Jews in the News

Jews in the News: Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Silverman and Walter Matthau

Jews in the NewsPosted by Nate Bloom   At the Movies/On HBO   The 2012 film, “Hunger Games,” the first in a planned trilogy of films from the best-selling novels of the same name, was a mega box-office hit and critical success. The sequel, “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” opens…

Jews in the News: Shia Labeouf, Elizabeth Berkley Lauren & Paula Abdul

Jews in the NewsPosted by Nate Bloom   At the Movies/On TV   “Charlie Countryman,” which opens on Friday, Nov. 15, stars SHIA LABEOUF, 27, as a nice American whose late mother appears to him in a vision and tells him to go to Rumania. On the plane, he talks to another passenger,…

Jews in the News: James Lipton, George Segal and Tori Spelling

Jews in the NewsPosted by Nate Bloom Talk Show Beat   The Bravo cable show, “Inside the Actor’s Studio,” returns on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 8PM, with an interview with the principal cast of “Arrested Development.”  Host JAMES LIPTON, 87, has strong ties to the TV series,…

Jews in the News: Harrison Ford, Soleil Moon Frye and Michael Douglas

Jews in the News Posted by Nate Bloom   At the Movies   “Ender’s Game” is a big-budget sci-fi flick based on a best-selling novel of the same name. In the near future, an alien race’s attack on Earth is barely fended off by the heroics of Fleet Commander Rackham (Ben…

Jews in the News: Wyatt Russell, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Woody Allen

Jews in the News Posted by Nate Bloom   Halloween-y Stuff   If and when your kids, grandkids, or friends come home laden down with Halloween candy—you’ll no doubt find a few Tootsie rolls in their haul. The candy was named, in 1896, for CLARA “Tootsie” HIRSHFELD, the (then)…