\”I see Christmas as a cultural and family holiday,\” Joe Roth said, while the movie itself carries two main messages. It\’s first about the sense of family and community that supercedes any particular holiday. Secondly, it\’s a satire on the over-commercialization of Christmas.\”
I understand that by many peoples\’ standards, Stern is indecent, but he has been so for a long, long time. The incident that prompted Clear Channel to dump him, and for which the FCC may levy fines, has been so commonplace on his program that it could have been mistaken for a promo spot.
All traces of the solemnity and sadness of Holocaust Remembrance Day were gone by nightfall when the gang from New York-based Heeb Magazine threw their first West Coast party at the Hollywood-and-Vine hotspot Deep.
In \”Turnaround,\” the third play in Roger Kumble\’s sardonic trilogy about Hollywood, Jewish hack Jeff Pelzman gushes over a sure-fire hit movie.
Interfaith relations between Christians and Jews have become a feel-good cliché among the well-meaning and a target of satire, a la Tom Lehrer\’s \”National Brotherhood Week,\” among cynics.\n\nFor readers in either category, the two-hour documentary, \”Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith,\” provides a first-class history lesson and an antidote against oversimplification and easy stereotypes. The documentary will air Dec. 7 on PBS station KCET, starting at 10:30 p.m.
The Anti-Defamation League is not amused by a \”Saturday Night Live\” satire in which cast members, posing as pop stars, said that Jews own all the banks and that Christians have forgiven them for \”killing our Lord.\”
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