{"id":8592,"date":"2013-08-07T05:21:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T11:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=8592"},"modified":"2013-08-08T19:06:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T01:06:20","slug":"big-bucks-for-portman-and-kunis-edon-at-camp-farrow-hunts-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/big-bucks-for-portman-and-kunis-edon-at-camp-farrow-hunts-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"Big bucks for Portman and Kunis, Edon at camp, Farrow hunts Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SIX DEGREES (No Bacon) STAFF<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (<a href=\"http:\/\/6nobacon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">6nobacon.com<\/a>) &#8212; Forbes just\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2013\/07\/31\/arts-entertainment\/natalie-portman-mila-kunis-among-10-highest-paid-actresses-in-hollywood\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a>\u00a0its list of Hollywood\u2019s highest paid actresses, and (drumroll, please) two of the 10 stars are Jewish. Not bad, ladies!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8610\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kunis-and-Portman.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8610\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8610 lazyload\" title=\"17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards - Show\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kunis-and-Portman-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kunis-and-Portman-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kunis-and-Portman-1024x781.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/228;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8610\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8610 \" title=\"17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards - Show\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kunis-and-Portman-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kunis-and-Portman-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kunis-and-Portman-1024x781.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mila Kunis, left, and Natalie Portman speaking at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Natalie Portman<\/strong>\u00a0comes in at No. 8, having earned $14 million this year. While the Oscar winner has been in the news lately for her upcoming directorial debut, it\u2019s blockbusters like \u201cThor\u201d that are bolstering her impressive paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>A spot behind Portman is the Ukraine-born\u00a0<strong>Mila Kunis<\/strong>\u00a0with $11 million. Kunis is a newcomer to the Forbes list thanks to big hits like \u201cTed\u201d and \u201cOz: The Great and Powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpect her quote, which is currently modest by Hollywood standards, to climb accordingly,\u201d Forbes says of Kunis, \u201cone of the most sought-after actresses in Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What, $11 million doesn\u2019t sound modest to you? To put things in perspective, Angelina Jolie heads the list with $33 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edon takes talent to camp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know about you, but back when we attended Jewish sleepaway camp, the most exciting form of entertainment was a shoddy production of \u201cBye Bye Birdie.\u201d Apparently things have changed &#8212; at least for the kids at Camp Mesorah, a coed Orthodox Jewish camp in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday\u00a0night, they were<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2013\/08\/05\/arts-entertainment\/watch-edon-pinchots-summer-camp-concert\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0treated to a concert<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Edon Pinchot<\/strong>, aka the &#8220;Jewish Justin Bieber.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pinchot, an Orthodox teenager from Skokie, Ill., made waves in the Jewish world and on national television when he appeared last year on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent.\u201d He was eliminated in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mia Farrow, Twitter Nazi hunter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One day after an Associated Press\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2013\/07\/31\/arts-entertainment\/six-degrees-no-bacon\/mia-farrow-twitter-nazi-hunter\" target=\"_blank\">report\u00a0<\/a>that 10 alleged Nazi war criminals were never deported from the United States, Mia Farrow decided to take action. Farrow, who is known to have a politically active Twitter account, reposted the names and whereabouts of the four who are still alive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kravitz opening the U.S. Open<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some lucky fans won\u2019t have to wait until the next installment of \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d to catch a new performance by\u00a0<strong>Lenny Kravitz<\/strong>. The New York Post reports that the rocker\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2013\/08\/05\/arts-entertainment\/lenny-kravitz-to-headline-us-open-opening-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\">will headline<\/a>\u00a0the opening ceremony of the U.S. Open on\u00a0Aug. 26\u00a0at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>Kravitz won&#8217;t be performing the \u201cStar-Spangled Banner,\u201d though. That honor is going to Frenie Acoba, the 11-year-old playing Lavender in Broadway\u2019s \u201cMatilda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rogen heading Franco roast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prospect of Comedy Central\u2019s upcoming\u00a0<strong>James Franco<\/strong>\u00a0roast became funnier when the network\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2013\/08\/04\/arts-entertainment\/james-francos-comedy-central-roast-to-be-hosted-by-seth-rogen\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>\u00a0last Friday that\u00a0<strong>Seth Rogen\u00a0<\/strong>has been named roast master.