Category Archives: Hollywood

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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