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Theater: Tolins draws on his own mentorship ‘Secrets’
\”Everything I write is a question of identity,\” Jonathan Tolins says over tea after a yoga class in Sherman Oaks. \”What choices do you have? What roles do you take on?\”
Final Frontier calls to Nimoy
In 2002, Leonard Nimoy, now 76, said he was retiring from acting to focus on photography. But in May 2009, he\’ll return to the silver screen as the pointy-eared pop culture icon who has been his alter ego since \”Star Trek\” debuted on television in 1966.
Sondheim and Yiddish songs are ‘like prayer’ for Patinkin
\”I have acquired a taste for Patinkin verging on addiction,\” Clive Barnes wrote in the New York Post in 2001.\n\nMaybe you know him as Inigo Montoya, the Spanish fencer in \”The Princess Bride,\” who shouts, \”My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!\”\n\nOr perhaps you were introduced to him in \”Yentl,\” as the serious yeshiva boy whose confused feelings for Babs\’ cross-dressing Torah student entwined him in romance.\n\nOr maybe you simply know him as Mandy Patinkin, master showman.
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Kirk Douglas packs 90 years of living into latest book
Kirk Douglas is not done yet, not by a long shot. Just out is his ninth book, \”Let\’s Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving and Learning.\” It is a mix of reminiscences, anecdotes, tributes to Hollywood luminaries now faded or gone, a critique of America\’s present leadership and somber thoughts on the drug-induced suicide of Eric, the youngest of his four sons.
Yiddish curtain rises at the University of Judaism
In a showbiz career that has spanned nearly six decades, Israeli American actor Mike Burstyn has played everyone from Al Jolson and Tevye to Nathan Detroit and P.T. Barnum.
Alan Arkin — not just another kid From Brooklyn
Alan Arkin is no more a stranger to playing curmudgeons than he is to receiving award nominations.
Ricky Ashley comes of age — on stage and off
Here is a question for the rabbis: Can a teenager acting out a bar mitzvah on stage actually get credit for becoming a man? What if he has rehearsed for months? And what if he reads a real Haftorah? Ricky Ashley, the 17-year-old who stars in the new musical \”13,\” never had a bar mitzvah. He was too busy acting and never found time to prepare. But now, Ashley is playing Evan Goldman, a 13-year-old who has his coming of age ceremony after moving to a new school in a new town, where the kids confuse \”bar mitzvah\” with \”Bon Jovi.\”
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