Category Archives: Hollywood

‘Standard Operating Procedure’

If you think Abu Ghraib (humiliation of Iraqi prisoners and occasional torture) was an important story, then you should see this new documentary from Sony Classics. I don’t think Abu Ghraib is a big deal. This movie is competent and … Continue reading

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Street Kings – Riveting New Crime Drama Starring Keanu Reeves

I just caught an advanced screening. Here’s my video review. The movie’s about an alcoholic. Normally I hate movies about alcoholics. I can’t stand alcoholics. I don’t know why, but it is one weakness (along with drug abuse) that I … Continue reading

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Hasidic Actor Walks Off Natalie Portman Movie

From the New York Daily News: First he couldn’t hold Natalie Portman’s hand – and now a Williamsburg Hasidic Jew-turned-actor has to give up his chance to hit it big in a Hollywood movie. Abe Karpen, 25, a married father … Continue reading

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Yiddish Theater: A Love Story

Sunday morning, I catch a screening at the Laemmle theater in Santa Monica. In it, a professor of Yiddish at Vilnius University in Lithuania, an absolute bear of a man, talks about immigrant Jews wanting their children to speak English … Continue reading

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Can Seth Rogen’s ‘Porno’ Sell Tickets?

I fear that we are defining deviancy down at a time when we should be raising moral standards, not lowering them. That’s why I’m running my live cam (maybe that’s why I’m all alone on my cam now, my insights … Continue reading

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Singer/Actor Rick Moses Talks About His Conversion To Orthodox Judaism

Three weeks ago while having lunch with Evan Sayet at Milk n’ Honey, I got into a conversation with singer/actor Rick Moses (Young Dan’l Boone, General Hospital, Avalanche) who was sitting next to us. On Thursday, Feb. 21, I interview … Continue reading

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Ron Rifkin’s Jewish Journeys

LimmudLA weekend in Costa Mesa: Video of Ron Rifkin On Sunday morning, actor Ron Rifkin, 69, talks about his Jewish journeys. Raised Orthodox, sent to yeshivot, he’s never been to Israel. "I don’t travel well." He left Orthodox Judaism at … Continue reading

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What Are You Doing To Celebrate Black History Month?

Khunrum emails: "Booger Black History month….I’m fuming that Spielberg has dropped out of the Olympics because of the "suffering in Darfur" without mentioning the suffering in Burma where military thugs have been repressing Democracy for years. The missus, (Ms. SOpee) … Continue reading

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Aussie Actor Heath Ledger Reminded Americans How To Be Strong

Brendan O’Neill writes for Jewcy: The tragic death of Heath Ledger — just determined to be an overdose — has robbed Hollywood of one of its Australian stand-ins for American machismo. Never mind the trade deficit, or even Barack Obama’s … Continue reading

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Heath Ledger “drug video” airs in Oz

From TabloidBaby: Here in America, Entertainment Tonight had a sudden, unexpected and out-of-character concern for the family of dead actor Heath Ledger (after all, ET cheerfully greased the skids toward Anna Nicole Smith’s demise), and had a grand time in … Continue reading

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