Like many a success story, it all started as a joke.\nDave Golding, a major Hollywood publicist, asked neophyte photographer Phil Stern to document the filming of \”Guys and Dolls.\” As a favor to his father, who worked on The Forward, Golding asked Stern to photograph Marlon Brando reading a copy of the Yiddish-language paper.
Peter Mehlman, the former writer and co-executive producer of \”Seinfeld,\” is sitting at a corner table at Shutters on the Beach, wearing mismatched sweats and a day\’s worth of stubble.
On Fox\’s breakout comedy, \”That \’70s Show,\” Mila Kunis plays spoiled and sassy Jackie Burkhardt. But, in real life, she\’s very much a child of the \’90s, down to her fascination with the Internet.
Between 1939 and 1944, when the Lodz ghetto was the largest and most notorious Nazi slave labor camp, a bourgeois Austrian named Walter Genewein, the ghetto\’s chief accountant, procured a Movex 12 camera that was confiscated from a Jewish prisoner.
Once again, the anniversary of the Holocaust is upon us (April 13), and, once again, the commemoration taunts me. \”Go preach the goodness of God.\” \”Go praise the crown of God\’s creation made but little lower than the angels.\” \”Speak to the world of faith and hope in the wake of the terrifying knowledge: 1.5 million children murdered because of their Jewishness, nine out of every 10 European rabbis slaughtered, one third of a people decimated.\”
For Italian expatriates Lotte Katz Singer of Beverly Hills and Ann Signett of the San Fernando Valley, life is surprising as well as beautiful.
The community colleges, like the rest of the state\’s once-stellar educational complex, have been ignored for some 20 years, which is why Tuesday\’s Los Angeles election deserves our attention.
For many Jews watching the 71st Academy Awards last week, the telecast surely scaled new heights of Hollywood surrealism, as the ceremony seemed to honor an unusually disproportionate preponderance of films with Jewish content and their non-Jewish creators.
In these scandalous times, is there anything left to say about sex?
Sandra Bullock, get out of my head. Look, it\’s nothing personal. I\’m sure you\’re a really nice person, and it\’s not like you\’re untalented. And despite the fact that I\’m not particularly a fan of yours, I seem to know everything about you.
