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NBC and Greg Daniels, who is responsible for the successful U.S. adaptation of The Office, are making a bid to Americanize another BBC show: Friday Night Dinner. And guess what its about… Friday Night Dinner, which debuted on Channel 4 in February, centers on the Goodmans, a traditional but not strictly observant Jewish family, and chronicles their […]

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Adam Sandler’s birthday weekend turned out to be slightly less happy than he expected, after the film Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star, produced by Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions, completely tanked at the box office on its opening weekend. The movie, which tells the story of a man who finds out that his parents were porn stars […]

“There’s nothing so unusual about being a Jewish cowboy,” says Harold Stern, who should know–he’s one himself. Jewish cowboys have been the subject of songs, documentaries, and the album The Jewish Cowboy–a 1950s-era record which features 20-year-old Harold telling us about the fascinating life of running a Texas farm. The six-minute vinyl single was distributed as a promotion […]

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