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From the producers of ‘Raymond’: Everybody Loves Sha’are Zedek

Jewish Journal December 7, 2009

Phil Rosenthal and Monica Horan are still trying to please audiences. However, four years since Everybody Loves Raymond ended its wildly successful nine-year run as one of the most beloved sitcoms in the history of television, for Phil – the show\’s creator and producer – and his wife, who played Robert Barone\’s sunny-natured wife Amy on the show, the stage has shifted slightly from the living room to the kitchen.

A Private Eye’s Adventures Are Author’s Dream

Naomi Pfefferman October 28, 2009

Uninhibited author Jonathan Ames — creator of HBO’s quirky detective comedy, “Bored to Death” — once followed a pursuit he describes as “religious cross-dressing”: primping his blond hair and donning blazers to “infiltrate WASP society” in his 20s. While at Princeton University, Ames had become smitten by what he calls “the aesthetics of the WASPy young gentleman” as depicted in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and W. Somerset Maugham. When this charade put him in hearing distance of an anti-Semitic remark, he often said nothing, hoping to “pass” and to be liked.

‘Curb’ — The New Candy Store for Jewish Pride

Jewish Journal September 23, 2009

“You’re not a get together guy. You hate to get together!” Jerry Seinfeld tells former partner Larry David in the third episode of this season’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” “I’m being sold something. I don’t know what yet.”\n

David, ‘Seinfeld’ Cast Reunite, Rant

Naomi Pfefferman September 16, 2009

In its last two seasons, Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” pushed politically correct notions of Jewish identity and race to cringe-worthy and hilarious extremes. David, playing an exaggerated version of his misanthropic self, briefly made nice when he mistakenly believed he had been adopted and was not born Jewish, then he returned to his callous self when his wife — now estranged — took in an African American family that had been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. “So your last name is Black,” he says to the family upon their first meeting, arriving late to pick them up at the airport. “That’d be like if my last name were Jew: Larry Jew.”

LA’s Top Chef Wins First Round of Top Chef Masters [VIDEO]

Orit Arfa June 22, 2009

Suzanne Tracht, executive chef and owner of Los Angeles chophouse, Jar, will feed hungry locals (although not necessarily her creations, to their misfortune) after winning both the Quickfire Challenge and elimination challenge of the second episode of “Top Chef Masters,” a new spin-off of Bravo’s popular cooking competition, “Top Chef.” The new show is designed for chefs who have already achieved their fame the old-fashioned way.

Feuerstein Feels the ‘Royal Pain’in USA’s New Dramedy

Naomi Pfefferman June 3, 2009

On a recent morning on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Mark Feuerstein received an unexpected phone call from the production office of his new USA Network series, “Royal Pains,” in which he plays an emergency room doctor turned private physician to the jet set in the Hamptons.

Talk About ‘Idol’ Worship

Danielle Berrin May 27, 2009

The opening moment of the “American Idol” finale was dripping with irony. Considering that this was the most culturally polarized competition in the show’s history, it was amusing that finalists Adam Lambert and Kris Allen were both dressed regally in white.

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