Mobster Makes Good
Mike Levy
September 13, 2001
"It\’s a blessing to be able to work in this business. I don\’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth," says busy actor David Proval.
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What Do You Tell the Kids?
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 13, 2001
So what do you say to children when hate explodes in our world, taking with it thousands of lives?
That is what educators at Pressman Academy at Temple Beth Am dealt with Tuesday, after they made an early morning decision to keep the Westside Conservative day school open, even as other Jewish day schools across Los Angeles canceled classes for the day.
17 Years Ago: Armageddon
Rob Eshman
September 13, 2001
Early Tuesday morning, my wife and I stared dumbly at the television, mumbling words like hijacked, explosion, collapse. My daughter, 5, looked up from her cereal, confused and frustrated. What language are you speaking? she asked. They were words almost unspoken in American living rooms. But no longer.\n\n
Reality Doesn’t Bite
Teresa Strasser
September 6, 2001
Last night, I was watching \”Big Brother,\” a show mocked for its lack of action. Call me crazy, but to me, it\’s Chekhov; it\’s all about the subtext. Anyway, a contestant named Bunky was voted out of the house last week. That\’s when I realized that slowly, quietly, the new breed of reality shows is causing a revolution.
Television Jews: How Jewish Is Too Jewish?
Sally Ogle Davis
September 6, 2001
The new television season is upon us. African American and Latino groups are making the expected protests about the lack of people who look like them before and aft of the camera, and the Jews are — as usual — adding up their TV IQ on the fingers of one hand.
If there aren\’t many \”brothers\” out there, there are even fewer \”Members of the Tribe,\” and those that are there are not particularly Jewish Jews, if you know what I mean.
Beyond Bay
Naomi Pfefferman
September 6, 2001
Oded Fehr\’s shining moment came when an Arab recently unrolled his car window and shouted, \”You make us Middle Easterners proud!\”\n\nHe was referring to the Israeli actor\’s performance as dashing desert warrior Ardeth Bay, Brendan Fraser\’s Mummy-busting partner in \”The Mummy\” and \”The Mummy Returns.\” \”Given the political situation, that was the nicest compliment I could get,\” says the star of the new NBC drama \”UC: Undercover,\” who was voted \”Sexiest Import\” by People in 1999. \”Arabs have been unfairly typecast as terrorists, and I was proud to play one who was heroic.\”\n\n
Amazing ‘Grace’
Naomi Pfefferman
June 21, 2001
In the pilot episode of "State of Grace," 12-year-old Grace McKee sashays out of her limousine and plucks the mezuzah off her friend Hannah Rayburn\’s front door.
Groopman’s World
Ivor Davis
October 5, 2000
For those who don\’t remember, Attanasio is the brilliant creator and writer of \”Homicide: Life on the Street,\” the former NBC series that was always more beloved by critics and its small but fanatically devoted group of viewers than by the public at large. Among the talents spawned by that show, none made more of an impression than Andre Braugher, a Shakespearean-trained actor of enormous power who, during the show\’s run, got himself a cover of TV Guide which asked the question in banner headlines: \”Is this the best actor on television?\”
One Rabbi’s Book Tour
Rob Eshman
November 4, 1999
I am watching my wife with Matt Lauer. She is on \”The Today Show,\” sitting across from the handsome host, both of them locked on each other\’s eyes the way beautiful people lock eyes on, well, television.\nIt\’s a strange thing, sitting on our couch alone watching Matt Lauer with my wife. I am rooting for him to become visibly awestruck by her. I want him to express his awe on air, to tell the world how wonderful she is.\n\nWhy? Mostly because it\’s true. And also because it sells books.
Invisible People
Jewish Journal
October 7, 1999
This past summer I saw an old friend of mine in New York, a woman I had met shortly after arriving in the city years ago. On several occasions Nancy and I had worked together. Our conversation was warm, affectionate, biographical. Catching up on one another, as it were, and then onto the turns and curves in our friends\’ lives.
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