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‘O.C.’: How a Young Creator Spells Success

Keren Engelberg October 2, 2003

Josh Schwartz doesn\’t sleep much on Tuesday nights anymore.

That\’s the night his new show, \”The O.C.,\” airs on FOX, and the weekly insomnia awaiting the public\’s response has become an occupational hazard ever since.

Over coffee early one morning, Schwartz, the 27-year-old who\’s being touted as the youngest person ever to create his own television network drama, discussed his recent starburst since the show debuted in August. \”We\’re starting to settle now,\” he said, looking disheveled by design in vintage green T-shirt, powder blue cords and sneakers.

Q & A With Darren Star

Andrea King September 18, 2003

Darren Star, the creator and executive producer of three of the last decade\’s most popular television phenomena — \”Beverly Hills, 90210,\” \”Melrose Place\” and the three time Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning HBO comedy series \”Sex and the City\” — is being honored Monday night with the Tisch Industry Leadership Award at the National Foundation for Jewish Culture\’s third annual Jewish Image Awards.

Sept. 11 From the D.C. Perspective

Ivor Davis September 4, 2003

\”I tried to persuade others in Hollywood to support his campaign because there was a lot of hostility there toward his candidacy,\” Lionel Chetwynd said. \”There was nothing dark to be read into it, although there was a preexisting relationship. They knew I\’d always been enthusiastic about Bush\’s presidential ambitions since the days he was governor of Texas.\”

Secrets of the Cryptic Scripture

Gaby Wenig August 28, 2003

Matthew Asner and Danny Gold, the two Reform Jews who wrote, directed and produced the documentary, say that while they don\’t necessarily believe in the codes, they find them interesting.

Carlyle Discusses Dangers of ‘Hitler’

Tom Tugend May 15, 2003

Robert Carlyle, of \”The Full Monty\” and \”Angela\’s Ashes\” fame, gives a striking performance in the title role of the CBS miniseries \”Hitler: The Rise of Evil.\”

Rabbis, Scholars OK CBS ‘Hitler’ Pic

Tom Tugend May 8, 2003

CBS feared that the early Hitler would be \”humanized\” into a sympathetic figure as an abused child and misunderstood artist or as a German Rocky who overcame tremendous odds, and even that the film might trigger pogrom-like outbursts.

Nice, Jewish Maidel

Naomi Pfefferman March 27, 2003

Four \”Roseanne\” seasons and several failed sitcom pilots later, a WB executive urged Amy Sherman-Palladino to pitch an hour-long show to the network. Her response was \”Gilmore Girls,\” whose pilot featured dialogue she had scribbled during that fateful trip to Washington Depot.

A Graceless Will?

Keren Engelberg December 19, 2002

Is Jewish the new gay? That\’s how it\’s looking this season on NBC\’s \”Will and Grace.\”

The Joys of Rena

Keren Engelberg November 14, 2002

Rena Sofer always seems to land ethnic roles. As the newest regular on NBC\’s \”Just Shoot Me,\” Sofer plays Vicki Costa, a hairdresser from Brooklyn, whose name is Greek, but whose ethnicity is undefined. It\’s reminiscent of her Emmy-award winning role of Lois Cerullo Ashton, the brassy Italian Brooklynite she played for five years on the soap opera \”General Hospital.\”

She\’s also known for playing journalist Rachel Rose, the stereotypically ideal Jewish woman who goes out with a Reform rabbi (Ben Stiller), in the 2000 film \”Keeping the Faith.\”

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