Roll out the red carpet
The Emmys are on CBS on Sept. 18, and here are the Jewish “on-camera” nominees.
The actresses nominated include Jill Clayburgh (best guest actress, drama, “Nip/Tuck”); Patricia Arquette (lead actress, drama, “Medium”); Debra Winger (lead actress, TV movie, “Dawn Anna”); and Camryn Manheim (best supporting actress, TV movie, “Elvis”).
Doris Roberts (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) and Jessica Walter (“Arrested Development”) are in the running for the best supporting actress in a comedy.
The actors nominated include: Zach Braff (best lead actor, comedy, “Scrubs”); Hank Azaria (best lead actor, drama, “Huff”); and William Shatner (best supporting actor, drama, “Boston Legal”).
Martin Landau (“Without a Trace”) and Red Buttons (“ER”) compete for best guest actor, drama. Likewise, Victor Garber and Jeff Goldlbum vie for best guest actor, comedy; both appeared on “Will and Grace.”
Competing for best supporting actor, comedy series, are Jeffrey Tambor (“Arrested Development”), Jeremy Piven (“Entourage”) and Brad Garrett (“Everybody Loves Raymond”).
Jon Stewart and Sascha Baron Cohen are nominated in several categories (including best variety show) for, respectively, “The Daily Show” and “Da Ali G Show.”
Mazel tov, cubed
Actress Rena Sofer, 38, and her husband, director Sanford Bookstaver, 32, are the parents of a baby girl born Aug. 5 and named Avalon Leone Bookstaver.
Sofer, whose father is an Orthodox rabbi, married Bookstaver in 2003 in a lovely Jewish wedding that made the pages of People and InStyle magazines.
On Aug. 22, Jerry Seinfeld, 51, and his wife, Jessica Sklar Seinfeld, 34, had their third child, a son they named Shepherd Kellen Seinfel. The couple, who married in an elegant but small Jewish wedding in 1999, have a 2-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter.
On Aug. 24, former “Punky Brewster” star Soleil Moon Frye, 29, gave birth to a baby girl. She and her husband, TV producer Jason Goldberg, 34, named their child Poet Rose Sienna Goldberg.
Frye, whose mother is Jewish, had a big Jewish wedding when she married Goldberg in 1998.
Levy, now and later
Eugene Levy and Samuel L. Jackson star in the film “The Man,” which opens this week. Levy plays a dental supply salesman who improbably teams up with federal agent Jackson in a comedy/drama that has a murder mystery and lots of car chases. Might be fun.
I know “For Your Consideration” will be fun. It’s another Levy/Christopher Guest collaboration that begins filming in October. The team that brought you “Waiting For Guffman,” “Best in Show,” and “A Mighty Wind” takes on the problems that result on a movie set when the word “Oscar” is mentioned in connection with an actor’s performance in the movie.
Columnist Nate Bloom, an Oaklander, can be reached at [email protected].