Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd are officially husband and wife!
The Dancing With the Stars lovebirds said "I do" on Saturday at Oheka Castle, one of Long Island's most exclusive venues, Et confirms.
Watch: Maksim Chmerkovskiy & Peta Murgatroyd Gush Over Their 'Happy' First Date Night Since Son's Birth
Murgatroyd looked every bit the blushing bride, rocking not one but two stunning custom Karen Sabag Couture dresses on her special day. Chmerkovskiy's cousin, fellow DWTS troupe dancer Nicole Volynets, helped the Auckland, New Zealand, native plan out and style all the details for her and Chmerkovskiy's ceremony.
The couple's 5-month-old son, Shai, served as "Prince of Honor" for the evening, entertaining their family, friends and celebrity guests, like fellow DWTS superstars and contestants Keo Motsepe, Alan Bersten, Candace Cameron Bure and Nyle Dimarco. Val Chmerkovskiy, Sharna Burgess, Rumer Willis and Tony Dovolani were also in attendance, standing right next to the couple and the rest of their bridal...
The Dancing With the Stars lovebirds said "I do" on Saturday at Oheka Castle, one of Long Island's most exclusive venues, Et confirms.
Watch: Maksim Chmerkovskiy & Peta Murgatroyd Gush Over Their 'Happy' First Date Night Since Son's Birth
Murgatroyd looked every bit the blushing bride, rocking not one but two stunning custom Karen Sabag Couture dresses on her special day. Chmerkovskiy's cousin, fellow DWTS troupe dancer Nicole Volynets, helped the Auckland, New Zealand, native plan out and style all the details for her and Chmerkovskiy's ceremony.
The couple's 5-month-old son, Shai, served as "Prince of Honor" for the evening, entertaining their family, friends and celebrity guests, like fellow DWTS superstars and contestants Keo Motsepe, Alan Bersten, Candace Cameron Bure and Nyle Dimarco. Val Chmerkovskiy, Sharna Burgess, Rumer Willis and Tony Dovolani were also in attendance, standing right next to the couple and the rest of their bridal...
- 7/9/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Maks Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd are getting ready for their big summer wedding.
A source tells Et the happy couple will be getting married next month and have recruited their son, 5-month-old Shai, to be their ring bearer.
Exclusive: Maks Chmerkovskiy Gushes Over Peta Murgatroyd's 'Incredible Transformation' & First Mother's
“Maks and Peta’s wedding will be something to remember! It will be a huge wedding that will span the course of a three day weekend,” the source revealed.
The wedding will take place on Saturday, July 8, at Oheka Castle, one of Long Island’s most exclusive venues. Guests will be treated to a Shabbat dinner the night before and a Sunday brunch the day after the wedding.
The source also explained that Peta is a bit nervous that Shai might cry through most of the ceremony, but is excited that he’ll be part of the festivities on such a special day.
Maks’cousin...
A source tells Et the happy couple will be getting married next month and have recruited their son, 5-month-old Shai, to be their ring bearer.
Exclusive: Maks Chmerkovskiy Gushes Over Peta Murgatroyd's 'Incredible Transformation' & First Mother's
“Maks and Peta’s wedding will be something to remember! It will be a huge wedding that will span the course of a three day weekend,” the source revealed.
The wedding will take place on Saturday, July 8, at Oheka Castle, one of Long Island’s most exclusive venues. Guests will be treated to a Shabbat dinner the night before and a Sunday brunch the day after the wedding.
The source also explained that Peta is a bit nervous that Shai might cry through most of the ceremony, but is excited that he’ll be part of the festivities on such a special day.
Maks’cousin...
- 6/23/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Monica Patel and boyfriend Imad Khalil have an almighty row on Married to Medicine Houston this week — about religion. To make things worse, the couple have it out in front of other guests at a Shabbat dinner hosted by socialite Cindi Rose. The argument centers around Monica saying she’s a “free-spirited liberal-thinking person”, with Imad disagreeing. He says: “I can’t believe you’re saying that. You’re not. You’re far from that.” He then says to the other guests: “Ask her, if we have a kid, what way it is going to be raised?” The argument steps up a gear as he...read more...
- 12/2/2016
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
Shabbat dinner may not be the first thing to spring to mind when Burning Man is mentioned, but it was one of the highlights during the father-son bonding time experienced by Jeffrey and David Katzenberg at this year's fest. The two made the trek to Black Rock City, along with more than 70,000 other "Burners," as the annual counterculture festival celebrated a milestone 30th year from Aug. 28 to Sept. 5. It was the second year in a row that the Katzenbergs attended Burning Man together; David has been three times in total. Their Shabbat dinner took
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- 9/13/2016
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This year we are seeing many films from Mena, that is an acronym for the Middle East and North Africa. More commonly called “Arab” cinema, (though the term is inaccurate because several countries in the region are not actually “Arab”) the films of this region are winning many awards and garnering much interest worldwide.
