We have long bemoaned the fact that female Jewish characters on screens big and small get the short shrift, and that our high points were still decades ago when Barbra took on Fanny Brice and Yentl. Well, the upcoming film version of the long-running off-Broadway comedy “Jewtopia” will not likely makes things any better. As…
The Schlep Sisters showcase their bagel and cream cheese headdresses. Photo by Norman Blake. Bacon tassels were a-twirling on June 24, just in time for Shabbat. In a jaw-dropping production at the non-profit Sideshows by the Seashore theater, mere steps from the Coney Island boardwalk, the fabulous Schlep Sisters celebrated bad Jewish girls and their…
Philip Roth has “wised up” and stopped reading fiction. The Washington Post profiles the last of Argentina’s Yiddish-speaking cowboys. Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek addresses a Tel Aviv BDS gathering, but talks mostly about European anti-Semitism. How Jewish Pittsburgher Alan Paul became a rock star in China. “They Hate Us Because We’re Blond,” says “Foreskin Man”…
For decades, a French Jewish host of chat show and variety programs on radio and television has been famous locally for filling a Johnny Carson/Ed Sullivan role, but with the likeability of a Mike Douglas/Merv Griffin. At 68, Michel Drucker, born in Normandy of Romanian and Austrian ancestry, has been looking back at his Jewish…
Babs fans, how lucky can you get? (Funny Lady pun!) Not only has the Duck Sauce song, “Barbra Streisand,” crept over 44 million YouTube views, far outnumbering any video of Streisand herself, a customizable version of the song is now going viral at GoBarbra. The website allows viewers to type in their own names or…
Two Israeli films, “Restoration” by Yossi Madmony and “Zero Motivation” by Talya Lavie, picked up prizes at Sundance. The Egyptian Museum was hit by looters, but it could have been worse. Israeli filmmakers have received death threats over their film on the Gaza war. Ian McEwan has defended his decision to accept the Jerusalem Prize,…
The fact that “Black Swan” and “Country Strong” are both movies about women who are ravaged by fame is hardly a spoiler. Anyone who has seen the films’ trailers — Natalie Portman’s bloody back and Gwyneth Paltrow’s teary battles with the bottle — gets a sense of how these characters’ quests for beauty and success…
From “Papa, can you hear me” to Mama Rose: Musical-theater fans and Barbra Streisand cultists are plotzing over the news that La Streisand has reportedly met with composer Stephen Sondheim and playwright Arthur Laurents to discuss starring in a film version of “Gypsy,” their classic 1959 musical. According to a dispatch in yesterday’s NYTimes.com Artsbeat…
די סצענע פֿון זינגערס קינדעריאָרן האָט ער געשילדערט אין זײַן בוך „פֿון אַ וועלט וואָס איז נישטאָ מער‟.
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