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Home Box Office (HBO), a subsidiary of Time Warner, offers two 24/7 pay-television services to over 40 million subscribers in the United States. Apart from United States, HBO services are offered in India, Central Europe, Canada, and in over 150 other countries. Articles about HBO
Feb 10, 2011
The Weekly Schmooze: Guidos 'heart' Jewish girls
By LAHAV HARKOV
If you've ever wondered what it feels like to be nominated for an Oscar, it's possible that you've already experienced the sensation. Jesse…
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Jan 4, 2011
TA cinema packed for film on kids of foreign workers
By BEN HARTMAN
A capacity crowd filled the Cinematheque in Tel Aviv on Monday night for the premiere of Strangers no More, a documentary on south Tel Aviv’s…
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Nov 25, 2010
The Weekly Schmooze: Werewolf Bar-Mitzvah Remix
By LAHAV HARKOV
In Manhattan, on Seventh Avenue between 39th and 40th streets, there's a statue sculpted in 1984 by Israeli artist Judith Weller, depicting a tailor…
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Nov 16, 2010
Pulling no punches, down to The Wire
By GIL SHEFLER
NEW ORLEANS – David Simon is not an easily intimidated man. Before creating The Wire, one of the most highly acclaimed television series of all time,…
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Nov 7, 2010
Jews converge on New Orleans still blighted by Katrina
By GIL SHEFLER
NEW ORLEANS – Pity the residents of New Orleans. Their city, which is hosting the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly, had been in…
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Nov 5, 2010
An equal opportunity offender
By DAVID BRINN
In a nutshell, that statement by writer/producer Uzi Weil describes the motive behind the Israeli adaptation of The Office, the hit comedy series on…
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Nov 5, 2010
Falling in love in – and with – Jerusalem
By ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN/ISRAEL21C
Afeature-length major motion picture starring Israel’s ancient capital city is to be filmed next fall and released to theaters, DVD and video on…
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Oct 4, 2010
New survey on sex in US, biggest since 1994
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
The male-female orgasm gap. The sex lives of 14-year-olds. An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging…
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Sep 28, 2010
Giamatti gives his ‘version’ at the Haifa Film Festival
By HANNAH BROWN
“I’m not very smart,” said actor Paul Giamatti at a press conference on Monday, at the 26th Haifa International Film Festival. The quirky actor,…
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Sep 8, 2010
Vying from Venice to Toronto
By HANNAH BROWN
Nowhere will the Israeli presence be more front and center than at the Toronto International Film Festival, which began on September 9 and runs…
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Jul 23, 2010
'Your true identity is your bank account, baby'
By ADAAM JAMES LEVIN-AREDDY
Second PersonBy Sayed Kashua | Keter | 318 pages | NIS 92If you were to ask Sayed Kashua about his new, best-selling book, Second Person, he’d say…
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Jul 9, 2010
Reel ’em in
By HANNAH BROWN
The 27th Jerusalem Film Festival, which runs through July 17, got underway last night with a prescreening in the Sultan’s Pool Amphitheatre of La…
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Jun 15, 2010
A tour of hell
By TOM TUGEND
LOS ANGELES – After his liberation from Auschwitz, Italian writer and scientist Primo Levi observed that “To destroy a man is difficult, almost as…
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Jun 7, 2010
Foreman heroic in defeat to Cotto at Yankee Stadium
By JOSEPH D. ROBBINS, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK – Yuri Foreman entered the ring at Yankee Stadium on Saturday night to the sound of a shofar blowing, with a title belt by his side and an…
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Dec 31, 2009
Ten for ten
By Hannah Brown
This decade was dominated by forgettable big-budget films with increasingly sophisticated special effects. People tended to turn to television…
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Dec 31, 2009
Israel's smash-hit decade
By Hannah Brown
It's all in the eyebrows. When I used to tell people I wrote about Israeli movies, their eyebrows would furrow downward, into an unmistakable…
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Dec 31, 2009
Going Hollywood
By Hannah Brown
In spite of the success of Israeli films worldwide, most actors and directors here have decided to stay put, with a few high-profile exceptions. The…
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Dec 5, 2009
Whole lotta 'Loves'
By David Brinn
Phil Rosenthal and Monica Horan are still trying to please audiences. However, four years since Everybody Loves Raymond ended its wildly successful…
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Dec 4, 2009
US TV show to feature Shaare Zedek
By David Brinn
Can an American reality TV series, in which US doctors are thrust into the sociologically complex, perplexing and life-and-death situations of a…
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Nov 30, 2009
DVD Review: 'Gommorah'
By Brian Blondy
Gomorrah (2008)Criterion Collection137 MinutesNot rated'Are you scared?" the gunman asks the 12-year-old boy just before his submissive yes is erased…
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