More than 10 Arab films participated in the Berlinale’s Forum and Forum Expanded programs this year, in addition to the ones which participated in the Official Competition (“Inhebek Hedi”/ “Hedi” from Tunisia and “A Dragon Arrives!” by Mani Haghighi from Iran). This makes an especially remarkable year for Arab cinema’s presence in Berlin.
The Forum focus on Arab cinema, represented with films from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia highlights mostly young directors whose works explore both the past and present of their homelands.
The films included: “A Magical Substance Flows into Me” by artist Jumana Manna (Palestine), “Akher ayam el madina”/ “In the Last Days of the City” (Egypt) by Tamer El Said (international sales by Still Moving), documentary “Makhdoumin”/ “A Maid for Each” (Lebanon) by Maher Abi Samra (Isa: Docs & Film), “Barakah yoqabil Barakah”/ “Barakah Meets Barakah” (Saudi Arabia) by Mahmoud Sabbagh and Manazil (Isa: Mpm), “Bela abwab”/ “Houses without Doors” by Syrian-Armenian director Avo Kaprealian. Of course the 46th Berlinale Forum also screens films from European, Latin American and Asian directors.
The Tunisian film in Competition “Inhebek Hedi”/ “Hedi” by Mohamed Ben Attia, won the Best First Feature Award and its leading man, Majd Mastoura, received the prestigious Silver Bear for Best Actor for his role as Hedi. Attia’s debut feature film is a thoughtful love story about identity and independence in Tunisian society. It is being sold internationally by Luxbox.
Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel won the Silver Bear Jury Prize for Short Film for “ A Man Returned”, a 30-minute portrayal of a young refugee struggling to make a life for himself in Lebanon’s Ain El-Helweh camp, being sold internationally by 3.14 Collectif. He previously made an award-winning documentary about his own experience as a refugee. The short film was also selected as the Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards.
The Ecumenical Jury awarded the Forum Prize to Saudi filmmaker Mahmoud Sabbagh for his well-received romantic comedy “Barakah Yoqabil Barakah”/ “Barakah Meets Barakah”, a social commentary on the lives of young people in Saudi Arabia. It shared the prize with Danish production “Les Sauteurs”/ “Those Who Jump” – a film that also highlights the plight of Europe-bound refugees.
Egyptian filmmaker Tamer El-Said’s feature film “Akher Ayam El-Madina”/ “In the Last Days of the City” won the Caligari Film Prize. The film looks at a young filmmaker’s struggle to complete a film about Cairo. It was the only Egyptian film to participate in the 2016 Berlinale Forum.
Lebanese filmmaker Maher Abi Samra’s documentary “Makhdoumin”/ “A Maid for Each”, a look at the legal system that controls the lives of Lebanon’s foreign domestic workers, won the Peace Film Prize.
“Zinzana”/ “Rattle the Cage” director, Majid al Ansari, from the Arab Emirates, was honored with Variety’s Mid-East Filmmaker of the Year Award at the Berlinale. The film is the first genre movie of its kind produced in the UAE. It was financed and produced by Abu Dhabi’s ImageNation. It is repped for Us by Cinetic and international sales are by Im Global.
Projects “Mawlana”, based on Ibrahim Issa’s best-selling novel and shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize and director’s Mohamed Yassein’s “Wedding Song” based on Naguib Mahfouz’s novel, the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature were being promoted at the Arab Cinema Center at the Market. Reflecting a decadent Egypt from the 1970s, “Wedding Song” is one of the largest TV productions in the Arab World in 2016.
“Theeb”, a Jordanian Epic about Bedouins, is the Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It played in Venice. International sales agent Fortissimo has licensed it to Film Movement for U.S., ABC for Benelux, New Wave for U.K., As Fidalgo for Norway, Jiff for Australia, trigon-film for Switzerland. Mad Solutions is handling the Middle East. “Ave Maria” a 14-minute Palestine satirical short is the Academy Award nomination for Best Short Fiction and is being sold internationally by Ouat Media. “ The Idol” (Palestine) played Tiff 2015 and other top fests and has sold widely throughout the world through Canada-based international sales agent Seville. Not since Elia Suleiman won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for “Divine Intervention” has a Palestinian film director made as much of an impact as “The Idol” director Hany Abu-Assad whose “Paradise Now” and “Omar” both went to the Academy Awards.
