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In October 1971, The Electric Company flipped a switch and hit the public TV airwaves, aimed at using sketch comedy and animated shorts to teach kids to read.

At the start of each interview session for his autobiography,

A short account of the blacklisting of dozens of writers and actors from the movie industry in Hollywood amidst the anti-communist hysteria of the late 1940s and 1950s.

Racial sensitivity is all the rage in film and TV casting – except when it comes to Gentiles playing Jews. Why?

Buster Keatons fame was aided by such Jewish stalwarts as Harry Houdini, Joseph Schenck and, much later, Richard Lester and Stephen Sondheim.

The Anatomy of an Error as a Puzzler Matt Gaffney @metabymatt how many people have pointed out (re todays Daily Beast) that 9D didnt star in 4D and in fact had only one line and it was a voiceover?— Seth "Gerg" Christenfeld (@earbox) June 28, 2021 Uh-oh! 9-Down was MEL BROOKS, the iconic funnyman who turned 95 years old on Monday, and 4-Down was the PRODUCERS, his famous play. Everyone knows Mel Brooks starred in the 1967 film version of "The Producers," right? Except not. He ...

Tom Dugan in a rehearsal for Tevye in New York. (Courtesy of The Wallis/ via JTA) LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The last time we saw Tevye the Milkman on Broadway in “Fiddler on the Roof” was in 2016, escaping Anatevka as a pogrom swept the shtetl. Now, almost five years later, he is resurfacing in a one-man play titled “Tevye in New York,” opening in its world premiere — in Beverly Hills, of all places. It’s the latest radical reimagining of the beloved Sholem Aleichem character, who also ...

For starters, let’s get a few things out of the way:

As pandemic sends him back to the family business, a scion to the NYC supermarket known for its lox and other delicacies gives listeners a taste of its colorful day-to-day life

Photo by David Zabar Willie Zabar, left, is the host of a new podcast about his family’s business. Zabar’s General Manager Scott Goldshine, right, appears on the show. (JTA) — For many 20-somethings, the experience of moving back into their parents’ home during the pandemic was common. For Willie Zabar, fourth-generation scion of one of New York’s most famous Jewish emporiums, the pandemic brought a different kind of homecoming: returning to the family business. A comedian and theater...