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Phil Johnson, plays Bernie Lutz, a fictionalized version of Abraham Polonsky, an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter who was blacklisted by Hollywood studios for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Read More“I was the hairy Jewish monkey in a sea of blond kids.”
Read MoreMatthew Broderick ably reprises his bumbling, get-along schtick that has become a staple of his acting resume.
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Alice Dwyer portrays German Holocaust survivor Hanni Levy in “The Invisibles.” (Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment)
“I was a little bit nervous about how the people would feel about it. I’m not Jewish. The movie touches a very sensitive point of [Jewish] history,” director Claus Rafle.
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Nate 'n Al's Deli is a landmark deli in Beverly Hills, Calif., June 17, 2016. (FG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
It didn’t seem likely that anyone putting up $25 million would do so to run a deli.
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Amy Heckerling at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, April 18, 2016. (Mike Coppola/Getty)
“Unfortunately, men have bigger failures and more failures but get more chances,” Heckerling said.
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Felicity Jones plays a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg in “On the Basis of Sex.” (Jonathan Wenk/Focus Features)
Viewers here don’t meet “Notorious RBG,” as she is often called these days — the tough, take-no-prisoners liberal pop culture icon of the last decade. Young Ruth is not yet a superhero in 1972.
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Alan Arkin, left, and Michael Douglas star in "The Kominsky Method," the latest from "Big Bang Theory" creator Chuck Lorre. (Mike Yarish/Netflix)
“The Kominsky Method” is the wisest and saddest new comedy on television. That might be its biggest problem.
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A scene from "The Waverly Gallery" shows, from left, Joan Allen, Elaine May, Lucas Hedges and David Cromer. (Brigitte Lacombe)
Elaine May, who stars as aging Jewish family matriarch Gladys Green, has made many headlines.
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Harvey Fierstein, left, inspired Moises Kaufman with his groundbreaking work "Torch Song Trilogy." (Courtesy of Torch Song on Broadway)
Who could have imagined that the story of a young gay Jewish man’s quest for love and validation in a world that viewed him as an abomination would become such a hit?
Read MoreMoshe Zonder is spending the fall semester teaching a course called Screenwriting and Television at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
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