By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist New Flicks “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” is a romantic comedy about five couples, with intertwined lives, who are all facing the challenges of impending parenthood. There are so many storylines that I cannot lay them out all here. Suffice it to say that 14 actors and actresses are [ Read More...]

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Much More Goofy than Spooky The original “Dark Shadows” was a daytime TV soap opera (1966-71) about vampires and other B-movie creepy stuff. It acquired a cult following that remains pretty large until this day. What humor there was in the series was almost always accidental, caused by the demands [ Read More...]

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Jews Rock the Hall of Fame Last December, when the inductions for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced, I wrote a similar column item to the one below. If you missed that item, here it is again with some updates. The induction ceremony took place on April [ Read More...]

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Hebrew Major Leaguers The following is a list of Jews in the major leagues as of April 18. Jewish Sports Review magazine helped me with this list: RYAN BRAUN, 28, outfielder, Milwaukee. Braun was the 2011 National League MVP; CRAIG BRESLOW, 31, pitcher, Arizona; IKE DAVIS, 24, first base, NY [ Read More...]

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Drake’s Second Bar Mitzvah Drake, the rap singer, has soared to the top of his field since the release of his first studio album in June 2010. Most rappers come out of America’s mean urban streets. Drake was born (1986) and raised in an affluent Toronto neighborhood, the son of [ Read More...]

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist The Three Stooges Movie Okay, don’t expect it to make sense “ethnic wise.” It doesn’t. I speak of “The Three Stooges,” a slapstick comedy from the Farrelly Brothers (“There’s Something About Mary,” et al.) that opens in theaters on April 13. The “real” Stooges were almost all Jewish (MOE HOWARD [ Read More...]

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Your Titanic Scorecard April 15, 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the famous ocean liner and yesterday, April 4, a 3-D re-issue of the blockbuster 1997 film “Titanic” opened in theaters. Here’s a “scorecard” of the Jewish cast members and the real-life Jewish Titanic passengers [ Read More...]

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Gates’ New Ancestry Program In 2010, the (terrific) PBS program “Faces of America,” explored the ancestry of 12 famous Americans. The host of “Faces,” African-American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., returns to PBS as the host of “Finding Your Roots,” a new, 10-part, famous person ancestry series. The first [ Read More...]

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Probably Not “From Hunger” Opening on Friday, March 23, is “The Hunger Games,” a big budget fantasy based on the best-selling young adult novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. Collins and director GARY ROSS, 55, co-wrote the screenplay. The plot: it is a post-apocalyptic world and the countries [ Read More...]

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Zach Braff Responds to Me and Cousin Mitt Romney On Feb. 9, a longer version of the following column item (written by me) appeared in The American Israelite. Actor ZACH BRAFF, as I will explain below, read this longer version. If you missed my Feb. 9 column—here’s the essence of [ Read More...]