By Susan R. Eisenstein | May 20, 2021
Yisroel ‘Randy’ Settenbrino, Brooklyn-born, Clifton resident, and developer of the Blue Moon Hotel in New York City, is on a very important mission. He is campaigning to save the hotel. First opened in 2006, the Blue Moon Hotel is located on 100 Orchard Street, the Bicentennial Block, across the street from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. The Blue Moon Hotel is the second oldest building after the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street. It is housed in an historic, beautifully restored eight-story brick tenement building Settenbrino added three of the floors that was built in 1879. The hotel gives guests the feeling of the 19th century and the neighborhood’s Jewish history as home to working-class immigrants.
Join “Little Singer with a Big Ego” by Edward Linn, from the May 6, 1961, issue of The Saturday Evening Post
“Darin,” says comedian George Burns, “has the talent and the personal magnetism to become the dominant entertainer of his generation. Nothing can stop him but himself.”
What could stop him, Burns obviously fears, is a built-in arrogance, a poise and self-assurance that seem to challenge the audience. “Bobby walked out on the stage on opening night like he thought he was Al Jolson or, better still, Frank Sinatra,” Burns says. “They’d look at him, and you could see them thinking, ‘This little boy can’t be that good.’ They resented him in the first number and they resented him even more in the second. But a funny thing happens. By the third number he gets older. They forget they don’t like him because they’re too busy watching him.”
The American Jewish actor, director, and producer Norman Nathan Lloyd, who died May 10 at age 106, proved over a long career how in show business, it’s who you know as well as what you know that counts. In his 1990 memoir “Stages” from Scarecrow Press, reprinted in 2004 by Limelight Editions, Lloyd explains how he was born in Jersey City to Conservative Jewish parents who hastened back to the Bronx and eventually to Flatbush to enjoy New York culture.
His father Max managed a furniture store while his mother Sedia was a frustrated singer. When Lloyd was around nine years old, his mother took him for elocution and dance lessons. Lloyd and his mother haunted Broadway musicals of the 1920s and 30s, idolizing Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, as well as the composers George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and Harold Arlen. As Lloyd told “The Jewish Week” in 2007: “The Jews are an artistic people… It’s clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. I
Gutfeld! panel discuss Jimmy Kimmel s reaction to Jenner s interview without acknowledging his own past
Whatever happened to Sarah Silverman? Seriously, what happened to her? She used to be the fun comedian with the potty mouth who wore pig tails and her college boyfriend’s football jersey until she was in her 40’s.
Now she’s a middle-aged political activist who earnestly Trans-splains the world of competitive sports to - of all people, the world’s greatest Trans athlete in history - Caitlyn Jenner.
Sarah Silverman Podcast clip: Caitlyn, you re a woman, right? A Trans girl is a girl. She should have the same rights as cis girls// what, you think a Trans girl is too strong? What about tall girls as opposed to short girls? What about boys in high school who are teeny tiny and their teammates have already hit puberty and are shaving? Why don t you just have co-ed sports divided by weight and height, you know? This is so dumb. // This is not concern for girls sports.