Movies
Veteran stage and screen actor Fyvush Finkel, best known for his Emmy-winning role as the expressive and often bombastic attorney Douglas Wambaugh on the comedy-drama “Picket Fences, has died.
Aug. 14, 2016
Television
Fyvush Finkel says he never would have changed his name-- even if he had been asked.
Sept. 23, 1994
Entertainment & Arts
Hollywood has a phrase for it: Special material.
Nov. 29, 1990
If you had never seen a picture of him, and though he did nothing for the moment but sit, it still wouldn’t have been hard to pick out Fyvush Finkel onstage during a rehearsal of “Finkel’s Follies” at the Westwood Playhouse (it opens tonight).
Nov. 27, 1990
There aren’t many animated movies made for so specific an ethnic audience as French filmmaker Albert Hanan Kaminski’s “Aaron’s Magic Village,” and for his stick-to-it-iveness alone, he deserves credit.
Sept. 19, 1997
Radio talk show host Dennis Prager will host the 22nd annual “L’Chaim--To Life” telethon on KCAL-TV Sunday.
Aug. 23, 2002
“When you’re dealing with music,” says violinist Itzhak Perlman, “you’re dealing with the soul of a society.
Dec. 2, 1995
Chronicling fDocumentary about the first family of early 20th- century Yiddish theater, the film sparkles with the the wisdom and humor of its subjects.
May 24, 2002
Producer-writer David E.
Oct. 23, 2000
For a period next fall and winter, the Westwood Playhouse will become a modern Los Angeles outpost of old-fashioned Yiddish theater, as it was practiced on Second Avenue in New York’s Lower East Side.
Aug. 16, 1990