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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Halston Sage

Courtesy of Wikipedia Halston Sage (born May 10, 1993) is an American actress. She is known for her television roles, such as Grace on the Nickelodeon series How to Rock (2012), Amber on the NBC series Crisis (2014), Alara Kitan on the Fox series The Orville (2017–2019), and Ainsley Whitley on the Fox television series Prodigal Son (2019–2021). Sage has also appeared in films, playing Lacey in Paper Towns and Kendall […]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Melissa Gilbert

Courtesy of Wikipedia Melissa Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress. Gilbert began her career as a child actress in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous commercials and guest-starring roles on television. From 1974 to 1983, she starred as Laura Ingalls Wilder, the second oldest daughter of Charles Ingalls (played by Michael Landon) on the NBC series Little House on

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Leslie Howard

In 1939, he starred with Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo and, in perhaps his best-known role, he performed as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind in a cast that included Clark Gable, Oliva de Havilland, and Vivian Leigh.  He returned to England to help with the war effort thereafter, making such World War II films as 49th Parallel, Pimpernel , and The First of the Few.  [SDJW staff]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Rhea Perlman

In the television show Taxi, she played the role of Zena Sherman, the sweet girlfriend of DeVito’s character Louie De Palma. In 1982, the same year she and DeVito married, she won the role of the wisecracking barmaid Carla Tortelli on Cheers, which in a run that ended in 1993 won 20 Emmy awards out of 95 nominations. Perlman won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy four times out of 10 nominations. [SDJW staff]

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Steven Spielberg: ‘The echoes of history are unmistakable in our current climate’

Published by Euronews (English) “The echoes of history are unmistakable in our current climate.” Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg said these words at a ceremony to honour the USC Shoah Foundation – a non-profit organisation he founded 30 years ago, which documents interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. The 77-year-old director of Schindler’s List

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Antisemites threaten to boycott next James Bond movie if Aaron Taylor-Johnson lands role over Jewish background

Published by GB News James Bond fans have threatened to stay away from the upcoming set of films in the franchise and made racist threats if Aaron Taylor-Johnson lands the role. According to The Sun, a source said: “Bond is Aaron’s job, should he wish to accept it. The formal offer is on the table

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Harry Houdini

His escapes became more and more complicated and thrilling, including from nailed packing crates that were lowered into water, riveted boilers, giant milk cans filled with water, and even from the belly of a whale that had washed ashore in Boston.  Sometimes Houdini would have himself put in a straight-jacket and suspended by his ankles from a tall building as the public watched him wriggle free. [SDJW staff]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Broncho Billy Anderson

He acted in over 300 short films, 148 of which he played the first cowboy movie star, Broncho Billy.  Many were filmed in Niles, a small town in Alameda County, California.  Today, Niles is part of Fremont, California, where there is an annual silent film festival in his honor. [SDJW staff]

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Amy Winehouse actress Marisa Abela reveals why she nearly rejected role in biopic

Published by Mirror By Mark Jefferies It was a role so big, she was unsure she could do it justice. But actor Marisa Abela has told how she now feels a strong connection with Amy Winehouse after making the biopic Back To Black. Marisa told Harper’s Bazaar her first instinct was to say “no that’s

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R.I.P. Eric Carmen: Raspberries Frontman and ‘All by Myself’ Singer Dead at 74

Published by Q Magazine Singer-songwriter Eric Carmen, best known as the frontman for power pop band the Raspberries, as well as the singer of the 1975 hit “All by Myself,” died over the past weekend, his family revealed on March 11. He was 74 years old. Carmen’s family shared the news on the singer’s website,

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Carol Burnett pays tribute to Steve Lawrence: ‘He was family to me…’

Published by BANG Showbiz English Carol Burnett was “so close” to Steve Lawrence that she thought of him as family. The 90-year-old comedienne took to social media to mourn the passing of her friend Steve – who died on Thursday (08.03.24) at the age of 88 – as she recalled that he had appeared on

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Dinah Shore

In 1951, she debuted The Dinah Shore Show on NBC television, and in 1956 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, a variety show that continued through 1961.  She sang with Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, and Pearl Bailey. When Tennessee Ernie Ford appeared on the show, she kiddingly introduced him as Tennessee Ernie Chevrolet. [SDJW staff]

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