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TV Review: Why ‘Princesses: Long Island’ doesn’t work

By JANA BANIN

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA) — The debut season of Bravo’s reality show “Princesses: Long Island” has finally come to a close and I think it’s pretty safe to declare it a disappointment.

Not that you would have had...

Dustin Hoffman claims to have beat cancer

(JTA) — Dustin Hoffman has been “surgically cured” of cancer, a spokesman for the actor said.

“It was detected early and he has been surgically cured,” Hoffman’s publicist told People magazine, which was the first to report the story.

She...

Eydie Gormé, singer and partner of Steve Lawrence, dies in Las Vegas

Eydie Gormé, a beloved singer and performer both with and without her famous husband and partner, Steve Lawrence, passed away last night in a Las Vegas hospital after a brief illness. She was just six days short of what would...

Big bucks for Portman and Kunis, Edon at camp, Farrow hunts Nazis

By SIX DEGREES (No Bacon) STAFF

NEW YORK (6nobacon.com) — Forbes just released its list of Hollywood’s highest paid actresses, and (drumroll, please) two of the 10 stars are Jewish. Not bad, ladies!

Natalie Portman comes in at No. 8, having earned $14...

TV show starring future pope and rabbi take Argentinian Emmy

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — A television program featuring a rabbi and the future Pope Francis was given a Martin Fierro Award, the Argentinian version of the Emmys.

Other winners of Argentinian entertainment’s most prestigious awards handed out Tuesday night...

Princesses’ gig a teacher’s nightmare, Drake sorry for lyrics, Tom Jones doing Tel Aviv

By SIX DEGREES (No Bacon) STAFF

NEW YORK (6nobacon.com) — When Stefan Serie appeared as an extra on Bravo’s “Princesses: Long Island,” he did what the female stars on the show do practically every episode — prance around a party...

Don’t let him be misunderstood: Animals’ Burdon playing Israel

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Eric Burdon, lead singer of the popular Sixties band The Animals, said he will perform in Israel days after canceling a concert due to threatening emails.

On Monday, after saying last week that he had canceled his...

Roger Waters’ concert features Nazi-like uniform, pig balloon with Jewish symbol

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) — Roger Waters, a rock musician critical of Israel, used a giant, pig-shaped balloon emblazoned with a Star of David and symbols of dictatorial regimes during a recent concert in Belgium.

Waters, who recently urged other performers to...

Portman’s film in Jerusalem, Jewish Emmy nominations, Mike Myers’ ‘Supermensch’

By SIX DEGREES (No Bacon) STAFF

NEW YORK (6NoBacon.com) — Natalie Portman is working on a special homecoming.

The Jerusalem-born actress will be heading back to her hometown to shoot an adaptation of “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” the...

Film director Mira Nair boycotting Haifa festival

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Director Mira Nair snubbed an invitation to be a “guest of honor” at an Israeli film festival. Nair, the director of “Monsoon Wedding,” tweeted last Friday that she will go to Israel “when Apartheid is over.”

Nair,...