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9 Jewish LGBTQ activists you should know
Jewish Journal
June 27, 2016
New York City’s gay pride parade on Sunday was full of highlights. The NBA and WNBA became the first professional sports leagues to march.
Fran Drescher whines, shines as wicked stepmom in ‘Cinderella’
Jewish Journal
April 1, 2015
Fran Drescher sure knows how to make an entrance.
Miss World encourages rape survivors to speak out
Tom Tugend
November 13, 2013
In 1998, when Linor Abargil, the reigning Miss Israel, was crowned Miss World in the oldest of all international beauty pageants, she shed tears — perhaps of joy, maybe of anger, possibly a mixture of both.
Confessions of a foodaholic
Jewish Journal
June 26, 2013
Renée Taylor’s been on a diet since World War II, and, no, that’s not a misprint. The octogenarian actress, known to many for her role as Fran Drescher’s mother, Sylvia Fine, on the popular sitcom “The Nanny,” and for playing characters like Eva Braun in the original 1967 film “The Producers,” has been watching her weight since the Roosevelt administration. In 70 years of counting calories, she’s heard about and tried nearly every fad diet on earth, and now she’s taken those experiences and turned them into a humorous one-woman show, “My Life on a Diet,” now work-shopping at the Working Stage Theater in West Hollywood.
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.
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