Among the crop of victors at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards were a noteworthy bunch of Jewish Hollywood types. Best Screenplay, Motion Picture went to Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel) for “Her.” Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie is Michael Douglas, who played Liberace in “Behind the Candelabra.” Possibly the most controversial of the bunch… More ▸
While it’s unclear how Woody Allen felt about receiving the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award at last night’s Golden Globes (the Jewish film legend skipped the show), the Internet knows exactly where Mia Farrow and the ex-couple’s son, Ronan Farrow, stand. “Nite all,” Ms. Farrow tweeted before Diane Keaton appeared to accept the award… More ▸
Check it out people: The latest trailer for John Turturro’s film “Fading Gigolo,” in which he plays a newly-minted male prostitute who gets farmed out by Woody Allen. Besides Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara playing ladies looking for a manage a trois, there’s also Vanessa Paradis as a lonely Hasidic woman and Liev Schreiber as… More ▸
Halloween is just a few days away, which means this past weekend was packed with parties, which means swarms of costumed celebs, which means an onslaught of awesome photos. How, you must be wondering, will you ever begin to process the alternately hilarious, ironic, revealing, super creative, or boring get-ups worn by your favorite (Jewish)… More ▸
Woody Allen told an Israeli TV station that “many people that disguise their negative feelings toward Jews, disguise it as anti-Israel criticism.” More ▸
Mia Farrow has revealed in a recent Vanity Fair piece that her son Ronan, long assumed to be the lone biological offspring of Farrow and Woody Allen, might really be the child of Frank Sinatra. No DNA tests prove this, but when you juxtapose the right photos it seems entirely unlikely. While one might think it would… More ▸
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has chosen Woody Allen to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards. The honor is given every year to someone who has “made an incredible impact on the world of entertainment,” and Allen, 77, surely fits the bill. The prolific actor/writer/director has churned out over 45… More ▸
Curious how your favorite Jewish celebs spent the new year? JTA’s 6NoBacon blog has a roundup. More ▸
It’s hard to decide what seems more unlikely: Woody Allen playing a pimp, or Woody Allen starring in someone else’s film. Believe it or not, in “Fading Gigolo,” the legendary Jewish director does both. John Turturro wrote and directed the film, in which Allen plays a bookseller who picks up some work pimping out Turturro’s… More ▸
It’s no “Wolverine” or anything, but Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” is one of the biggest hits of the summer so far–relatively speaking. According to the Los Angeles Times the movie brought in $612,767 this weekend, which might sound modest for a summer flick, but keep in mind it was only screened in six venues. At $102,128 per… More ▸
