Investigators say Hollywood heavy-hitter Harvey Weinstein was one of several targets of death threats and extortion attempts from an aspiring actor, the New York Post reports. Federal agents arrested 25-year-old West Hollywood resident Vivek Shah on Aug. 10 at his parents’ home in Schaumburg, Ill., on the charge of sending threatening interstate communications to the…
You think it would be easy for feminists to just say no when others challenge their choices, but, in reality, most women still have to yield to the will of others in what is still largely a man’s world in order to get things done. Well Rashida Jones, star of NBC’s hilarious (and nonchalantly feminist)…
President Obama raised a reported $12 million for his reelection campaign at a Hollywood fundraiser at George Clooney’s home co-hosted by top Obama donor Jeffrey Katzenbeg. The May 10 fundraiser came days after Obama announced his personal support of legal recognition for gay marriage. Though the president stopped well short of calling for federal legislation,…
Rachel Dratch just isn’t pretty enough. That is why, she writes in her new memoir, “Girl Walks Into A Bar,” she hasn’t made it big in films or on television post-SNL. “I am offered solely the parts that I like to refer to as The Unf-ckables. In reality, if you saw me walking down the…
When Jason Alexander, the veteran actor from the 1990s hit TV series “Seinfeld,” met Shimon Peres at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 8, it was, at first, as though Alexander were channeling his old character, George Costanza. “Happy Purim!” he exclaimed, immediately launching into a comedy routine. Then, commenting on the heavy security presence,…
When Jason Alexander, the veteran actor from the 1990’s hit TV series “Seinfeld,” met Shimon Peres at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Thursday night, it was, at first, as though he were channeling his old character, George Constanza. “Happy Purim!” he exclaimed, immediately launching into a comedy routine. Then, commenting on the heavy security on the…
Although she won’t admit it, Jill Soloway had a good year: She sold the scripts of three different pilots to three different networks; East Side Jews, the organization that she founded to foster a Jewish community in her corner of Los Angeles, is thriving; and the week before this reporter visited her attractive home, her…
Elissa Strauss hopes that a new remake of the movie “Dirty Dancing” keeps our beloved heroine, Baby, Jewish. In addition to preserving Baby and her family’s ethnic authenticity, which is important in grounding the film in a real milieu, I should add that I hope the remake keeps the essential, devastating abortion plotline, which is…
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