- Oscars win awards for sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism and racism
Opinion
Was anybody else offended by the not-very-subtle onslaught of sexist, racist, homophobic and anti-semitic "jokes" at the Oscar ceremony on Sunday night?
- Michael Moore intervenes to help Palestinian filmmaker attend Academy Awards
Hollywood
Director and activist Michael Moore intervened to help Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat enter the United States to attend the Academy Awards ceremony.
- ‘Zero Dark’ writer faces the controversy
Hollywood
The time: 2003. The place: Black Site — Undisclosed Location. A battered man strung up by his wrists is being questioned by an interrogator. When he refuses to answer, he is forced to the ground and. . .
- Hollywood’s history lesson: What counts when truth gets in the way
Hollywood Jew
The year is 2063. In a Los Angeles classroom, a group of history students awaits the day’s lesson on the Civil War period. The teacher announces that instead of reading from a textbook, the class wi. . .
- Cheryl Cohen Greene: Sex Surrogate
Hollywood
Cheryl Cohen Greene has spent the last 40 years making her living having sex with people, but she’s not a prostitute. Greene is one of a small number of specialists in the United States known as sex. . .
- Alan Arkin relishes his role as a team player
Hollywood
Alan Arkin is not an actor who seeks individual glory. But that hasn’t prevented the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from singling him out several times. This year, Arkin has again been. . .
- Jack Paley: Celebrity chef
Hollywood Jew
When Hollywood wants to throw a dinner party, Jack Paley often gets the call. The veteran chef, who primarily works solo, is known to have cooked for a vast array of entertainment titans and Interne. . .
- Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ and the Jews: an untold story
Oscars
I loved "Lincoln" as much as anyone and, as an American historian, took a special pleasure in it. Among many other things, I thought the depiction of Thaddeus Stevens was terrific. As the father of. . .
- Two-and-a-half Jews spearhead Oscar nominations
Tom's Topics
Spearheaded by two-and-a-half Jews, “Lincoln” led the field with 12 Oscar nominations, announced Thursday (1/10) morning. Nominated in their respective categories were Steven Spielberg as director. . .
- Spielberg’s year? ‘Lincoln’ nabs 12 Oscar nominations
Hollywood Jew
Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," a film about the passage of the 13th amendment abolishing slavery, garnered the most Academy Award nominations of any film this year, including Best Picture as well as. . .
- The Torah of Les Misérables
Hollywood Jew
So what if the Les Mis cast of characers are thoroughly Christian and utterly French -- there's still Torah to be found in Victor Hugo's epic tale of redemption, writes Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky, a liber. . .
- ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ torture debate obscures bigger issues (Part 2)
Hollywood Jew
[Read part I here] The Oscar-hopeful film “Zero Dark Thirty,” about the ten-year manhunt for Osama bin Laden, has been the source of intense debate over its depiction of American use of torture.. . .
- ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ torture debate obscures bigger issues
Hollywood Jew
With Academy Award nominations just days away, the Oscar-winning team that includes director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal continue to endure harsh ignominy for their portrayal of tortu. . .
- Benh Zeitlin: Conquering his ‘Beasts’
The Ticket
In 2008, while doing research for what would become his first feature, “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Benh Zeitlin climbed inside the pickup truck he had purchased for $500 and drove down each of th. . .
- Billy Crystal back to basics in Oscar host comeback
Hollywood
Making a comeback as Oscar host after an eight-year absence, comedian Billy Crystal poked fun on Sunday night at his own reluctance to return and paid light-hearted tribute to leading nominees for the. . .
- Oscar gold again eludes Israel’s grasp
Bloggish
A brief groan of disappointment swept through the crowd of some 200 Israelis gathered at a Westside hotel with the announcement that the Iranian entry, “A Separation,” had beaten out four other fi. . .
- Academy Awards threatens to ban Sacha Baron Cohen
Hollywood
Actor Sacha Baron Cohen will be banned from the Academy Awards if he arrives at the Red Carpet dressed as The Dictator, a character from his upcoming film. Paramount’s awards staff said Baron Cohen w. . .
- Yo, L.A. Times: You forgot to mention most academy voters are part of a minority group
Hollywood Jew
An L.A. Times survey on the demographics of voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences found that a majority of its 5,765 members are “overwhelmingly” white males. The article r. . .
- For Mideast foes’ Oscar films, family trumps flag
Oscars
As their nations warn of war, the Israeli and Iranian directors facing off at next week’s Academy Awards share a reluctance to see politics read into their movies, both of which are portraits of troub. . .
- Hollywood celebrates ... Itself
Hollywood Jew
Everyone likes an ego boost. In Hollywood, merely a few months ago, critics and commentators were lamenting the lost luster of movie magic. In a blunt commentary last November titled “Film Is Dea. . .
