By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –“Like a proud mama, showing off her new baby,” crowed Chris Fink, in response to my query about how she felt as this year’s Chairperson for the San Diego Jewish Film Festival. The 27th annual festival runs from February 8-19, and boasts films from twenty one different countries, […]
LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary nominee, Steven Mnuchin, has been sued again by a film financier that accuses Mnuchin and others of fraud related to the collapse of movie and TV company Relativity Media. RKA Film Financing, in an amended complaint filed Thursday in New York County Supreme Court, renewed its claim
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USADonald Trump’s rise to the presidency of the United States might’ve been nothing more than a stunt to get a bigger contract on “The Apprentice,” according to his close friend Howard Stern. The president never actually wanted to win the election, and instead, was hoping there was still a chance his opponent will take over,
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAArnold Schwarzenegger, the Celebrity Apprentice host and former California governor, on Thursday morning asked President Donald Trump to switch roles, after the commander-in-chief mocked the actor’s low TV ratings while addressing the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. Related: Trump blasts Apprentice ratings on Twitter, Schwarzenegger fires back “Hey Donald, I have a great idea,”
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe Wandering Review By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Since the film awards season is upon us, it is time to announce a list of the films that impressed me the most during 2016. I always caution my readers that I have all of the Jewish-themed documentary and feature film released last year, including many that
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International, Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastRenowned director and producer Steven Spielberg is looking for an Israeli boy to star in his next big film, Channel 10 News reported Monday. Spielberg will reportedly hold the auditions for the movie in the Jewish state, the report said, and is looking for an English-speaking boy aged 6 to 8. The movie will deal
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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & BroadcastOprah Winfrey is joining the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” as a contributor. The talk show host, actress, cable network owner and producer will appear in several segments a year on the program starting this fall, CBS News announced Tuesday. “I’ve been a big admirer of ’60 Minutes’ since my days as a young reporter,” Winfrey
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALOS ANGELES — Anyone tuning in to the SAG Awards on Sunday thinking they might be escaping news headlines for a couple of hours was quickly disabused of that notion as winner after winner used the platform to speak out against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. “This immigrant ban is a blemish and is un-American,”
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Mary Tyler Moore, who passed away last week, had a number of connections to the Jewish world, both in her real life (her husband Robert Levine is Jewish) and her performing life (an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show entitled “Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda” grappled with
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — ‘He who tires of London has tired of life,’ wrote Samuel Johnson, and I dare say he had a point. Even in the dead of winter, when the bone-chilling cold really does chill every inch of bone in your body, the place has its pleasures provided you are suitably
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodThe Kardashian sisters are going head-to-head with President Trump. Following the president’s executive order to ban Syrian refugees from entering the United States and a place 90-day hold on immigrants traveling to the country from seven middle eastern nations, the Kardashians, who are of Armenian descent, have fired back. Kim Kardashian West shot back at
Barbara Hale, best known for her Emmy Award-winning role as Perry Mason’s loyal secretary Della Street on the long-running 1950s and ’60s TV series starring Raymond Burr, has died. She was 94. Hale died Thursday, according to her son, actor William Katt, who posted the news on his Facebook page. Katt’s agent, Jacqueline Sander, said
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastYossi Chaikin’s tale of hard work, grit and determination took him from Kiryat Yam to the Juilliard School of Dance. Now, he’s made it to the big leagues By Ronit Bezalel CHICAGO — Yossi Chaikin, grew up in Kiryat Yam with immigrant parents from the former Soviet Union. So while he always knew that he
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe great British actor John Hurt has died at the age of 77. A Knight of the Realm the performer appeared in a number groundbreaking films. We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of John Hurt, who played Mr. Ollivander. Harry Potter fans will miss him very much. pic.twitter.com/xgSjePd4aV— Harry Potter Film (@HarryPotterFilm)
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