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Hollywood-Israel link flourishing

A group of hotshot Hollywood television executives sit around a table sipping Evian water, working their cellphones and bemoaning the lack of fresh ideas for a series to pull their network out of the cellar.

Israel to rock the Kodak but hoping for more glam

Rami Kleinstein music video \’Winds of War\’ ( Hebrew)

In planning the May 10 celebratory \”Israel at 60\” megaconcert for Hollywood\’s Kodak Theatre, the producers went down the A-list of Jewish celebrities, requesting their presence at what is hoped to be the grandest celebration in Los Angeles of Israel\’s 60th year of independence.

Debra Winger explores Jewish/Arab day schools

Students at the Hand in Hand Max Rayne Bilingual School in Jerusalem didn\’t know they were meeting a celebrity. They weren\’t born when the films \”Officer and a Gentleman\” and \”Terms of Endearment\” garnered Debra Winger her Oscar nominations.

Teen angst bring laughs film director won’t ‘Forget’

Nicholas Stoller remembers the day he joined the \”Jew-Tang Clan,\” the creative posse led by comedy wunderkind Judd Apatow (\”The 40-year-old Virgin,\” \”Knocked Up\”).\n\nApatow was interviewing the then-24-year-old writer for a job on his 2000 college sitcom, \”Undeclared.\”

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