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Susan Josephs
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Sitting in her living room and poring through an enormous photo album, Alexandra More acts like the proud parent of successful offspring.
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Q & A With Bahar Soomekh
Karmel Melamed
May 11, 2006
Persian Jewish actress Bahar Soomekh earned some serious attention last year when she played a young Iranian in \”Crash,\” the Academy Award winner for best picture. She\’s now appearing in an even bigger role — playing alongside Tom Cruise in the thriller, \”M:I:III.\” On the eve of the film\’s debut, Soomekh spoke about growing up Persian Jewish in Los Angeles and about her career.\n
Our Date With Drew’s Date
Amy Klein
August 11, 2005
There are plenty of guys with crushes on Drew Barrymore, the actress who began as a child ingénue at age 6 in \”E.T.\” and who captivates as an adult in sexier roles like her turn as one of \”Charlie\’s Angels.\”
Spectator – How Sweet She Is
Naomi Pfefferman
June 16, 2005
At the beginning of her risqué comic monologue, \”Sugar Happens,\” Rachel Bailit struts onstage wearing a tight black corset, a skimpy skirt, garters, thigh-highs and an attitude.\n\n\”I know what you\’re thinking: Big boobs … big lips. Bimbo. Starlet. Slut,\” she says. \”But don\’t judge me; you don\’t really know me. I\’m just a nice Jewish girl from Needham, Mass.\”\n\nWhile laundering her costume at her rent-controlled Santa Monica apartment recently, the cheery actress says she intends her introduction to confront the bimbo stereotype and to declare, \”I\’m a lot more than that.\”
Spectator – ‘The Nanny’ Robs the Cradle
Keren Engelberg
May 5, 2005
May/December romances are in. Just ask Hollywood. But we\’re not talking Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones. There\’s absolutely nothing new about older actors dating younger actresses (can you say Bogie and Bacall?) Nope, it\’s the older woman/younger man scenario that\’s making headlines, specifically the relationship between Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher.
Feldshuh Enjoys View From ‘Balcony’
Kelly Hartog
January 27, 2005
\”There are three female historical figures that I have wanted to play: Golda Meir, Indira Ghandi and Margaret Thatcher. And the last two haven\’t been offered to me.\”
African Shoah Lives in ‘Hotel Rwanda’
David Finnigan
December 23, 2004
When British actress Sophie Okonedo portrayed the wife of a hotel manager who saved more than 1,200 people during Rwanda\’s 1994 genocide, she worked with 10,000 extras — including Rwandan refugees living in Johannesburg.
No Stranger to Strange
David Finnigan
November 18, 2004
From call girl to Trump girl, actress Lisa Edelstein has played myriad parts on stage and off. Now she\’s landed a plum role, starring on the Fox TV series \”House,\” an \”E.R.\”-meets-\”CSI\” drama. The Boston native heads the fictional teaching hospital that houses strangely ill patients.
‘Bonkers’ Finds Humor in Hell
Naomi Pfefferman
June 24, 2004
"I personally detest theater as therapy," Julianne Grossman said. "I don\’t want to see someone \’catharsis-izing\’ all over me in an attempt to heal themselves."
Curtain to Rise on Women’s Conflicts
Naomi Pfefferman
February 26, 2004
In a rehearsal room at the Odyssey Theatre, Colette Freedman propped her electric-blue high tops on a chair and good naturedly laughed at herself. \”I\’m truly flawed,\” the 30-ish actress-playwright said. \”I am totally a hypocrite.\”\n\nWell, not totally. While her \”Deconstructing the Torah,\” an evening of one-acts, skewers part of herself, it mostly dissects conflicts faced by Freedman and other modern Jewish women.
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