The former Kutz Camp will be a set for Ben Platt’s new movie, ‘Theater Camp’
The filmmakers have also promised to fund improvements to the camp.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is continuing its love affair with Jewish filmmakers with the 2020 Golden Globe nominees. We don’t expect that members of that outfit are particularly interested in Jewish geography, but here at the Forward, our offices are plastered with headshots connected by yards of red thread and dates of b’nai mitzvah….
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Attention, universe. Ben Platt has done it again! He’s updated his social media accounts, and this time, it’s lox related. Ben Platt has never once let us down. The Jewish singer-actor who bared his soul nightly on the Broadway stage in Dear Evan Hansen is now giving us even more to relate to. Platt stopped…
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