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Holocaust Wins at the Emmys

Tom Tugend November 8, 2001

Three television dramas with Holocaust themes won top honors in their categories at Sunday night\’s 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Award ceremony, proving once again the lasting impact of the Nazi horror in our popular culture.\n\n\”Anne Frank\” on ABC was named best miniseries for its powerful, four-hour long exploration of Anne\’s life, from her happy school days, through her two years in hiding during which she wrote her famous diary, and her final days at Bergen-Belsen.\n\n\”Conspiracy,\” a dramatic reenactment of the 1942 Wansee Conference, which drew up the blueprint for the Nazi extermination of European Jewry, won two awards for HBO: one for actor Kenneth Branagh, who portrayed SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, and the other for Loring Mandel, who wrote the script.\n\nBrian Cox, in the role of Field Marshall Hermann Goering, won supporting actor honors for the TNT miniseries \”Nuremberg,\” a dramatization of the 1945-46 trial of top Nazi war criminals.\n\n

Water Years

Michael Aushenker October 18, 2001

Remember Hanna-Barbara\’s \”Squiddly Diddly?\” Well, a new cartoon cephalopod has come to town, and his name is Oswald the octopus. Voicing the title character on \”Oswald,\” Nickelodeon\’s new addition to its children\’s line-up, is a Valley boy who has been a popular actor since childhood, Fred Savage.\n\n

Jewish and Normal? Oy!

Naomi Pfefferman September 6, 2001

NBC\’s hit \”Will & Grace,\” which is up for 12 Emmys this month, is one of the first network shows to feature an appealing homosexual main character. But the sitcom — which revolves around gay attorney Will and his best gal pal Grace — is a first for another reason: its novel depiction of a young Jewish woman.\n\nGrace Adler, played by Jewish actress Debra Messing, is a gorgeous, kooky interior designer who is neither pushy nor a shopaholic. Forget pathetic Melissa from \”thirtysomething\” or obnoxious Vicki from \”Suddenly Susan.\”

Inside Dating

Naomi Pfefferman September 6, 2001

When \”Inside Schwartz\” creator Stephen Engel was in college, dating was relatively easy. He\’d meet a girl in class, hang out — and presto! — he had a girlfriend.\n\nBut when Engel\’s college flame dumped him when he was 25, the Jewish writer entered alien territory: the singles scene. \”I didn\’t have a lot of experience formally calling women and asking them out,\” he says. \”I\’d never been \’fixed up.\’ I\’d never been on a blind date. I had some horrific experiences.\”

Television Jews: How Jewish Is Too Jewish?

Sally Ogle Davis September 6, 2001

The new television season is upon us. African American and Latino groups are making the expected protests about the lack of people who look like them before and aft of the camera, and the Jews are — as usual — adding up their TV IQ on the fingers of one hand.

If there aren\’t many \”brothers\” out there, there are even fewer \”Members of the Tribe,\” and those that are there are not particularly Jewish Jews, if you know what I mean.

A Boy and His Golem

Tom Tugend August 9, 2001

\”Snow in August\” is an offbeat TV movie, part gritty reality and part fantasy, at the center of which is the curious friendship between an Irish Catholic altar boy and a refugee rabbi in post-World War II Brooklyn.

Redefining Beauty

Naomi Pfefferman June 21, 2001

\”Why don\’t we f— this audition and I\’ll play you right now for the part?\” she said. \”If I lose, you\’ll never see me again. But if I win, I walk out of here with the script.\”

Benefiting Women’s Theater

Ellen Jaffe-Gill April 19, 2001

Doris Roberts, who plays Marie Barone on the popular sitcom \”Everybody Loves Raymond,\” will read the Grace Paley story \”Goodbye and Good Luck\” at a fundraiser for the Jewish Women\’s Theatre Project (JWTP) on April 23.

Loving “Life” ‘s Lessons

Michael Aushenker December 14, 2000

Heather Paige Kent, an attractive Bronx-born brunette loaded with charm and New York wit, discussed with Up Front the complexities of transcending stereotypes on her ethnic-flavored, freshman-year program from the patio of her Newport Beach residence.

Rampant Rudeness

Jane Ulman October 12, 2000

Lack of civility is nothing new. If we had been a kinder, gentler and less stiff-necked people 3,310 years ago, Moses wouldn\’t have had to trek up Mt. Sinai for the Ten Commandments.

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