- How studio exec-turned-producer pitched ‘Moneyball’
The Ticket
Rachael Horovitz sipped decaffeinated cappuccino at the Sunset Tower Hotel recently, overlooking a panorama of Hollywood and beyond. The elegant, poised producer had flown in from New York the night b. . .
- ‘Hugo’ writer Selznic talks of the magic of film
The Ticket
On the phone from his home in Brooklyn, Brian Selznick, author of illustrated novel “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” sounds more like your witty Jewish cousin from New York than the creator of a st. . .
- Her brother’s keeper: Letty Aronson is Woody Allen’s younger sister and producer/gatekeeper
Hollywood Jew
Woody Allen couldn’t care less about the Academy Awards. The 23-time nominee, mostly in the directing and writing categories, notoriously disapproves of the contest between creative works, eschews t. . .
- ‘Footnote’ could make this Israel’s year to win [VIDEO]
Oscars
For Israelis, winning the country’s first Oscar would be akin to scoring its first Olympic gold medal, which happened at the 2004 Games in Athens. “If ‘Footnote’ gets the Academy Award for be. . .
- The other silent actor: Max von Sydow plays a mute in a post-9/11 story
The Ticket
Before he became a cinematic legend in the films of Ingmar Bergman and as Father Merrin in “The Exorcist,” Max von Sydow engaged in far more intense performances for survivors of Nazi death camps. . .
- Is silence golden? An Interview with ‘The Artist’s’ Michel Hazanavicius
Hollywood Jew
Elie Wiesel was once famously asked whether Judaism has a tradition of silence. “Yes,” the author and Holocaust survivor answered. “But we don’t like to talk about it.” Silence, of course,. . .
- Revisiting Jonah Hill, Oscar nominee!
The Ticket
Jonah Hill is up for a supporting actor Oscar for his first dramatic turn in a major studio feature, “Moneyball,” and this whole awards season has been a heady time for the 28-year-old performer. . . .
- ‘Better Life’ producers thrilled with Demian Bichir’s Oscar nod
The Ticket
The underdog in the race for best actor at the 2012 Academy Awards is certainly Demian Bichir, who was nominated for his searing performance as an undocumented worker struggling to raise his troubled. . .
- ‘The Artist’s’ Jewish connection runs deep
Hollywood Jew
Don’t be fooled by the ardent Americana on display in the Oscar-nominated homage to silent film, because the only thing not utterly Jewish about “The Artist” is its abstention from dialogue. T. . .
- Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland on “In Darkness” [VIDEO]
The Ticket
Agnieszka Holland was sitting by a window in a Los Angeles hotel recently, bathed by sunlight streaming in through slatted Venetian blinds. Light and dark are the prominent metaphors in her film, “. . .
- Will this finally be the year for an Israeli Oscar?
![Israeli film director Joseph Cedar, right, and film producer Moshe Edery of the movie" />Israel at the Academy Awards… again
Hollywood
Most 43-year-old film directors/screenwriters cannot say that half of the films they have made were nominated for Academy Awards. Joseph Cedar is an exception to that rule. The 43-year-old Cedar, born. . .
Jews at the Oscars [FILM TRAILERS]
Hollywood
2012 Academy Awards: The Jewish nominees, angles and upsets
Jonah Hill, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, ‘Footnote’ in Oscar finals
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Hollywood
Joseph Cedar’s “Footnote,” Israel’s entry in the Oscar sweepstakes for best foreign-language film, has jumped the first major hurdle by making the shortlist of nine semi-finalists. “Footnot. . .
- Top Jewish moments at the 2012 Golden Globes [UPDATED]
Hollywood Jew
Ricky Gervais plays it safe. Harvey Weinstein is “God” and Seth Rogen admits “a massive erection” at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards. Here’s a loose collection of memorable moments for Hollywood Jews. . .
- Israel’s entry to Oscars does not plan to become a ‘Footnote’
Oscars
Joseph Cedar has made four movies during his 11-year career, and the first three have represented Israel in the Oscar races for Best Foreign-Language film. One made the five finalists cut, but none h. . .
- Jonah Hill: ‘Moneyball’s’ super-talented, super-nice Jewish boy [VIDEO]
The Ticket
Five minutes late to an interview at House Cafe on Beverly Boulevard, Jonah Hill apologizes like a contrite teenager. “I’m sorry I’m tardy,” he says, explaining he’d just flown in from shoot. . .
- Allen, Spielberg grab Golden Globe nominations
Hollywood
Famed directors Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg led the list of Jewish nominees for Golden Globe Awards. Allen with his “Midnight in Paris,” a critical and commercial success, was rewarded with. . .
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