<\/p>\n<p>The two Jewish actors go way back, having co-starred slightly more than a decade ago on the TV series \u201cFreaks and Geeks\u201d and more recently in the films \u201cPineapple Express\u201d and \u201cThis is the End.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The special will air on\u00a0Sept. 2, improving Labor Day for fans everywhere and helping Jewish fans ring in the New Year that hits two days later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Potter girl&#8217;s Jewish love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New photographs\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2013\/08\/02\/arts-entertainment\/new-couple-alert-harry-potter-star-bonnie-wright-and-simon-hammerstein\" target=\"_blank\">show<\/a>\u00a0Bonnie Wright, aka Ginny Weasley from \u201cHarry Potter,\u201d making out with someone who looks a great deal like<strong>\u00a0Simon Hammerstein<\/strong>, a great-great-grandson of<strong> Oscar Hammerstein I<\/strong>, the 19th Century Jewish opera promoter and theater operator. The elder Hammerstein&#8217;s grandson <strong>Oscar Hammerstein II<\/strong> was the legendary lyricist of &#8220;Showboat&#8221; with Jewish composer <strong>Jerome Kern<\/strong>, but more famously recalled as the lyricist with Jewish composer <strong>Richard Rodgers<\/strong> for Broadway blockbusters \u201cOklahoma,&#8221; &#8220;Carousel,&#8221; &#8220;South Pacific&#8221; and \u201cThe Sound of Music.\u201d Although Hammerstein II was a member of a &#8220;mostly Jewish&#8221; fraternity as a collegian, he lived his life and identified as an Episcopalian.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail ran no less than 14 photos, all variations of lil Ginny, 22, on a boat in Positano, Italy, romping around and cuddling with Hammerstein, her senior by more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Hammerstein is co-owner of the Box, a burlesque nightclub with outposts in New York and London known for its celebrity following and sexually outrageous acts. His bad boy image is derived in part from a 2008 sexual harassment charge from two Box performers.<\/p>\n<p>Wright split a year ago with fiance Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays young Gellert Grindelwald in \u201cHarry Potter,\u201d while Hammerstein is in the middle of divorce proceedings with his wife of five years, Francesca Zampi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holocaust saga on Hollerado video<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Few music videos double as documentaries about incredible Holocaust stories. Then again, few bands have stories like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2013\/08\/01\/arts-entertainment\/canadian-indie-singer-tells-story-of-nazi-who-saved-his-grandfathers-life-meets-nazis-grandson-in-new-music-video\" target=\"_blank\">the one passed down<\/a>\u00a0to Hollerado\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Menno Versteeg<\/strong>\u00a0by his grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>Versteeg, the singer for the Canadian indie band, spoke to the Huffington Post about \u201cSo It Goes,\u201d the song he wrote about his grandfather\u00a0<strong>Karel Versteeg<\/strong>, a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II. The senior Versteeg was captured and imprisoned in 1942, but saved from execution by a sympathetic Nazi soldier.<\/p>\n<p>In a monologue at the start of the video, Versteeg recounts what happened between his grandfather and the officer in charge of his fate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you were in the same situation that I\u2019m in, if your country has just been occupied by another country, if your city was Rotterdam and it was on fire, if it had just been leveled to the ground, what would you do?\u201d Versteeg says his grandfather asked\u00a0 the officer. \u201cThe German officer said to him, \u2018I would do the exact same thing as you\u2019re doing. I would fight back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karel Versteeg was held in solitary confinement for two years. Upon his release he returned the favor granted by the Nazi officer, testifying on behalf of his savior at a war crimes tribunal. According to the story, the testimony bought the officer his freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward six decades and two generations, and Hollerado is filming its video for the musical version of the story in locations around Holland, including the Oranjehotel, where Karel Versteeg spent his two years of imprisonment (and where many Jews were held as well).<\/p>\n<p>Even more amazing: The Dutch government helped Versteeg track down the grandson of the empathetic Nazi officer! (The full names of the German officer and his grandson have been redacted at the request of both families.)<\/p>\n<p><em>For the latest Jewish celebrity news, visit JTA&#8217;s 6 Degrees (No Bacon) blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Big%20bucks%20for%20Portman%20and%20Kunis%2C%20Edon%20at%20camp%2C%20Farrow%20hunts%20Nazis\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[586,3407,8790,8795,3406,3405,837,3253,8788,3408],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8594,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions\/8594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}