Tag: Hollywood
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...
Hollywood’s take on democracy: A watchlist for US election day
With the advent of one of the most fateful presidential elections in U.S. history, Israel Hayom offers readers a curated list of some of the best election-themed films and television series to binge until the exit...
The woke world goes to war against ‘Wonder Woman’
I’m not sure the world needed another movie about Cleopatra. And the career arc of Israeli actress Gal Gadot, who became an international superstar with her “Wonder Woman” films, isn’t something that matters all...
Hollywood Jews
There have been some Israeli actors and producers who left Israel to make it big in Hollywood, but regarding Jews from Hollywood who have come to live in Israel, I think I am the only one. To be fair, chances...
Nobember 21, 1945: Goldie Hawn was born
Goldie Hawn, whose arc in show business paralleled the arc of feminist empowerment in the 1970s, was born in Washington, DC on this date in 1945. Hawn played a giggling “dumb blonde” bikini girl...
Yiddish Glossary for Goyim: The Power Shmoozer’s Guide to Hollywood
In the era of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg, movie moguls tended to spice their jargon with expressions from the colorful vernacular of their pushcart-peddling forebears. The euphony of Yiddish is a tradition...
Israelis want to look like Kim Kardashian, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, survey says
A survey of 120 Israeli plastic surgeons released on Sunday showed that of all the famous Hollywood stars, most of their patients want to look like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
The survey, conducted by...