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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 349

Jews in showbusiness

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
Author and native New Yorker Sarah Seltzer, left, and the cover of her debut novel 'The Singer Sisters.' (Kurt Sneddon/Flatiron Books/ via JTA)
August 27, 2024, 1:07 am
In new book ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish rock music family finds sex, drugs – and deli
While some of the most iconic folk legends of the ’60s and ’70s were Members of the Tribe, author Sarah Seltzer’s fictional dynasty’s drama strikes a particularly Jewish chord
By Gabe Friedman
Curator Dara Jaffe, left, and Academy Museum President Jacqueline Stewart at a press viewing of the new 'Hollywoodland' exhibit, May 16, 2024. (Jacob Gurvis/ JTA)
May 19, 2024, 4:28 am
New exhibit aims to rectify LA Academy Museum’s omission of Hollywood’s Jewish origins
2.5 years in, museum’s first permanent installation on role of Jewish immigrants in founding America’s film industry is set to open Sunday after outcry at their initial exclusion
By jacob gurvis
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
From left to right: Variety contributor Malina Saval, Alex Edelman, Ike Barinholtz, Marc Maron and Tiffany Haddish speak onstage during the Variety Hollywood & Antisemitism Summit in West Hollywood, California, October 18, 2023. (Araya Doheny/Variety via Getty Images via JTA)
October 20, 2023, 4:40 pm
Variety’s star-studded Hollywood summit on antisemitism takes turn amid war in Israel
Though planned before the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, the Jewish state dominated discussion with A-listers that also included Jewish representation onscreen and combating bigotry
By jacob gurvis
Julian Schlossberg, center, is shown with Elaine May and Alan Arkin. (Courtesy of Julian Schlossberg via JTA)
February 19, 2023, 3:47 pm
Julian Schlossberg’s new memoir covers 6 decades working with Jewish showbiz royalty
‘Try Not to Hold It Against Me: A Producer’s Life’ tells how the 81-year-old producer worked and partied with celebs like Barbra Streisand, Mel Brooks and close friend Elaine May
By Stephen Silver
Costumes from productions that originated at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater on display at the Museum of Broadway. (New York Jewish Week via JTA)
December 19, 2022, 6:56 am
7 Jewish highlights from the new Museum of Broadway
In a three-story tribute to the Theater District located in its heart, the majority of featured musicals and plays bear the mark of the Tribe, from Tony Kushner to Stephen Sondheim
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Hedy Lamarr in the 1941 film 'Ziegfeld Girl.' (Courtesy Alexandra Dean)
March 26, 2022, 4:21 pm
Film museum to add exhibit on Hollywood’s historic Jews – but why were they omitted?
The ‘radically inclusive’ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announces the addition amid a larger conversation about Jewish marginalization in the industry
By Andrew Lapin
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
January 13, 2022, 7:24 pm
Golda Meir’s grandson defends casting of Helen Mirren as former Israeli PM
Shaul Rahabi tells Jewish Chronicle his late grandmother would have loved casting, and being Jewish ‘doesn’t matter at all,’ amid renewed ‘Jewface’ debate
By ToI Staff
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
January 6, 2022, 11:27 am
Casting of Helen Mirren as Israeli PM Golda Meir sparks ‘Jewface’ spat
Famed British actress Maureen Lipman says Jewishness of character is integral; others say actors should be allowed to act
By ToI Staff
Billy Wilder, at center, with Peter Lorre and other Central European refugees in Hollywood, circa mid-1930s. (Courtesy/ Deutsche Kinemathek)
December 25, 2021, 4:12 am
In LA, Austria honors Jews who fled WWII darkness to forge Hollywood’s Golden Age
Together with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and others, the Austrian consulate pays tribute to expat stars with a symposium and 6-week film series running through Jan. 31
By Sharon Rosen Leib
Sarah Silverman participates in a panel during the Hulu Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
October 5, 2021, 11:19 am
‘Jewface’: Sarah Silverman pans casting of non-Jews as Jews
The actress and comedian asks why, ‘when the importance of representation is seen as so essential… does ours constantly get breached?’
By Amy Spiro
British-Jewish actor Adam Godley, left, along with Simon Russell Beale, center, and Ben Miles, in 'The Lehman Trilogy,' at the National Theatre. (Mark Douet)
September 9, 2019, 11:53 pm
Drama erupts in UK as Jewish thespians claim they are cast out of roles
As edgy musical ‘Falsettos’ opens in London, debate known as ‘Jewface’ sees Britain’s minority groups unite to protest lack of representation in heavily Jew-centric productions
By Jenni Frazer
Melissa Rosenberg, left, with Krysten Ritter at the New York premiere of the second season of 'Jessica Jones,' March 7, 2018. (Matthew Eisman/Getty Images/via JTA)
April 1, 2018, 6:38 am
Creator of Netflix’s ‘Jessica Jones’ becoming a feminist icon in the #MeToo era
Melissa Rosenberg talks about enduring years of misogynistic treatment that most women in Hollywood experience at the hands of powerful industry men
By Curt Schleier
Josh Gad, left, and Chadwick Boseman in a scene from 'Marshall.' (Barry Wetcher/via JTA)
October 12, 2017, 9:17 pm
Josh Gad honors his Holocaust survivor grandparents with role in ‘Marshall’
In movie opening Friday, actor plays an attorney in a racist, anti-Semitic town who helps a black fellow lawyer — and eventual Supreme Court Justice — defend an innocent man
By Curt Schleier
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