Kudos for much of the success of Arab cinema go to Mad Solutions, the Cairo, Abu Dhabi and New York based marketing and distribution company for its marketing and social media strategies as well as its release of “Theeb”, “Zinzana” and “Ave Maria”. It also helped create the Arab Cinema Center which was launched last year at the Berlinale and Efm.
In all, 20 Mena films played in the Festival and Market this year.
And what of that other small country in the region called Israel (and/ or Palestine) which is not included in the term Mena? While Israeli films that showed in Berlin received international praise, they will never show in any of the Arab countries and are sometimes boycotted by international film festivals who succumb to censorship tactics.
Most of the larger Israeli features go to Cannes, Venice and Toronto; “Afterthought” went to Cannes, “Mountain” to Venice, “Barash” to San Sebastian”, “Wedding Doll” to London and “A.K.A. Nadia” to Talinn Black Nights Film Festival. In Berlin many are screened as German Premieres.
What Israeli films have won acclaim lately? Is it possible that our hero, Katriel Schory, head of the Israel Film Fund, whose stand for true art has earned him Israeli government censure at home (A prophet is never honored in his own land) and fame abroad with new countries striving to create national cinema, is being eclipsed by the growth of “Arab” cinema?
“Sandstorm” directed by Elite Zexer (international sales by Beta) made its way to Panorama from its world premiere in Sundance where it won the Best Actress Award for Palestinian actress Lamis Ammar’s portrayal of a young Bedouin woman forced to choose between modern freedom or traditional societal strictures within an arranged marriage.
Panorama also screened “Junction 48” (international sales by The Match Factory) which received international praise and audience acclaim. The Israeli-Palestinian hip-hop movie by Israeli-American filmmaker, Udi Aloni, was supported by the Israel-based Rabinovich Foundation. The story is about Kareem who lives in a mixed Jewish-Arab crime-ridden ghetto outside Tel Aviv. He deals drugs and lives dangerously until he discovers hip-hop and decides to express his life as a Palestinian youth along with young singer Manar. Palestinian and Israeli musicians drive this music movie and for Aloni, just seeing the film made, and then shown at the Berlin Film Festival proves its success.
“Suddenly a group of people just choose to make a film and the film is extremely professional. It’s very important that this bi-national energy can create high quality stuff, the high quality is almost the symbol of the resistance. We should not even have to tell the story about the issue. The fact that we could create it is amazing,” Aloni told Euronews.
Thirty-seven-year-old Arab-Israeli rapper Tamer Nafar plays the lead role, and has known the 56-year-old Aloni for some time. “We have been on the same demonstrations, in the parties since 2000, so we live in each other’s world. He has been to my concerts many times, he directed a video clip, I was in his movies as a producer a few times. It’s not about an old generation and new generation, it’s just about creating the right generation,” he said. “He has that gift of being a good story teller and director but he gives us the stage, no, he doesn’t give us a stage, we are building a stage together… he has his own perspective but we are all on the same level,” said actress Samar Qupty. The struggle for equal rights for Palestinians or Arab Israelis inside Israel is at its crux.
Panorama Documents screened “Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?” directed by Tomer Haymann and Barak Heymann co-directed by Alexander Bodin Saphir and being sold by Austria’s Autlook. Forum showed “ Inertia” by Idan Haguel being sold by Oration Films’ Timothy O’Brian of the U.S., and “Between Fences” by Avi Mograbi, being sold by Docs & Film’s Daniela Elstner of France. Culinary Cinema showed “Café Nagler” by Mor Kaplansky and Yariv Barel is being sold internationally by Go2Films.
Teddy 30 (the retrospective of Teddy Award winners over the past 30 years) honored Dan Wolman’s 1979 film “Hide and Seek”/ “Machboim”. Berlinale Shorts screened Rotem Murat’s “Winds Junction” from Sapir College which also holds international rights; Generation 14 Plus screened “Mushkie” by Aleeza Chanowitz from the Jerusalem San Spiegel Film School, being sold by Cinephil. Seven other films were sold in the market by various sales agents.
One of the very special events I attended at the Berlinale this year was the Shabbat Dinner, held the first Friday in the Festival and hosted by Nicola Galliner, Founder and Force of the Berlin Jewish Film Festival. There was a table full of Jews: the new Director of the Jerusalem Film Festival, Noa Regev, PhD; Jay Rosenblatt, Program Director of San Francisco’sJewish Film Institute and its former Director, Peter Stein, now the Senior Programmer of Frameline, San Francisco’s Lgbtq Film Festival; Judy Ironside, the Founder and President of UK Jewish Film and of the sixth edition of the Geneva and Zurich Jewish Film Festivals, the new young director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Ariana Cohen-Halberstam who recently moved from the New York Jcc to Boston, the prolific Israeli director, filmmaker Dan Wolman whose new film will soon be out and whose 1979 film “Hide and Seek”/ “Machboim” was part of the Teddy 30th Anniversary Retrospective held by the Berlinale Panorama.
