Jews in the News

Jews in the News: Miriam Shor, Robert Durst and Alison Brie

New on TV and Durst Background

“Weird Loners” premieres on Fox on Tuesday, March 31. Four 30-somethings, who haven’t had romantic luck, end up living together in a Queens, New York townhouse. One of the two female residents is Caryn Goldfarb, a high strung dental hygienist who is “…

Jews in the News: Billy Crystal, Sean Penn and Emma Forest

Celebs Behaving Badly or Wanting To
 
BILLY CRYSTAL
, 66, writing for the March issue of the AARP Bulletin, recounts he met legendary CBS newsman Walter Cronkite while working as a theater usher in the late 1960s. Excited to see the famous man, Crystal rushed-up to his seat and asked Cronkit…

Jews in the News: Leonard Nimoy, Idina Menzel and Bob Dylan

 Mensch=Nimoy

I know I wrote about the late LEONARD NIMOY last week. But here’s a story I just came upon that was not in any obit.  Last August, WALTER “Chekov” KOENIG, 78, spoke to the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. About Nimoy, he said: “Leonard was .a very good man. Sound ethics and…

Jews in the News: Leonard Nimoy, Scarlett Johansson and Michael Bloomberg

On Star Trek’s Tribe Members

No doubt, you heard that LEONARD NIMOY died last week, age 83.  His longer obits noted his many Jewish ties, including: raised in an Orthodox home, he re-embraced religious Judaism about 25 years ago; he celebrated the feminine aspect of G-d in a book (“She…

Jews in the News: Patricia Arquette, Jason Isaacs and David Shore

At the Movies

Opening on Friday, Feb. 27, is “Map to the Stars,” a dark satire about Hollywood written by BRUCE WAGNER, 60, and directed by veteran DAVID CRONENBERG, 71. The complex plot focuses on the plight of a former child star (Evan Bird) and an aging actress (Julianne Moore) whos…