“Gangster Squad” stars SEAN PENN, 52, as (real-life) gangster MICKEY COHEN (1913-76). BENJAMIN ‘Bugsy” SIEGEL came to
The movie is “loosely” based on a 2008 series of articles in the LA Times about the squad that can be read, on-line, for free. The film centers on two Squad members, played by Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling, who try and get Cohen “by any means necessary.” In real-life, they never got Cohen. The feds got him: in 1961, he was sent to
Golden Globes, 2013
The Globes ceremony will be broadcast on NBC on Sunday, January 13, at 8PM. Here are the Jewish nominees and a few others of “Jewish interest”.
Film nominees: Best actor (drama film): JOAQUIN PHOENIX, 38, "The Master"; and, with an asterisk, Daniel Day-Lewis, 55, "
TV nominees: Best lead actress (TV drama): JULIANNA MARGULIES, 46, “The Good Wife”; Best lead actress (TV comedy): LENA DUNHAM, 26, “Girls”; Supporting actor--TV series or TV movie: MAX GREENFIELD, 32, “New Girl” and MANDY PATINKIN, 60, “Homeland.”
Separate awards are made for best drama film and best comedy or musical film. The award goes to producers. I’m sure these films have a Jewish producer---Drama: “Lincoln” (Spielberg); “Argo” (GRANT HESLOV); “Zero Dark Thirty” (Boal); Comedy/Musical: “Les Misérables” (ERIC FELLNER); “
Best TV drama: “Homeland” (HOWARD GORDON); “The Newsroom” (AARON SORKIN and
Sorkin, Lorre, Crane, Dunham, and Levitan are also credited with being the creator or co-creators of the above series and have written for these shows.
Globe Footnotes
Ewan McGregor, best actor/film comedy (“Salmon Fishing in the
The newcomer star of “Moonrise Kingdom,” JARED GILMAN, recently had his bar mitzvah and Alka Seltzer, in an effort to raise flagging sales, has just brought back “Speedy Alka-Seltzer” singing the famous “plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is” jingle. The jingle, a huge ad hit from 1975-1980, was written by PAUL MARGULIES, a retired ad man who is Julianne Margulies’ father.
Nate Bloom writes a weekly column on Jewish celebrities, broadly defined, that appears in the Atlanta Jewish Times, the Cleveland Jewish News, the American Israelite of Cincinnati, the Detroit Jewish News, and the New Jersey Jewish Standard. It also appears bi-weekly in j., the Jewish news weekly of northern California. Most of the items in Bloom’s weekly newspaper column differ from the items in his bi-weekly column on interfaith celebrities for InterfaithFamily.com. If you wish to contact Nate Bloom, e-mail him at middleoftheroad1@aol.com . The author welcomes questions and celebrity “tips,” especially about people you personally know.
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