Actor Christopher Plummer was bewildered by the response to his monologue on the set of \”Nuremberg,\” the four-hour TNT miniseries about the war-crimes trial of 22 members of the Nazi high command.
Given the great heights of celebrity he has scaled, his 30-year career begs the question: what made Winkler last?
The Anti-Defamation League is not amused by a \”Saturday Night Live\” satire in which cast members, posing as pop stars, said that Jews own all the banks and that Christians have forgiven them for \”killing our Lord.\”
There is a haunting image in the early part of the PBS \”Frontline\” documentary on Pope John Paul II. As the Warsaw ghetto goes up in flames, just outside the wall and within sight and sound of the remaining Jewish resistance fighters, a carousel goes round and round, full of carefree, frolicking, young Poles
It\’s a unique mixture of Hollywood marketing savvy and Chassidic religious fervor — one of the last live variety shows on TV, according to its promoters. The goal is to surpass last year\’s telethon tote board total of $4,387,652.
\”Do they all have to be Italian?\”
This is the question the network executive asked the creator of \”Everybody Loves Raymond\” as they were casting Ray Romano\’s family.
Three years ago, the BBC decided to make a television documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1956 Sinai campaign.\n\nThe filmmakers were soon stymied in their search for one top-secret document: the Protocol of Sevres, in which leaders of the three temporary allies coordinated their plans to seize the Suez Canal, five days before the actual attack on Oct. 29, 1956.\n\n
The legendary writer-director-producer was speaking at a program that was part of the Skirball Cultural Center\’s \”Spotlight\” series — which is devoted this season to television.
The good news is that Roseanne may have finally found three nice Jewish boys as suitors for her three daughters. The bad news is that the boys live in England and the girls in Los Angeles.
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.
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