Talk was about films, about politics including gender politics, about our concerns, (we Jews are better worriers than warriors) and just plain gossip.
Now if my readers will excuse my interjecting myself into this article:
It is my opinion that the region of the world called the Middle East, and the three major monotheistic religions of the world whose origin is there had better learn to do more than merely co-exist peacefully if we are to see peaceful and fruitful consequences which will set the world back upon its proper axis.
Art breaks down borders; it is subversive rather than observant of the exigencies of ever changing governments. It creates new perspectives and breaks down old ways of seeing. What I call “Cinema” is Art. Other movies may simply entertain and not aspire to more or they may propagate dogmas, but Art serves no master; it is not tethered; it is freedom of expression which should be honored with freedom to travel.
More than 10 Arab films participated in the Berlinale’s Forum and Forum Expanded programs this year, in addition to the ones which participated in the Official Competition (“Inhebek Hedi”/ “Hedi” from Tunisia and “A Dragon Arrives!” by Mani Haghighi from Iran). This makes an especially remarkable year for Arab cinema’s presence in Berlin.
The Forum focus on Arab cinema, represented with films from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia highlights mostly young directors whose works explore both the past and present of their homelands.
The films included: “A Magical Substance Flows into Me” by artist Jumana Manna (Palestine), “Akher ayam el madina”/ “In the Last Days of the City” (Egypt) by Tamer El Said (international sales by Still Moving), documentary “Makhdoumin”/ “A Maid for Each” (Lebanon) by Maher Abi Samra (Isa: Docs & Film), “Barakah yoqabil Barakah”/ “Barakah Meets Barakah” (Saudi Arabia) by Mahmoud Sabbagh and Manazil (Isa: Mpm), “Bela abwab”/ “Houses without Doors” by Syrian-Armenian director Avo Kaprealian. Of course the 46th Berlinale Forum also screens films from European, Latin American and Asian directors.
The Tunisian film in Competition “Inhebek Hedi”/ “Hedi” by Mohamed Ben Attia, won the Best First Feature Award and its leading man, Majd Mastoura, received the prestigious Silver Bear for Best Actor for his role as Hedi. Attia’s debut feature film is a thoughtful love story about identity and independence in Tunisian society. It is being sold internationally by Luxbox.
Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel won the Silver Bear Jury Prize for Short Film for “ A Man Returned”, a 30-minute portrayal of a young refugee struggling to make a life for himself in Lebanon’s Ain El-Helweh camp, being sold internationally by 3.14 Collectif. He previously made an award-winning documentary about his own experience as a refugee. The short film was also selected as the Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards.
The Ecumenical Jury awarded the Forum Prize to Saudi filmmaker Mahmoud Sabbagh for his well-received romantic comedy “Barakah Yoqabil Barakah”/ “Barakah Meets Barakah”, a social commentary on the lives of young people in Saudi Arabia. It shared the prize with Danish production “Les Sauteurs”/ “Those Who Jump” – a film that also highlights the plight of Europe-bound refugees.
Egyptian filmmaker Tamer El-Said’s feature film “Akher Ayam El-Madina”/ “In the Last Days of the City” won the Caligari Film Prize. The film looks at a young filmmaker’s struggle to complete a film about Cairo. It was the only Egyptian film to participate in the 2016 Berlinale Forum.
Lebanese filmmaker Maher Abi Samra’s documentary “Makhdoumin”/ “A Maid for Each”, a look at the legal system that controls the lives of Lebanon’s foreign domestic workers, won the Peace Film Prize.
“Zinzana”/ “Rattle the Cage” director, Majid al Ansari, from the Arab Emirates, was honored with Variety’s Mid-East Filmmaker of the Year Award at the Berlinale. The film is the first genre movie of its kind produced in the UAE. It was financed and produced by Abu Dhabi’s ImageNation. It is repped for Us by Cinetic and international sales are by Im Global.
Projects “Mawlana”, based on Ibrahim Issa’s best-selling novel and shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize and director’s Mohamed Yassein’s “Wedding Song” based on Naguib Mahfouz’s novel, the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature were being promoted at the Arab Cinema Center at the Market. Reflecting a decadent Egypt from the 1970s, “Wedding Song” is one of the largest TV productions in the Arab World in 2016.
