Secrets of their success
New book looks at what makes people successful
A nice Jewish doctor decides his family must live on in a camper and surf . . . all the time; and here\’s the documentary to prove it
Evan Handler\’s offscreen life is as wild as his video adventures,
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.
So what can you say about a 44-year-old comedian who died? That she leaves a certain legacy of laughter, through the efforts of her brother, to those who never heard of her.
In 2002, Leonard Nimoy, now 76, said he was retiring from acting to focus on photography. But in May 2009, he\’ll return to the silver screen as the pointy-eared pop culture icon who has been his alter ego since \”Star Trek\” debuted on television in 1966.
Gary David Goldberg did not set out to be a screenwriter. He was already 30 when a teacher at San Diego State University guided him toward the profession. That fateful nudge set Goldberg on his path to becoming a successful writer/producer and director of a string of films and television shows that include \”Spin City,\” \”Brooklyn Bridge\” and the phenomenally popular sitcom, \”Family Ties.\”
When the Writers went on strike, even comedy paid a price.
Jamie Sigler, who played the daughter of Mafia kingpin Tony Soprano on the acclaimed HBO show \”The Sopranos,\” grew up in a Jewish home in Jericho, N.Y., going to Hebrew school and having a bat mitzvah. But it was only during her recent visit to Israel that she said she felt a true spiritual and emotional connection to her roots.




