If you want proof that the communion wafer is just a matzo knockoff, or if you wonder where eggs really belong (seder plate? White House lawn? Omelette?), check out \”The Jews vs. Christians\” on April 3 at bang. Improv Studio on Fairfax Avenue.
\”King Levine,\” a two-act comedy at the Odyssey Theatre, is propelled by a fairly ingenious concept. Playwright Richard Krevolin has transformed Shakespeare\’s King Lear into an elderly, self-made business tycoon, who reigns supreme as the frozen-bialy monarch of America.
Peter Berg\’s \”Very Bad Things,\” the tale of a Las Vegas bachelor party gone terribly wrong, is the season\’s most twisted black comedy.
\”It\’s an Italian-Jewish mother thing. They don\’t understand that you\’re not hungry anymore!\”
A few years ago, at the age of 24, Brooklyn-born Danny Hoch got the kind of phone call most struggling actors dream of. It was his agent, telling him that the people from \”Seinfeld\” had called: they wanted Hoch to get on a plane the next morning to tape a guest-starring role on the hit television series.
Looking studiously at the floor during a recent interview, Ben Stiller came off less the Hollywood \”It\” dude than the cute, shy guy you had a crush on at Jewish summer camp.
Romantic relationships are confusing. So we search for guidance in many places, including the cinema. We look to movies because they\’re a contemporary cultural experience shared with our closest companions. And we\’re too lazy to read.
Sixty one and still full of surprises, that\’sWarren Beatty. This weekend, Beatty goes head to head at the boxoffice with \”The Horse Whisperer,\” starring that other senior iconRobert Redford. Redford, like his contemporary Beatty, not only starsbut also directs and produces his movie. May the best man win.
American Jews woke up in a different country today, now that \”Seinfeld\” signed off.\n
When you\’re still \”flying solo\” and your 35thbirthday comes a-knocking, suddenly, the pitifully comic titlescrowding the self-help shelves of your bookstore seem less like jokebooks and more like required reading.
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