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Not Just a Gigolo

Naomi Pfefferman June 2, 2010

It’s hard to avoid bad puns when discussing HBO’s critically acclaimed series “Hung.” The half-hour comedy-drama revolves around Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane), a broke Detroit high school basketball coach who decides to become a gigolo when he realizes his “winning tool” — as his self-help guru puts it — is his supersized Johnson. There is also Ray’s idealistic poet-pimp, Tanya, who envisions him as a “happiness consultant”; Ray’s high-strung ex-wife (Anne Heche); their two sullen teenagers; and Tanya’s predatory competitor, Lenore (Rebecca Creskoff).\n

Steven Levitan’s Home Life Is Fodder for ‘Modern Family’

Naomi Pfefferman April 14, 2010

“All of our stories come from real life,” Steven Levitan, co-creator and executive producer of ABC’s “Modern Family,” told 1,200 fans at a recent Paley Center for Media event in Beverly Hills. Asking his wife, Krista, to stand, he told the PaleyFest group that she really did smash his expensive television remote control into a thousand pieces and left it by their front door for him to find. He then introduced their son, Griffin, whom he was obliged to shoot with a BB gun after Griffin shot his cousin; and daughter, Hannah, whose video chat with her friends caught him wearing nothing but his underwear.

‘Holy Land Hardball’ returns to MLB Network starting April 11.

Jewish Journal April 9, 2010

The scariest part of making dreams a reality is how quickly they can disappear. When Boston bagel baron Larry Baras finally succeeded in bringing professional baseball to the Jewish state in 2007 with the Israel Baseball League (IBL), it was hard for him to see that dream vanish after a single season.

Shoah week on PBS

Jewish Journal April 2, 2010

The Public Broadcasting Service will offer U.S. television viewers a concentrated history lesson during Holocaust Remembrance Week, with seven films and documentaries on Jewish death and defiance in the past and on the genocides of the present.\n\nFour main films will be aired in prime time by 365 member stations, starting April 11 with a British version of \”The Diary of Anne Frank\” at 9 p.m. (check local listings to confirm date and time).\n

His Hustling Pays Off in Fashionista Role

Naomi Pfefferman March 24, 2010

When Bryan Greenberg was a struggling actor a decade ago, he was caught up in the kind of New York hustle familiar to the aspiring fashionista he plays on HBO’s “How to Make It in America,” a gritty series about the American dream amid Wall Street disaster.

A first look at the Simpsons’ upcoming visit to Israel

Jewish Journal March 19, 2010

The first images from the upcoming episode of The Simpsons, in which the animated family visits Israel, were released this week after six months of\nbuzz over the special show to be aired in the United States on March 28.\n\nThe episode, titled \”The Greatest Story Ever D\’ohed,\” includes scenes of Homer and Bart at the Western Wall with their Israeli tour guide, who will be voiced by British comedian Sascha Baron Cohen, of Borat and Bruno fame.

Actor Corey Haim laid to rest

Jewish Journal March 17, 2010

Actor Corey Haim was buried in a private Jewish ceremony in Toronto attended by about 200 relatives and close friends.\n\nThe former teen heartthrob, who shot to fame in the 1980s with films such as \”The Lost Boys,\” \”License to Drive\” and \”Lucas,\” died March 10 at the suburban Los Angeles home he shared with his Israeli-born mother, Judy. He was buried Tuesday in his native Toronto.\n

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