Looping is plugging in background sound for movies after they are shot so they sound more realistic. I had done some looping sessions before, but they were all in English. While this movie was also in English, there were plenty of scenes with Hebrew and Arabic in them. My Hebrew is far from perfect, but I can still pull off the Israeli accent so I was pretty sure I could do the job.
Ameenah Kaplan, who calls herself a \”hybrid\” — the product of an African American mother who converted to Judaism and a Jewish father — is directing, choreographing and co-producing \”Everyman for Himself.\” Appearing weekends at the Unknown Theatre in Hollywood, the show is a hybrid itself, in that it blends music, dance, theater and capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian dance form that incorporates self-defense maneuvers.
During the period he lived in New York and worked odd jobs, Charlie Kaufman once had a conversation with a colleague about Jews and height.
For Jason Alexander, best known as Jerry Seinfeld\’s hapless sidekick, George Costanza, a grass-roots peace initiative to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace is more than just \”yadda yadda yadda.\”
Jewish talent and themes scored only modestly in the Oscar nominations announced Tuesday.\nHowever, there was recognition for the critically acclaimed \”House of Sand and Fog\” by Vadim Perelman, a 39-year old native of Kiev, in his first feature film.
When I was young, my brother and I were trained to enter our house through the back door because, in all probability on a Wednesday afternoon, a rehearsal was taking place in the large living room of our Burbank house.
We\’re nice Jewish boys who love our mothers,\” Sam Wolfson said. \”We don\’t mean any harm,\” said his pal, Bryan Fogel.\n\nWolfson and Fogel feel nervous because they\’ve written and are starring in an irreverent play, \”Jewtopia,\” about a Jew who dislikes Jewish women (Wolfson), and a non-Jew who adores them (Fogel). They\’ve included over-the-top riffs on clichés such as theme bar mitzvahs, cheesy Purim carnivals, JAPS and the politically incorrect word, shvartze. They say they intended to humorously but lovingly exploit Jewish stereotypes the way plays like \”Nunsense\” exploit Catholic ones — but they\’re aware viewers could take offense.
Chabad of California\’s 22nd annual \”L\’Chaim to Life Telethon,\” hosted by Dennis Prager, was humming along nicely with a long roster of talent that included classic actors James Caan and Elliott Gould, comic actor Dom DeLuise and Israeli singer David \”Dudu\” Fisher. Then 10:30 p.m. rolls around and the KCET soundstage — where the telethon is broadcast — went amok. Enter the Sand Man.
\nLike the know-it-all self-help guru in her neurotic comedy, \”Amy\’s Orgasm,\” 28-year-old filmmaker Julie Davis had never had what you\’d call an actual boyfriend back in 1998. But she liked to dish out relationship advice. \”I had all these theories,\” says the effervescent writer-director, whose debut film, \”I Love You, Don\’t Touch Me,\” featured a 25-year-old virgin holding out for Mr. Right. \”Like, \’save yourself for the one,\’ and \’a woman doesn\’t need a man to feel complete.\’\”
The man who introduced \”method acting\” to America and taught the likes of Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, John Garfield, Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro and hundreds of other luminaries, was born Israel Lee Strassberg in the Polish part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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