NEWS & NOTES : FIRST OF STREISAND-PRODUCED HOLOCAUST `RESCUERS' FILMS WRAPS.Barbra Streisand Noun 1. Barbra Streisand - United States singer and actress (born in 1942) Barbra Joan Streisand, Streisand and business partner Cis Corman will produce three movies for cable's Showtime about non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue victims of the Holocaust. The two-hour films will be based on ``Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust,'' by Gay Block and Malka Drucker Malka T. Drucker (born March 14, 1945) is an American rabbi and author living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ordained in 1998 from the Academy for Jewish Religion, a transdenominational seminary, Malka Drucker is also the founding rabbi of HaMakom: The Place for Passionate and . Each film includes two stories. The first film, directed by Peter Bogdanovich (``The Last Picture Show'') and starring Sela Ward Sela Ann Ward (IPA: /ˈsiːlə ˈwɔrd/) (born July 11, 1956) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning television roles as free-spirited Teddy Reed on , Anne Jackson Anne Jackson (born September 3, 1926) is an American actress of stage, screen, and television. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Jackson trained at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse and The Actor's Studio. She made her Broadway debut in 1945. , Fritz Weaver and Elizabeth Perkins, recently completed production. More Moore: Reruns of Michael Moore's ``TV Nation,'' an offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. , irreverent look at the world that has failed on both NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. and Fox, is back, this time on Comedy Central. A total of 33 half-hour episodes, edited from the 17 original hourlong segments, will run at 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11:30 p.m. Saturday and 9 p.m. Sunday. Moore's show is a satiric investigative series, featuring crack ``correspondents'' Janeane Garofalo and Steven Wright. More Maury: Maury Povich notched a TV milestone recently when his daily talk show aired its 1,000th episode. And, like ``Montel Williams,'' which reached 1,000 a few weeks back, Povich shunned self-serving highlights. Instead, the topic, one close to his heart, was adoption. Povich and his wife, Connie Chung, adopted a son, Matthew, 18 months ago. As for the 1,000th telecast, Povich recalled how five years ago when the show began, some critics said it never would last. Povich said he felt ``tired'' and ``humble'' on reaching the mark. ``We started out with a direction that was very important to us, being very sensitive and honest to the viewers,'' he said. |
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