“Theeb”, a Jordanian Epic about Bedouins, is the Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It played in Venice. International sales agent Fortissimo has licensed it to Film Movement for U.S., ABC for Benelux, New Wave for U.K., As Fidalgo for Norway, Jiff for Australia, trigon-film for Switzerland. Mad Solutions is handling the Middle East. “Ave Maria” a 14-minute Palestine satirical short is the Academy Award nomination for Best Short Fiction and is being sold internationally by Ouat Media. “ The Idol” (Palestine) played Tiff 2015 and other top fests and has sold widely throughout the world through Canada-based international sales agent Seville. Not since Elia Suleiman won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for “Divine Intervention” has a Palestinian film director made as much of an impact as “The Idol” director Hany Abu-Assad whose “Paradise Now” and “Omar” both went to the Academy Awards.
Kudos for much of the success of Arab cinema go to Mad Solutions, the Cairo, Abu Dhabi and New York based marketing and distribution company for its marketing and social media strategies as well as its release of “Theeb”, “Zinzana” and “Ave Maria”. It also helped create the Arab Cinema Center which was launched last year at the Berlinale and Efm.
In all, 20 Mena films played in the Festival and Market this year.
And what of that other small country in the region called Israel (and/ or Palestine) which is not included in the term Mena? While Israeli films that showed in Berlin received international praise, they will never show in any of the Arab countries and are sometimes boycotted by international film festivals who succumb to censorship tactics.
Most of the larger Israeli features go to Cannes, Venice and Toronto; “Afterthought” went to Cannes, “Mountain” to Venice, “Barash” to San Sebastian”, “Wedding Doll” to London and “A.K.A. Nadia” to Talinn Black Nights Film Festival. In Berlin many are screened as German Premieres.
What Israeli films have won acclaim lately? Is it possible that our hero, Katriel Schory, head of the Israel Film Fund, whose stand for true art has earned him Israeli government censure at home (A prophet is never honored in his own land) and fame abroad with new countries striving to create national cinema, is being eclipsed by the growth of “Arab” cinema?
“Sandstorm” directed by Elite Zexer (international sales by Beta) made its way to Panorama from its world premiere in Sundance where it won the Best Actress Award for Palestinian actress Lamis Ammar’s portrayal of a young Bedouin woman forced to choose between modern freedom or traditional societal strictures within an arranged marriage.
Panorama also screened “Junction 48” (international sales by The Match Factory) which received international praise and audience acclaim. The Israeli-Palestinian hip-hop movie by Israeli-American filmmaker, Udi Aloni, was supported by the Israel-based Rabinovich Foundation. The story is about Kareem who lives in a mixed Jewish-Arab crime-ridden ghetto outside Tel Aviv. He deals drugs and lives dangerously until he discovers hip-hop and decides to express his life as a Palestinian youth along with young singer Manar. Palestinian and Israeli musicians drive this music movie and for Aloni, just seeing the film made, and then shown at the Berlin Film Festival proves its success.
“Suddenly a group of people just choose to make a film and the film is extremely professional. It’s very important that this bi-national energy can create high quality stuff, the high quality is almost the symbol of the resistance. We should not even have to tell the story about the issue. The fact that we could create it is amazing,” Aloni told Euronews.
Thirty-seven-year-old Arab-Israeli rapper Tamer Nafar plays the lead role, and has known the 56-year-old Aloni for some time. “We have been on the same demonstrations, in the parties since 2000, so we live in each other’s world. He has been to my concerts many times, he directed a video clip, I was in his movies as a producer a few times. It’s not about an old generation and new generation, it’s just about creating the right generation,” he said. “He has that gift of being a good story teller and director but he gives us the stage, no, he doesn’t give us a stage, we are building a stage together… he has his own perspective but we are all on the same level,” said actress Samar Qupty. The struggle for equal rights for Palestinians or Arab Israelis inside Israel is at its crux.
Panorama Documents screened “Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?” directed by Tomer Haymann and Barak Heymann co-directed by Alexander Bodin Saphir and being sold by Austria’s Autlook. Forum showed “ Inertia” by Idan Haguel being sold by Oration Films’ Timothy O’Brian of the U.S., and “Between Fences” by Avi Mograbi, being sold by Docs & Film’s Daniela Elstner of France. Culinary Cinema showed “Café Nagler” by Mor Kaplansky and Yariv Barel is being sold internationally by Go2Films.
Teddy 30 (the retrospective of Teddy Award winners over the past 30 years) honored Dan Wolman’s 1979 film “Hide and Seek”/ “Machboim”. Berlinale Shorts screened Rotem Murat’s “Winds Junction” from Sapir College which also holds international rights; Generation 14 Plus screened “Mushkie” by Aleeza Chanowitz from the Jerusalem San Spiegel Film School, being sold by Cinephil. Seven other films were sold in the market by various sales agents.
