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| Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
Jewish 'Star' Power: When Darren Star got his bar mitzvah money, he used some of it to buy a subscription to Variety magazine. It's no surprise the Jewish boy with his eye on Hollywood success way back then has made it big, having created and executive produced "Beverly Hills 90210," "Melrose Place," and "Sex and the City." His newest project is "Miss Match," which debuts this fall with Alicia Silverstone in the starring role. Now, he's being honored with the Tisch Industry Leadership Award courtesy of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
We would make a joke about trashy TV being awarded for its cultural influence, but we just couldn't. Star is actually a serious mensch, whether its adapting the memoirs of Deborah Copaken, a Jewish photojournalist, into a film for Dreamworks or recently pow-wowing on Jewish images in Hollywood. So we say mazel tov to the man who lived up to his name.
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