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    <dc:date>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:16:11 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>The Jewish Film Festival and This Day of Beauty</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Aside from the obvious news of the day, the other great news, the launch of the Endeavor (now postponed) has the regal splendor of Representative Gabrielle Gifford's recovery. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:16:11 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Purim and “Miral”</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Much has been made of this Julian Schnabel movie. The hue and cry has been heard internationally from leading Jewish and Israeli groups. Although I have not seen this movie, it has occurred to me in reading the Purim story that it feels like a good time for us Jews in show business, who care, to think about the Esther story in terms of developing a quality movie based on her plight and great success. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:08:01 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>In the culture Jewish women rule the News Cycle</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Aside from the blogosphere and the public affairs news cycle, Hollywood has not dealt with yet this weeks' heroics of two Jewish women: Debbie Friedman and Gabby Gifford. Debbie Friedman was buried this week after a December appearance for Limmud UK. Her songs are seminal in Jewish music especially the song "For Miriam," which is particularly timely as it ties in with this weeks Torah portion - Miriam leading the women celebrating in song with their timbrels at the Red Sea. A cultural force, Debbie was hailed in many circles and her influence has been felt in music in general for the last few decades, and not just Jewish music. I knew her personally and she was as gracious and vibrant as her music.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:21:24 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Bravo! Israeli Film Festival Celebrating 25 Years</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/bravo_israeli_film_festival_celebrating_25_years_20101021/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It is that time of year to once again celebrate Israeli films with the 25th Annual Israeli Film Festival honoring two of my old friends, producer Avi Lerner and actor Richard Dreyfuss who opens off Broadway next month in a two hand play about the great Rabbi and social justice advocate Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:18:02 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>The 34th Miner and Rebbe Nachman</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have not blogged since June!  The summer and early Fall got away from me with my first trip to NYC since my accident, and lots of work and life!  Saw the play "Red" on Broadway with client Alfred Molina and helped client Diane Lane open the well- reviewed movie "Secretariat".]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:45:46 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Esther Blueberger and Joan Rivers</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Two films, which has as the subject Jewish women, are making their debut this weekend:  one is fictional (Esther) and one is non-fiction - the inimitable Joan Rivers.  Both movies capture the Jewish female spirit in its complexity:  brilliant, insecure and unstoppable.  Both are works of Art, both are triumphs of personality, both exemplify 'coming of age angst' and both are conflicted about being a Jewish woman.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:45:58 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Get Chai In Cannes</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This Shabbat, the Los Angeles based Chai Center of Rabbi Schlomo and Olivia Schwartz is hosting a Shabbat dinner at the Cannes Film Festival at a Kosher restauraunt near the Palais. Sponsored, as it has been for the past six years by Hollywood heavyweights, including yours truly, this has been a well-attended annual Kosher Friday evening affair presided over by Rabbi Mendel Schwartz. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Wed, 12 May 2010 21:19:50 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Passover, The Omer and 3D</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pesach is ending and we are counting the Omer - seven weeks of Jewish 3D culminating in Shavous.  In Hollywood the box office is strong thanks to the magic of 3D but Hollywood has nothing on our story - the biggest spectacle of all led by Moses and the Women and Men of the Exodus.  It is not surprising that large sea and air creatures perform their feats to amaze modern audiences worldwide as we, the Jewish people, perform our own feats led by none other than Hashem, who created it all first. Bravery, challenge and divine leadership - it's all there!]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:41:08 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Spring Cleaning</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/spring_cleaning_20100312/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pesach is near.  Spring cleaning is at hand, physically and spiritually.  In Hollywood, the Award season is over and Spring movies abound (the spectacular "Alice in Wonderland") and pilots are now being shot for the Fall TV season and Fall movie releases prepared (including my client Diane Lane's Disney feature "Secretariat" about a woman who trains herself to learn how to train the Triple Crown winner of the 70's, an unlikely horse with an oversize heart, Secretariat).]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:41:36 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>MAZELTOV to Oscar Nominees and the Chai Center</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/mazeltov_to_oscar_nominees_and_the_chai_center_20100305/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Oscar weekend - parties swirling and my own client BRUCE VILANCH writing the Oscar telecast.  A good year for Hollywood women - especially over 40 women:  Mirren, Streep, Bigelow, Bullock.  My friends at the Chai Center are celebrating Sunday as well - with Media star, Michael Medved doing the keynote.  Go to the Chai Center event at the Olympic Collection before you go to the Vanity Fair after party.