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Journey to Judaism
"I want to be the first Jewish country singer," Mare Winningham says. "Actually, Kinky Friedman was the first. But I want to be the next."
Lewis Black Hits It Big by Seeing Red
Lewis Black is pissed off.
In his HBO special, \”Black on Broadway,\” the black-clad Jewish comic from New York with the tobacco-tinged rasp unleashes a torrent of four-letter words and razor-edged observations about the world around him — a world that could be so much better, so much kinder, so much gentler. But isn\’t.
Giants of the Small Screen
Andy and Opie. Archie and Meathead. The Professor and Mary Ann. Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia. We can all thank Sheldon Leonard, Norman Lear, Sherwood Schwartz and Susan Harris, respectively, for bringing these people into our living rooms and the pop culture landscape.
To some, they were the menches next door, but to the TV Land cable network they are \”Moguls,\” the ones with the \”golden touch,\” says Merv Griffin, host of the six-part series, which debuts Wednesday, April 21.
Jews Flop in Big Oscar Award Wins
The 76th Academy Awards brought much cheer to New Zealand, home of the 11 Oscar-winning \”The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,\” but little to ethnocentric Jews.\n\nThere was a dollop of consolation in the best actor win for Sean Penn, son of the late Jewish television director Leo Penn. The elder Penn was the grandson and great-grandson of rabbis and the son of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants, whose surname, Piñon, was anglicized at Ellis Island.
A Gift From Santa’s Jewish Helpers
In the sleeper hit \”Elf,\” Buddy (Will Ferrell) is a lovable\nchildlike oaf, raised by elves, who returns to New York to find his real father\nand spread Christmas cheer. It\’s a hip, witty, charming fairy tale that, like\nmuch of Christmas cinema, was created by Jews.
Hollywood, History and the Holocaust
The process of changing Nazi history in films and television actually began some time ago in films and television. From Chaplin\’s \”The Great Dictator\” to \”Hogan\’s Heroes,\” from Ernst Lubitsch\’s \”To Be or Not to Be\” to \”The Grey Zone,\” World War II and the Holocaust have been told almost solely from the point of view of the victors and the victims.
Tinseltown Exposed
When Bernard Rose first met superagent Jay Moloney, the inspiration for his controversial new film, \”ivansxtc,\” he was a hot young director courted by every agent in town. \”I was staying at the Mondrian, and gifts would suddenly appear in my room,\” says the 41-year-old Jewish Brit, who had just made an acclaimed 1988 drama, \”Paperhouse.\”
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