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Films: Garlin hopes audience will be pleased with ‘Cheese’
Jeff Garlin loves being Jewish. He\’s a borscht-eating, challah-noshing, temple-going, \”big bowl of Jewish,\” as he so proudly describes himself. A proud Jew at home, Garlin also plays one on television.
Q&A with writer-director Judd Apatow
The Journal recently caught up with Judd Apatow to talk about filmmaking, the plethora of Jewish characters in his films and working with his family in \”Knocked Up.\”
VIDEO: Paula Abdul talks about being Jewish
Everyone\’s favorite Laker girl, American Idol\’s Paul Abdul, talks about being Jewish
Screenwriter Alex Kurtzman ‘Transforms’ filmdom’s giant robot genre
\”I go to my inner kid,\” said Kurtzman, who grew up culturally Jewish. \”Where do we find our inspiration? It\’s the movies that inspired us as kids, and a lot of that was sci-fi, but a lot of that sci-fi was fun.\”
Bimboim’s trip to the Western Wall (kotel)
Bimbo — Betty Boop\’s canine companion in all those old Max Fleischer cartoons — liberates his inner Jew to fly to the Wailing Wall (kotel) in Jerusalem in this new homage to animator Fleischer.
Don’t ‘knock’ Seth Rogen, the new overweight Canadian Jewish boy leading man
Seth Rogen feigned surprise when a CBS host joked that he did not see the actor in a Hollywood manual about leading men. \”You didn\’t see \’overweight Canadian Jewish boy\’ in there?\” the actor replied.\n
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