Tag: Hollywood
Gal Gadot to become first Israeli actor with Walk of Fame star
Gal Gadot will next year become the first Israeli actor or actress to be honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
“This is unbelievable. I’m so, so grateful and thankful and humbled,” said Gadot...
The antisemitic BDS war on celebrities
The BDS movement has been a total failure. It has not damaged Israel’s economy, it has not turned Israel into a pariah, it has not changed Israeli policy, and it has not destroyed the Jewish state....
Nancy Spielberg: ‘We have to get people back into the theater’
When Israeli filmmaker Tal Inbar approached Nancy Spielberg with her documentary “Closed Circuit,” about a deadly terrorist shooting at a Tel Aviv cafe in June 2016, Nancy Spielberg knew that she had to produce...
Robert Clary, ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ star and Holocaust survivor, dies at 96
Robert Clary, a Holocaust survivor best known as the French actor who starred in the CBS-TV series “Hogan’s Heroes,” died at his home in Los Angeles on Nov. 15 at age 96.
Family members did not provide...
James Caan, best known for role of Sonny in ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 82
Santino (“Sonny”) Corleone was a hot head whose life ended in a hail of bullets.
James Caan, the Jewish actor who played the iconic role in “The Godfather,” lived much longer than that, though was...
Filmmaker and comedian Albert Brooks subject of classmate Rob Reiner film
Actor and film movie director Rob Reiner told the entertainment paper Variety that he is working on a new documentary about Jewish comedian, filmmaker and actor Albert Brooks.
Reiner, son of the late Jewish actor, director, screenwriter and comedian...
Jewish comedians react to Academy Awards ‘slap heard round the world’
When Will Smith jumped up on stage at the Academy Awards on Sunday night to approach fellow comedian and actor Chris Rock, the host of the show, many in the audience assumed it was...
Ivan Reitman, ‘Ghostbusters’ director and son of Holocaust survivors, dies at age 75
Jewish producer and director Ivan Reitman died in his sleep on Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., at the age of 75, his family told The Associated Press.
“Our family is grieving the unexpected...
Hollywood’s war on Judaism
A doctor walks up to a Chassidic Jewish teen lying in a hospital bed and tells him he needs a bone graft to save his leg. The teen and his father both worry that...
The Hollywood blacklist is back, and Jewish liberals are fine with it
One of the staples of the Los Angeles entertainment world in the last few decades has been stories that depict the unfairness and cruelty of the Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s. At the height...