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:38:37 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>The Oscars: Harvey Weinstein and the Holocaust</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[For a second straight year the Oscars will have a Jewish themed/WWII movie indirectly dealing with the Holocaust produced, this year as last, by Harvey and Bob Weinstein who sold their high end movie company, Miramax, to Disney a few years ago.  Miramax (named famously for the Weinstein parents, Miriam and Max) was just sold by Disney, and Bob and Harvey's Oscar nominated movie, this year is under the label The Weinstein Company, called "The Inglorious Bastards" stars Brad Pitt and is written and directed by "Pulp Fiction" and Miramax protégé Quentin Tarantino.   It's a vivid and fantastic look at the Holocaust -more pulp pop fiction than last years' Weinstein Company entry into the Oscars - the sober and somber quasi love story, "The Reader" set after the Holocaust which earned the director Stephen Daldry a best director nomination and star Kate Winslet the Oscar itself as leading actress.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:09:10 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Building the Mishkan and Hollywood</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/building_the_mishkan_and_hollywood_20100219/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[How appropriate that today we are reminded in the Torah to make a sanctuary that is portable and where we speak to Hashem and get responses from the sacred space between the two Gold Cherubim.  It is almost Purim, almost the Oscars (which my longtime friend and client Bruce Vilanch writes) and on Oscar night the Chai Center is having their annual fundraiser at the Olympic Collection in West LA.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:49:16 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/good_news_bad_news_20100203/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA["Israeli formats are the ultimate greenhouse for ideas" - so says producer and former NBC honcho Ben Silverman in this weeks Variety. Along with an announcement that CBS  is adapting another format from Israel "Quinn-tuplets," this series is being developed in part by Arik Kneller who had been a student of mine in a master class sponsored by the Jewish Federation of LA two years ago.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:46:42 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Israeli Response To Haiti</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/israeli_response_to_haiti/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As we all are preparing ourselves for Hollywood's response to the Haitian crisis (thank you George Clooney) it is worth remarking on the swift, efficient and highly effective Israeli response. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:40:57 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Movie Queens and Biblical Queens</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/movie_queens_and_biblical_queens_20100113/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[To paraphrase the Mel Brooks line "It's good to be King," well this year "It's good to be Queen" or an over 40 actress or director just like Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock or director Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker"), Nancy Meyers ("It's Complicated") or that perennial over 40 Jewish-girl director Nora Ephron ("Julie & Julia") and Morning Star's own Lynn Roth of "The Little Traitor" starring a superb Alfred Molina.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:48:42 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Chanukah Gift: Miracle of Sara Berlin</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/chanukah_gift_miracle_of_sara_berlin_20091216/</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/chanukah_gift_miracle_of_sara_berlin_20091216/#When:21:23:10Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It is odd for the house phone to be ringing at 1:10AM, especially in August. The house phone rarely rings. Mom is sleeping in my room because Dad is sick. I had just crawled into bed. The phone rings again. Groggily, Mom picks up the phone. The caller is a stranger from California - something is wrong with Aunt Joan.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:23:10 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>A Time of Miracles</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/a_time_of_miracles_20091209/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[One year ago, at Channukah, I was in the hospital at UCLA. I lit an electric Menorah approved by my spiritual teachers Rabbis Schlomo and Mendel Schwartz and Olivia Schwartz.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:37:49 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>You Can Go Home Again</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/you_can_go_home_again_20091203/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As those who know me understand, I am recovering from a car accident which took place over a year ago. Many months have passed. I am home and working with my office as a Hollywood talent manager with a group of great high level and loyal clients.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:14:00 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Hollywood Matriarchs and Me</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/hollywood_matriarchs_and_me_20091123/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[So Oprah is leaving her show in 2011 - the airwaves are abuzz with this news - who's next?]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:54:27 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Acts of Charity and Kindness</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood-insider/item/acts_of_charity_and_kindness_20091116/</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[One year ago, when I came to consciousness in the hospital after a car accident, I was surrounded by family, clients, Hollywood friends and the Hollywood Jewish community who had maintained a presence at my side davening, learning and praying for me - one year later I have survived, am at home, working full time and continuing to learn with Torah buddies and my rabbis, Olivia, Schlomo and Mendel Schwartz of the Chai Center located in Mar Vista.  The Schwartzes have just suffered the death of a grand child in Jerusalem, three year old Shula who was killed in a freaky car accident.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:02:34 +0000</dc:date>
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