When Entourage wraps up its third season Sunday night, fans can expect answers to many questions.
Will Vinnie stop alienating studio heads long enough to land another job? Will he fire his agent Ari? Will Johnny Drama ruin his chance for glory in an Ed Burns pilot by pleasuring himself while unknowingly wearing a mike?
I’m willing ...

A friend, knowing I value the perverse and idiotic, sent me an email with an image so ridiculous I burst out laughing: a billboard in Los Angeles featuring the inspirational smile of Oprah Winfrey next to the words “Oprah Goes to Auschwitz. Wednesday at 3 P.M.” Incredulous, I wondered if she’d be taking her studio ...

Honestly, it was a girl’s dream come true. Queer Eye called, and they were looking for my husband.
To be fair, David does have excellent taste. He’s just a bit of a…minimalist? So I figured hey, if the Fab Five could set him up with three more pairs of shoes—even two!—I’d feel slightly less self-conscious about ...

As the latest season of The Real World rolls out in Key West, Odessa-born Svetlana (“We’re not Russian, we’re Jewish,” she tells the camera) is the babe to watch. Sure, she’s got a boyfriend back home, but he’s several thousand miles away now and comes off as a meathead; the teasers for Tuesday’s episode suggest ...

Arrested Development, Fox’s much admired but ultimately doomed comedy, hasn’t yet been buried a month and ABC has trotted out Sons & Daughters, a sitcom about a diverse clan of dysfunctional suburbanites. It’s an obvious copy. There’s Cameron, a lukewarm everyman with the best of intentions and the worst of results; his awkward son with ...

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think Jews are a bunch of insufferable narcissists who need not only to keep telling themselves they’re as good as everyone else but also forever and loudly assert it in pop culture. How else to explain something like So Jewtastic, VH1’s vapid appreciation of Natalie Portman, Jon Stewart ...

Until this week’s episode, I loved Entourage, the story of three childhood friends from Queens who follow a fourth, the good-looking and endearing actor Vincent Chase, around Los Angeles as his star ascends with the help of his agent, Ari Gold. Played by Jeremy Piven, Ari is one part bully, one part oracle, one part ...

In The Chosen Image: Television’s Portrayal of Jewish Themes and Characters (1999), Jonathan and Judith Pearl argue that, although Hollywood movies tend to depict the bar and bat mitzvah as trivial or materialistic (the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The Wedding Singer, the Ben Stiller role in Starsky & Hutch), television has taken a far more ...

Born in Bavaria in 1840, Solomon Star was sent to live with his uncle in Cincinnati at age 10. But it wasn’t long after his 21st birthday that he picked up and headed west. He wound up in the Dakota Territory, in a Black Hills gold mining camp called Deadwood, and rose from hardware store ...

Seth Cohen, the half-Jewish stud on The OC, is a terrific character. Played by Adam Brody, he is handsome, likeable, and self-conscious about his background. Often, this self-consciousness takes the most obvious form: affected, self-deprecating neurosis. In Thursday’s episode, Cohen complained that, instead of having a sexy “dark side,” his alter personality was “a yenta ...