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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.

Judy Toll is one funny valentine

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.

Final Frontier calls to Nimoy

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.

TV: From Bensonhurst to Vermont, via Hollywood

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.\”

‘Meadow Soprano’ explores her Jewish spirit in Israel

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.

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