The ‘Kid’s’ Staying Power
Naomi Pfefferman
July 18, 2002
Every day during the summer of 1942, 12-year-old Robert Evans set out with a copy of Radio Registry under his arm and hit every audition room in New York.
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Maseng of Many Hats
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
June 6, 2002
Somebody must have perfected human cloning, because no way is Danny Maseng just one person.
When the singer-songwriter-guitarist-actor-poet-dramatist-lay rabbi-teacher-visionary, who will headline the Fund for Reform Judaism\’s annual fundraiser at Temple Isaiah in Rancho Park on June 13, isn\’t performing, he may be teaching the Zohar, leading a service at his New York congregation or dashing off a new setting for a passage in Jewish liturgy.
Or he might be working institutionally on innovations in Jewish arts, Jewish worship, Jewish music or Jewish camping.
Rabbi for the ‘Summer’
Naomi Pfefferman
March 21, 2002
So he laid on the shtick to play Rabbi Jacobsen in Pete Jones\’ melodramatic film, \”Stolen Summer,\” which opens today in Los Angeles. The comedy-drama follows a Catholic kid bent on converting the rabbi\’s son. But Pollak didn\’t need to study Torah to prepare for his role. \”I\’m an old pro,\” he says. \”My first act was lip-syncing Bill Cosby\’s \’Noah and the Lord\’ bit when I was 10.\” By age 18, Pollak was performing hilarious \”Columbo\” impressions while moving just one eye.
Actor of ‘Favor’
Amy Klein
January 24, 2002
\”I am not Menachem.\” So says Israeli heartthrob Aki Avni, referring to his character in \”Time of Favor,\” the Israeli psychological thriller opening in Los Angeles movie theaters Feb 1. The film, winner of six Israeli Oscars last year, including picture of the year, tells the story of a religious settler army unit in which one student, Pini, takes to heart his rabbi\’s ideological rantings about the Temple Mount, and crazily decides to blow it up.
Time’s on his Side
Michael Aushenker
January 24, 2002
There\’s no denying that Fox\’s critically acclaimed \”24\” is a fast-moving show that, unlike other dramas, operates in \”real time\” — each 60-minute episode\’s action literally unfolds over an hour\’s time. \nBut what series co-creator Joel Surnow never anticipated was that his rookie show would move as fast in the real world: Not even halfway through its first season,\”24\” was nominated for Best TV Drama and Best Actor (Kiefer Sutherland)Golden Globes.Dark horse Sutherland won over perennial award show favorites Martin Sheen and James Gandolfini.\n\n
Carl Reiner gets to ‘Bloom’
Naomi Pfefferman
December 6, 2001
Getting cast in Steven Soderbergh\’s \”Ocean\’s 11,\” says Carl Reiner, was kind of like a scene from the Las Vegas heist movie.
Renegade Robbins
Naomi Pfefferman
October 25, 2001
Tim Robbins spied \”Mephisto,\” the Nazi-era play based on Klaus Mann\’s 1936 novel about an actor who pandered to the Nazis to advance his career, while rifling through a box of books on his way out of an English-language bookstore in Paris last March. The actor-writer-activist, then on location with Jonathan Demme\’s film, \”The Truth About Charlie,\” was searching for plays to direct at the Actors\’ Gang, the boldly original Los Angeles troupe he\’d co-founded with UCLA peers in 1981.
Higher-Ed Humor
Naomi Pfefferman
October 18, 2001
Seth Rogen knew zilch about sitcoms when he was hired as a staff writer on Judd Apatow\’s wry new Fox college comedy, \”Undeclared.\”
Mobster Makes Good
Mike Levy
September 13, 2001
"It\’s a blessing to be able to work in this business. I don\’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth," says busy actor David Proval.
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.
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