One of the very special events I attended at the Berlinale this year was the Shabbat Dinner, held the first Friday in the Festival and hosted by Nicola Galliner, Founder and Force of the Berlin Jewish Film Festival. There was a table full of Jews: the new Director of the Jerusalem Film Festival, Noa Regev, PhD; Jay Rosenblatt, Program Director of San Francisco’sJewish Film Institute and its former Director, Peter Stein, now the Senior Programmer of Frameline, San Francisco’s Lgbtq Film Festival; Judy Ironside, the Founder and President of UK Jewish Film and of the sixth edition of the Geneva and Zurich Jewish Film Festivals, the new young director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Ariana Cohen-Halberstam who recently moved from the New York Jcc to Boston, the prolific Israeli director, filmmaker Dan Wolman whose new film will soon be out and whose 1979 film “Hide and Seek”/ “Machboim” was part of the Teddy 30th Anniversary Retrospective held by the Berlinale Panorama.
Talk was about films, about politics including gender politics, about our concerns, (we Jews are better worriers than warriors) and just plain gossip.
Now if my readers will excuse my interjecting myself into this article:
It is my opinion that the region of the world called the Middle East, and the three major monotheistic religions of the world whose origin is there had better learn to do more than merely co-exist peacefully if we are to see peaceful and fruitful consequences which will set the world back upon its proper axis.
Art breaks down borders; it is subversive rather than observant of the exigencies of ever changing governments. It creates new perspectives and breaks down old ways of seeing. What I call “Cinema” is Art. Other movies may simply entertain and not aspire to more or they may propagate dogmas, but Art serves no master; it is not tethered; it is freedom of expression which should be honored with freedom to travel.
- 3/6/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Former”Queen of Porn” Jenna Jameson is converting to Judaism and cameras will be there to capture every Shabbat dinner. Jameson and her Israeli fiancee, diamond dealer Lior Bitton, will allow cameras to follow them in preparation for their wedding next year, according to the Times of Israel.. Jameson, who was born Catholic, will convert before the ceremony. Bitton told the paper that he did not initially let his mother know of Jameson’s past career. “Look, I didn’t come to my mom and say, ‘I’m dating the biggest porn star in the world.’ I mean, there are porn stars,...
- 10/29/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Jenna Jameson is joining the tribe! The semi-retired porn star has announced via social media that she's converting to Judaism and has already gotten a head start on many of the religion's traditions. The 41-year-old actress appears to embracing the religion since becoming engaged to her Israeli fiancé Lior Bitton—a diamond broker who is based in Los Angeles. Jameson has been busy posting a slew of photos of Instagram sharing her journey, including one of her cooking her very first Shabbat dinner! Which was, in case you're curious, Chilean sea bass chraimeh, potato pancakes, Israeli salad and even a homemade challah bread. Nicely done! And how did it turn out? "Made...
- 6/11/2015
- E! Online
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Chai Center's "Cannes Shabbat" will take place during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival and aims to be the largest to date as a sign of protest towards the numerous anti-semitic incidents during the past year.
Here is the full message from Rabbi Mendel Schwartz:
The Anti-Defamation League (Adl) Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, counted a total of 912 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. during the 2014 calendar year. This represents a 21 percent increase from the 751 incidents reported during the same period in 2013. "While the overall number of anti-Semitic incidents remains lower than we have seen historically, the fact remains that 2014 was a particularly violent year for Jews both overseas and in the United States," said Abraham H. Foxman, Adl National Director.
"While the overall number of anti-Semitic incidents remains lower than we have seen historically, the fact remains that 2014 was a particularly violent year for Jews both overseas and in the United States," said Abraham H. Foxman, Adl National Director.
In light of the above, I make a special appeal to please forward the flyer below to all your friends going to the festival. The Chai Center would like the 10th annual "Cannes Shabbat" to be the biggest and greatest event of all. No darkness of anti-semitism, especially in Europe, will hamper the efforts of Jewish ppl attending a public Shabbat dinner on the French Riviera. On the contrary, we can only fight this darkness with even greater light.
You can RSVP to the event Here!
Here is the official flyer...
Here is the full message from Rabbi Mendel Schwartz:
The Anti-Defamation League (Adl) Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, counted a total of 912 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. during the 2014 calendar year. This represents a 21 percent increase from the 751 incidents reported during the same period in 2013. "While the overall number of anti-Semitic incidents remains lower than we have seen historically, the fact remains that 2014 was a particularly violent year for Jews both overseas and in the United States," said Abraham H. Foxman, Adl National Director.
