Apparently, Demi Moore is the only thing people will be seeing on Ashton Kutcher\’s arm these days. In the actor\’s new film, \”Guess Who,\” Sony Pictures spent some $100,000 to digitally remove a red string kabbalah bracelet from his wrist, according to a recent article by MSNBC.com\’s Jeanette Walls.
Southern Californians can travel from Pharaoh\’s palace to Midwestern wheat fields to a rain forest — all without leaving Westwood.
My friend Rhonda asked me nonchalantly, \”Where are you going for Pesach this year?\”
Envisioning the whirlwind travels ahead, my head began to spin. \”I\’ll begin at Target for new shelf paper, sponges, paper goods, cleansers and a new broom. Then I\’ll dock briefly at Ralphs for the special deal on shmura matzah and whatever else they\’ve got for Pesach that\’s on sale. Next I\’ll bully my way in to the kosher market for meat, wine and enough matzah meal to plug up the Hoover Dam. Then I\’ll get over to Stan\’s Produce for fruits and vegetables. By that time, I\’ll have thought of dozens of other things I need, and start the whole thing over again. How about you?\”
Before she inspired her father\’s debut film, \”Smile\” — a feature about an American teenager who goes abroad to help children with facial deformities — Katie Kramer was a normal, popular student at Malibu High School.
Friends of Valley Cities JCC and Westside JCC: 7:30 p.m. Celebrity staged play reading of \”Driving Miss Daisy\”with Charlotte Rae, Charlie Robinson and Alan Blumenfeld. $12-$16. Valley Cities JCC, Sherman Oaks.
Inch by Inch, Row by Row! This week\’s Torah portion, Tazria, means: \”If a woman gives birth,\” but it can also mean \”plant.\” And so, being the beginning of spring, that is exactly what it is time to do!
A Los Angeles rabbi has retracted his charge that Mayor James Hahn\’s reelection campaign was \”dishonost and manipulative\” in claiming endorsements from Jewish community leaders.
On March 31, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that 17 foreigners converted to Judaism by non-Orthodox rabbinic courts must be considered as Jews under the Law of Return. The Law of Return has long extended legal recognition as Jews to Reform and Conservative converts who have moved to Israel from the Diaspora.
Yvan Attal huddles on a velvet couch in a corner of the cavernous Chateau Marmont lobby, a study in nervous energy. The Israeli-born French actor-director, who is charming if energetic, furrows his brow and runs his fingers through his tousled black hair. It\’s not hard to believe that one of his film idols is Woody Allen (\”I identify with his neuroses\”) or that he makes films that serve as personal therapy.\n\nConsider his new dark comedy, the frenetically paced \”Happily Ever After,\” which explores his midlife crisis. He got the idea in 2003 when he dropped his son off at preschool and noticed most of the other parents were divorced.\n\n\”I began thinking about my own life and the choices I have made, and they felt enormous and scary,\” he said.
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