Laurie Heifetz
By Laurie Heifetz
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Israel News Director’s Mom Kvells Over Casting Coup
Helena Bonham-Carter saved the day for Paul Weiland, who is the director of “Sixty Six,” a film inspired by Weiland’s own 1966 bar mitzvah in England. At a recent preview screening at the JCC in Manhattan, the 55-year-old Brit revealed his mother’s reservations about the comedy: “I only really got away with making this movie…
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Israel News Hairspray’s Hebrew Hotties
Heartthrob Zac Efron might be linked to such thin-limbed starlets as Vanessa Anne Hudgens and fellow member-of-the-tribe Ashley Tisdale, both of the Disney Channel’s “High School Musical,” but perfectly toned abs aren’t everything for the star of the new film “Hairspray,” which opens today. “It’s really great in the movie, because in real life I’ve…
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Israel News Futterman Moved by ‘Mighty Heart’
Dan Futterman has stepped out of the world of comedy. The actor, whom many know for his recurring role on the now-defunct NBC series “Will & Grace,” stars in the new film “A Mighty Heart,” playing slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Futterman’s agent recommended that he read the script and the book by…
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Israel News Scarlett’s Falling Morningstar
Last fall, actress Scarlett Johansson was named to this paper’s annual list of the American Jewish world’s top 50 movers and shakers. Not only had the voluptuous starlet — who has a Danish father and a Jewish mother — apparently cured Woody Allen of his shiksa fetish, but she was slated to play one of…
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Israel News Howard Stern, Wedding Smasher?
The Shmooze had a very important question for Howard Stern when we spotted the shock-jock with fiancee Beth Ostrosky on April 26 at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his friend Adam Carolla’s film, “The Hammer.” “Will you be breaking the glass at your wedding?” we asked. “We haven’t figured out the wedding yet,” Stern…
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Israel News Yankee Trailblazer Passes his Torch
Count Ron Blomberg, Major League Baseball’s first designated hitter, among those Jewish fans happy to see Shawn Green in New York — even if the right fielder did fall short of leading the Mets to the World Series. “I think it’s wonderful. Jews are just itching to have another ball player,” Blomberg (pronounced Bloomberg) told…
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Israel News ‘Break-Up’ Screenwriter To Get Hitched
‘The rabbi told me to keep it short,” screenwriter Jeremy Garelick said at the start of a recent Sabbath-eve talk in New York. “I was trying to revise what I had written, and then I ran a spell-check and decided it would be much faster just to read the words that were misspelled: cholent, Aniston,…
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Israel News King of Comedy, Queen of Sheba
Comedian Jackie Mason’s latest one-man show may be called “Freshly Squeezed,” but his 20-year-old daughter Sheba’s brand of comedy may just be fresher still. Though now in the same field, the two Masons haven’t been all that close. For one, Sheba’s mother, actress Ginger Reiter, had to sue Mason in order to establish his paternity….
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