Circuit
Gaby Wenig
October 21, 2004
On Oct. 4, the Beverly Hilton became the only place in town where you could watch Jeffrey Tambor and Rabbis Laura Geller and Debra Orenstein say Hamotzi.
Category
tv
‘Deadwood’ Lassos South Dakota Tales
Naomi Pfefferman
May 13, 2004
David Milch\’s HBO Western series, "Deadwood," tells of a grimy mining town where drinking, whoring, killing, cussing and cheating are de rigeur.
Reality Doesn’t Bite
Leora Alhadeff
March 11, 2004
Even though 20 million people saw Adam Mesh take the walk of shame and ride the lonely bus home on the final episode of the first season of "Average Joe, " post reality show breakup, Mesh seems to be picking up the pieces very well.
Producer Channels
Naomi Pfefferman
February 5, 2004
Gays weren\’t even on the radar in Ilene Chaiken\’s Jewish community in Philadelphia back in the 1960s.
Let There Be Bart
David Finnigan
January 29, 2004
Do you pray? Do you watch \”The Simpsons\” religiously? Do you pray while watching Bart and Homer and the rest of the Springfield gang?
It’s Hello Again for ‘The Goodbye Girl’
Tom Tugend
January 8, 2004
Basically, it\’s boy meets cute girl, girl hates boy and vice versa, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl will live happily, at least as long as it lasts.\n\nThe characters are updated and slightly older, Neil Simon said, but otherwise, a new TV version of his \”The Goodbye Girl\” retains the easy charm and predictable plot of the 1977 hit film and later Broadway play.\n\n\”The Goodbye Girl,\” TV style, will premiere Jan. 16 on Turner Network Television (TNT) at 8 p.m. and encore at the same time on Jan. 17 and 18.\n\n
Life After ‘Sex’
Amy Klein
September 11, 2003
\”I would prefer to marry someone who\’s Jewish,\” Cindy Chupack said, because most Jews have a \”built-in sense of humor, just because we\’ve had to develop one; it\’s one of our survival instincts or something.\” She finds humor really sexy, and likes Jewish family values, \”but we haven\’t cornered the market on that,\” she said.
Polish Director Honors Legacy With Classic Tale
Naomi Pfefferman
August 7, 2003
Before her Jewish father died in Polish police custody in 1961, director Agnieszka Holland saw the legendary 1937 Yiddish film, \”The Dybbuk,\” based on S. Ansky\’s play.
Too Much or Not Enough?
Michael Bronski
August 7, 2003
Did you hate Fran Drescher in \”The Nanny\” because she was, well, such a stereotype? And what side were you on in the bitter 1972 cultural war that emerged after \”Bridget Loves Bernie\” became the fifth most-watched television series, only to be canceled because Jewish religious groups alleged it was soft on intermarriage?
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