David Hosley thinks a scene in which a group of devious Jews slash the throat of a young boy in a ritual slaughter to cull his blood for Passover matzah is not the type of thing that should be shown on television. Yitzhak Santis thinks it\’s exactly what we should be seeing.
The segment begins with host Jimmy Smits providing a quick overview of a familiar litany of problems besetting Los Angeles. There are traffic-choked interchanges, vast tracts of unchecked development, a trickle of water to slake a thirsty city and brownish air.
PBS \’Resurgence\’ documentary explores reappearance of anti-Semitism.\n
What\’s funny to Sarah? And does she tell racist jokes? Well, she does use the \’C\’ word![\"ALTTEXT\"](\"{filedir_3}ssnightline.jpg\")
Geller is most famous for bending spoons \”with his mind,\” a feat that commonly figures into legends, jokes and parodies about him, although the contestants perform more sophisticated stunts on the show.
\”If we don\’t have something to yearn for, some dents in our life to fix, some messiness, some crucial quality of our life is missing,\” Kula tells the audience. \”Yearning can be a path to blessing.\”
As Cosmo Kramer in \”Seinfeld,\” Richards played one on TV. But he himself is not Jewish — not that there\’s anything wrong with that.Richards lashed out a heckler at the Laugh Factory last Friday, spitting out the \”N\” word without humor and with abandon. Audience members booed, several walked out, then Richards himself walked off stage.Fellow comedians and fans have been quick to criticize Richards — and misrepresent his religious background.
A new series, \”The Nine,\” created by siblings Hank (\”Without a Trace\”) and K.J. Steinberg (\”Judging Amy\”), tells the story of nine strangers at a L.A. bank and a robbery that will \”only take five minutes\” — until, in TV fashion, something goes horribly wrong. The flashbacks — very small ones that lead every episode — only hint to the whole story of what happened during the 52-hour standoff.
SciFi Channel\’s \”Battlestar Galactica\” is a far cry from its short-lived bubblegum progenitor
The following excerpt is the prologue to \”You\’re Lucky You\’re Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom,\” (Viking, 2006) a memoir by Phil Rosenthal, creator and executive producer of \”Everybody Loves Raymond.\”
