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Dan Fogelman explores romance’s range in ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’

A couple years after his Reform bar mitzvah, screenwriter Dan Fogelman devoured Philip Roth’s controversial novel “Portnoy’s Complaint.” The tome was a gift from his cousin, Ken Gordon, now the editor of the Jewish Webzine JBooks.com, “a very literary guy who was my hero growing up,” Fogelman said from New York, where he was doing press for his new comedy, “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”

Contrary to type, Larry David’s not at all neurotic

Three adjectives are often used to describe Larry David, the star and creator of \”Curb Your Enthusiasm,\” which recently premiered its eighth season after two excruciating Curb-less years.

Mourning Amy Winehouse: A biblical vixen goes back to black

Late last year, I spent the better part of a month working on a lengthy profile on Amy Winehouse, the British Jewish retro soul singer who tragically died over the weekend at 27. It was in the doldrums of this process, which included reading a book about Jewish immigrants who perform in blackface in the early 20th century and researching the bizarre music producer Phil Spector, one of her primary musical influences — that I was forced to ask myself: Why do I like Amy Winehouse so much?

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