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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Jewish celebrities

Jerry Lewis looks through the camera during filming of 'The Day the Clown Cried,' on March 20, 1972, Paris, France. (AP Photo/Jean Jacques Levy)
August 28, 2024, 12:44 am
Jerry Lewis’s infamously bad Holocaust film is having a moment. But you can’t watch it
Archival material related to ‘The Day the Clown Cried,’ the unreleased movie that ended the Jewish funnyman’s career, is now available, with a possible reboot on the horizon
By Andrew Lapin
Brazilian television magnate and TV host Silvio Santos waves on 30 August, 2001, after being held hostage for seven hours in his home in Sao Paulo. (MAURICIO LIMA / AFP)
August 19, 2024, 4:10 pm
Brazilian Jewish entertainment legend Silvio Santos dies at 93
Santos owned the television network SBT and created several variety shows, becoming an icon in Brazil with a decades-long career
By DÉBORA ÁLVARES
Natalie Portman attends the Apple TV+ series premiere of 'Lady in the Lake' at the Museum of Arts and Design on July 11, 2024, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
July 14, 2024, 10:39 am
Natalie Portman talks Jewish role in upcoming TV show
Israeli actress says ‘Lady of the Lake’ project took on a more personal tone as it is set in Baltimore, where her great-grandparents lived
By ToI Staff
In 'Treasure,' father-daughter duo Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry tour Poland, including Auschwitz. (Bleecker Street via JTA)
June 15, 2024, 4:34 pm
Stephen Fry, Lena Dunham take father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’
Now in US theaters, the film based on the 2000 novel ‘Too Many Men’ sees two grieving family members take a roots trip to Poland in the post-Soviet 1990s
By Toby Axelrod
Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder are shown in New York City in June 1982. (AP Photo)
March 26, 2024, 3:48 pm
‘Remembering Gene Wilder’ documentary salutes a Jewish comedy legend
Recently opened in NY and LA with a further rollout in the coming weeks, the film examines the comedic actor’s relationship with Mel Brooks – and what set their two styles apart
By Stephen Silver
Lizzy Savetsky wears a Star of David top ahead of the United Jewish Appeal Generosity Gala in New York City, March 14, 2024. (Courtesy)
March 21, 2024, 5:08 pm
Modern-day ‘Queen Esther’ Lizzy Savetsky gets real about her Israel activism
The social media star, former beauty queen, New York socialite and proud Zionist talks about her nonstop work and how she’s learned to drop the haters and empower fellow Jews
By Jordana Horn
Adam Sandler poses for media at a photo-call for the movie 'Spaceman' during the International Film, Festival Berlinale, in Berlin, Wednesday, February 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
March 7, 2024, 10:05 pm
Jewish comedian Adam Sandler was Hollywood’s highest earner in 2023
Netflix subscribers spent 500 million hours watching the actor’s movie catalog during the first half of last year, according to Forbes
By ToI Staff
Manager Paul Heyman communicates with Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania XXXI in Santa Clara, California, March 29, 2015. (Don Feria/AP Images for WWE, File)
March 7, 2024, 3:58 pm
Longtime Jewish wrestling promoter Paul Heyman to be inducted into WWE Hall of Fame
Holocaust survivor’s son began taking photos at wrestling events using camera bought with his bar mitzvah money, once said Mourner’s Kaddish over contender in ring
By Elliot Olshansky
Actor Brett Gelman in the crowd of a SAG-AFTRA union strike in Los Angeles, July 19, 2023. (Anton Bondarev / Shutterstock.com)
February 11, 2024, 1:04 pm
Actor Brett Gelman says book signings nixed due to antisemitism, anti-Israel sentiment
Stores in San Francisco and Ilinois cancel events where ‘Stranger Things’ star was due to plug his forthcoming short story collection
By ToI Staff
Cleavon Little, left, and Gene Wilder in a still from 'Blazing Saddles,' directed by Mel Brooks in 1974. (Warner Bros./Getty Images/ via JTA)
February 10, 2024, 1:35 am
‘Blazing Saddles’ marks a half-century of hilarity — and controversy
Released 50 years ago this week, the film juggles bawdiness, genre satire and political critique, and is still revered even as most admit today’s Hollywood would never let it fly
By Stephen Silver
US singer Montana Tucker arrives for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 4, 2024. (Robyn Beck/AFP)
February 5, 2024, 10:23 am
At Grammys, Montana Tucker highlights Hamas hostages with large yellow ribbon
Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. commemorates the 360 people massacred at the Supernova music festival on October 7: ‘Music must be our safe space’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Alanis Morissette shown on PBS' celebrity genealogy series 'Finding Your Roots.' (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)
January 4, 2024, 1:55 pm
Alanis Morissette uncovers family’s Holocaust history on TV show
Rock star tells PBS’s ‘Finding Your Roots’ she only found out she’s Jewish in her late 20s, believes maternal grandparents were so terrified of antisemitism they kept heritage hidden
By jacob gurvis
Legendary TV writer and producer Norman Lear has died at the age of 101. (Courtesy)
December 6, 2023, 7:17 pm
Norman Lear, Jewish creator of pioneering TV comedies, dies at 101
The ‘All In The Family’ creator and lifelong liberal helped bring social commentary and Black characters into the mainstream with shows like ‘The Jeffersons’ and ‘Sanford and Sons’
By Andrew Lapin
Amy Schumer speaks onstage during the 'Inside Amy Schumer' SAG Screening at Crosby Hotel on April 3, 2023 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images via AFP)
November 1, 2023, 3:04 pm
Celebrities spread stories of hostages to campaign for their freedom
Some, like comic Amy Schumer, face social media backlash, but remain undeterred
By Jessica Steinberg
Johanna Merlin was an actress, casting director and acting teacher; she appeared as Tzeitel in the original Broadway production of 'Fiddler on the Roof,' and is seen standing to the left of a castmate in a 1964 photo. (NYU Tisch Grad Acting; Michael Ochs Archives via JTA)
October 17, 2023, 4:02 pm
Joanna Merlin, original Tzeitel in Broadway’s ‘Fiddler,’ dies at 92
The famed acting coach and casting director was said to be the last disciple still teaching the Russian naturalistic technique of Michael Chekhov later adapted as ‘The Method’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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