleman\’s humorous meditation on marriage follows his and Kline\’s collaboration on Coleman\’s first production, the autobiographical \”It\’s Me! Dad!\”\n\n

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