Academy on Joan Rivers: Memorial couldn’t fit all
Jewish Journal
February 22, 2015
The late Joan Rivers didn\’t have to be at Sunday\’s Oscars ceremony to make her presence felt.
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Hollywood
Oscar nominee ‘Ida’ traces void left by Poland’s murdered Jews
Jewish Journal
February 18, 2015
For the past few decades, Holocaust films have been common — and often victorious — fare at the Academy Awards.
P.T. Anderson’s Inherent Vice
Jewish Journal
February 17, 2015
Has Hollywood’s foremost interpreter of California lost his touch?
Lesley Gore, singer of ‘It’s My Party’ fame, dies
Jewish Journal
February 17, 2015
Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, whose hit “It’s My Party” topped the charts in 1963 when she was 17, has died.
For ‘Aya,’ a long journey from Israel to the Oscars
Jewish Journal
February 17, 2015
The idea for “Aya” began with a daydream: What if you were waiting for someone at the airport and instead you picked up a total stranger? What then?
What Ida gets right, and wrong
Jewish Journal
February 12, 2015
A Polish farmer standing shoulders-deep in a hole he has dug in wet, black dirt, searching for Jewish skeletons. As Poles uncover and handle Jewish bones, past sins, dirty conscience, betrayal, and buried grief return and have to be faced.
Lindsay Sloane got a personal bid for role in new CBS comedy
Jewish Journal
February 12, 2015
Lindsay Sloane made her acting debut in a TV commercial when she was 8.
‘Wild Tales’: Six crazy nights make it a foreign-language contender
Tom Tugend
February 12, 2015
Members of the tribe looking for an Oscar finalist full of Jewish characters will find it in an unlikely place — Argentina’s “Wild Tales.”
The best of Jon Stewart’s Jewish jokes
Jewish Journal
February 11, 2015
With the announcement that Jon Stewart is leaving \’The Daily Show\’, we take a moment to pause and recall his finest moments as the de facto CEO of Jewish humor in America.
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