Sunday, August 4, marks the beginning of an important week for all lovers of our finned, fanged friends from the deep: Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week. At 25 years and counting, Shark Week is this country’s longest-running cable programming event. But many might not realize that there’s a Jewish connection to this summer phenomenon, and…
“Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice” (Proverbs, 24:17). That was easy for Solomon to say; it’s harder when your enemy is the ex-wife of a white-collar criminal who did plenty of rejoicing herself while living high on the ill-gotten hog. Who wouldn’t want to laugh…
Woody Allen is mulling a return to standup comedy. Allen’s latest movie, “Blue Jasmine,” comes out next week (stay tuned for my review), and for the occasion Allen did an interview with The New York Times’s Dave Itzikoff, in which he raised the possibility of making a return to the stage. Several of the actors…
On Monday, we ran a story called “Hottest Jewish Men: Who Was Left Out?” in response to Buzzfeed’s recent “Official Ranking Of The 51 Hottest Jewish Men In Hollywood.” In the comments, we asked you to point out some of your favorite Jewish hotties that we may have forgotten. We asked, and you spoke. Now…
Another year, another Woody Allen movie. Allen’s latest picture, “Blue Jasmine,” is scheduled for a July 26 release, but we can get a sense of it now thanks to a trailer that was released this weekend. With Cate Blanchett starring as a trophy wife whose husband (Alec Baldwin) turns out to be a Bernie Madoff-esque criminal,…
Film critics have finally gotten an idea of what Woody Allen’s new film, “Blue Jasmine,” is really all about. After obtaining a screening of the film, the Wall Street Journal reports the film is a fictional recount of the family life and ponzi scheme of Jewish fraudster Bernie Madoff. The film tells of a high-society…
He might know everything about the movie industry after a half-century film career, but Woody Allen doesn’t know much about social media. Which is why he had to rely on his fellow Hollywood Jew, Zach Braff, to explain exactly how crowd-funding works. In an interview with Siruis XM radio yesterday, the “Scrubs” star revealed that…
A Jewish mother gives her son two ties on the first night of Hanukkah. The following morning, when he comes down for breakfast, he is wearing one of them. The mom says, “What’s the matter — you didn’t like the other one?” — Sheldon Kimmelman in “Old Jews Telling Jokes” Even while guffawing at old…
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