"While the overall number of anti-Semitic incidents remains lower than we have seen historically, the fact remains that 2014 was a particularly violent year for Jews both overseas and in the United States," said Abraham H. Foxman, Adl National Director.
In light of the above, I make a special appeal to please forward the flyer below to all your friends going to the festival. The Chai Center would like the 10th annual "Cannes Shabbat" to be the biggest and greatest event of all. No darkness of anti-semitism, especially in Europe, will hamper the efforts of Jewish ppl attending a public Shabbat dinner on the French Riviera. On the contrary, we can only fight this darkness with even greater light.
You can RSVP to the event Here!
Here is the official flyer...
- 4/16/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
As part of the release of his short film, "Lily in the Grinder," filmmaker Michael Morgenstern ("Shabbat Dinner") has shared this before-and-after comparison between the raw camera video and the finished product. Written and directed by Morgenstern, the film has screened at various film festivals and is nominated for an HBO Greenie Award. Set to an original string quarter score, "Lily in the Grinder" tells the story of Ryan's search for meaning in his bare New York City existence. Read More: 5 Budget-Friendly 50mm Lenses for the Cinema Look On his blog, Morgenstern shared the stages the film went through to get the polished look, which you can read below. You can watch the full film here. 1. Reframing: During shooting, cinematographer Judy Phu (one of the most talented people I’ve ever worked with) and I developed a language around composition in the video. So much of the meaning exists in the comparison between frames,...
- 4/1/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Mindy Lahiri — a woman who clearly’s watched a lot of Sex and the City — apparently hasn’t watched enough of Carrie Bradshaw, because it took her nearly till the end of last night’s episode to realize Danny is totally in love with her. Yes, that’s after the two of them went apartment shopping together, and after Danny had a totally-crazy-stick-with-me-here-what-if-you-just-moved-into-my-building-into-the-apartment-next-door-to-mine-idea. This basically happened with Carrie and Aiden! He bought the apartment next door and it did not work out.
I know the two situations aren’t totally parallel, but I’m a little rom-com crazy right now.
I know the two situations aren’t totally parallel, but I’m a little rom-com crazy right now.
- 4/30/2014
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
“When I need to take the Pill/ I look upon the windowsill…”
Mindy Lahiri and her cohorts dove headfirst last night into what is (somehow?) one of the big political debates of 2014: Birth control access! Dr. Lahiri was counseling an 18-year-old who wanted a prescription for the Pill without telling her overprotective detective father (Tim Daly), who proceeded to find out anyway, and then storm into Mindy’s office to demand answers. “You just watch yourself, you sex-crazed quack. I could get you on the no-fly list like that,” Detective Lang threatened.
Mindy, already on a no-fly list and...
Mindy Lahiri and her cohorts dove headfirst last night into what is (somehow?) one of the big political debates of 2014: Birth control access! Dr. Lahiri was counseling an 18-year-old who wanted a prescription for the Pill without telling her overprotective detective father (Tim Daly), who proceeded to find out anyway, and then storm into Mindy’s office to demand answers. “You just watch yourself, you sex-crazed quack. I could get you on the no-fly list like that,” Detective Lang threatened.
Mindy, already on a no-fly list and...
- 4/23/2014
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
The 28-year-old Girls free spirit allowed photographer Kristina Loggia to follow her for a day around her Brooklyn home, with side trips to the local library and a neighborhood diner. Click through the gallery ahead for photos, plus Kirke's thoughts on Mommy groups, naked groping, and Shabbat dinner. (Best read with lilting British accent.)*This article appeared in the March 10, 2014 issue of New York Magazine.
- 3/14/2014
- Vulture
Birthday shoutouts go to Aj Mclean (above), who is 36, Dave Matthews is 47, Crystal Gayle is 63, and Joan Baez is 73.
The faboo Camryn Manheim, who isn’t on my TV nearly enough, will co-star opposite Halle Berry on the CBS summer scifi series Extant.
EW has a pic from X-Men: Days Of Future past, featuring Wolvie and a 70′s era Beast in Brady Bunch clothes.
Lance Bass: The First Thing My Mom Did When She Learned I Was Gay … And The ‘Miracle’ That Occurred After.
Here’s the extended trailer for Lifetime’s Flowers In The Attic. Thankfully, I don’t see any powdered doughnuts. And Lifetime has just announced that they’re already planning the sequel Petals On The Wind. I read the first four books in the series when I was a kid, and I remember silently weeping in study hall when I got to the end of #4 Seeds Of Yesterday.
The faboo Camryn Manheim, who isn’t on my TV nearly enough, will co-star opposite Halle Berry on the CBS summer scifi series Extant.
EW has a pic from X-Men: Days Of Future past, featuring Wolvie and a 70′s era Beast in Brady Bunch clothes.
Lance Bass: The First Thing My Mom Did When She Learned I Was Gay … And The ‘Miracle’ That Occurred After.
Here’s the extended trailer for Lifetime’s Flowers In The Attic. Thankfully, I don’t see any powdered doughnuts. And Lifetime has just announced that they’re already planning the sequel Petals On The Wind. I read the first four books in the series when I was a kid, and I remember silently weeping in study hall when I got to the end of #4 Seeds Of Yesterday.
- 1/9/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
New York — A suburban New York congressman who represents the area where Bravo films its series "Princesses: Long Island" says the show is "the most objectionable thing I've ever seen on television" and promotes stereotyping of Jews.
The network should show a disclaimer before every episode to say there's nothing real about the nonfiction show, said Rep. Steve Israel, a New York Democrat.
Bravo said Friday the new series has averaged just over 1 million viewers over three airings on Sunday nights, which is considered a very successful start. "Princesses: Long Island" is reminiscent of MTV's "Jersey Shore" in focusing on a small subculture, in this case six young, unmarried women who are generally of comfortable means with plenty of idle time.
One of the women, Ashlee White, is nearly 30 and lives at home where her parents cook her food and do her laundry. She's looking for Mr. Right, but has high standards.
The network should show a disclaimer before every episode to say there's nothing real about the nonfiction show, said Rep. Steve Israel, a New York Democrat.
Bravo said Friday the new series has averaged just over 1 million viewers over three airings on Sunday nights, which is considered a very successful start. "Princesses: Long Island" is reminiscent of MTV's "Jersey Shore" in focusing on a small subculture, in this case six young, unmarried women who are generally of comfortable means with plenty of idle time.
One of the women, Ashlee White, is nearly 30 and lives at home where her parents cook her food and do her laundry. She's looking for Mr. Right, but has high standards.
- 6/22/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
On the latest episode of "Princesses: Long Island," the girls all wound up in a house together in the Hamptons and then a bunch of crazy drama happened. Go figure. It went down while they were having Shabbat dinner.
To make it better -- worse? -- this was high school drama coming back to the forefront more than ten years later. Apparently, Erica (who was once known as the hottest girl in Long Island) stole Casey's boyfriend and Casey's still not over it. Again, this happened more than ten years ago.
Nevertheless, Casey lashed out at Erika when the latter started talking about spirituality and being a good person. It certainly seemed to come out of left field, but grudges from so long ago generally do.
Erica was so upset that she left to talk to her boyfriend on the phone, while Casey kept complaining inside. All of this, as the Jewish Journal pointed out,...
To make it better -- worse? -- this was high school drama coming back to the forefront more than ten years later. Apparently, Erica (who was once known as the hottest girl in Long Island) stole Casey's boyfriend and Casey's still not over it. Again, this happened more than ten years ago.
Nevertheless, Casey lashed out at Erika when the latter started talking about spirituality and being a good person. It certainly seemed to come out of left field, but grudges from so long ago generally do.
Erica was so upset that she left to talk to her boyfriend on the phone, while Casey kept complaining inside. All of this, as the Jewish Journal pointed out,...
- 6/10/2013
- by Jason Hughes
- Huffington Post
Gibbs is about to kill someone; and the rest of his team has resigned. Perhaps this wasn't as dramatic a cliffhanger as the end of NCIS Season 9, but it still rates as fascinating. And at least Ducky isn't out on a beach somewhere dying, so there's that.
Dod Investigator Parsons isn't through with Gibbs yet either. And we have to wait until the fall to see how it all goes down. Looks like the writers have done a brilliant job at keeping us on the hook.
That said, it's time to take a look back at NCIS Season 10. Read on for more in this TV Fanatic Report Card...
Best episode: "Shiva" set the bar for the rest of the season. In it, we got to see a heartbroken and vengeful Ziva, and a strong and very silent and wise Tony. His serious behavior was such a departure from the norm...
Dod Investigator Parsons isn't through with Gibbs yet either. And we have to wait until the fall to see how it all goes down. Looks like the writers have done a brilliant job at keeping us on the hook.
That said, it's time to take a look back at NCIS Season 10. Read on for more in this TV Fanatic Report Card...
Best episode: "Shiva" set the bar for the rest of the season. In it, we got to see a heartbroken and vengeful Ziva, and a strong and very silent and wise Tony. His serious behavior was such a departure from the norm...
- 5/30/2013
- by wolfshades@me.com (Douglas Wolfe)
- TVfanatic
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