MONDAY,
MARCH 8TH
sion of the title character in
HBO's saga of modeling turned
mayhem, Gia.
The lean and lovely young-
ster is a model of good behav-
ior — and professionalism —
although some teen-speak
seeps into Mila's conversation.
Asked how Mila felt about
getting the role of Jackie, a
with-it, cool teen on "That .
70's Show," she replies, "Well,
I was shocked pretty much
when I got it. I mean, it was
the awesomest thing, and it
was pretty exciting."
What Mila would like to do in the
future "is pursue acting, and I want to
go to college.
She is proud of her accomplish-
ments, but says that perhaps more than
anything, "I am proud to be a Jew." 1-1
— Michael Elkin
Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
"That 70's Show" airs 8:30 p.m.
Sundays on Fox.
Between The Pages
In its 49th year of granting awards,
the Jewish Book Council named finalists
in 15 categories for the 1998 National
Jewish Book Awards. Winners will be
announced March 11 in New York City.
For fiction, the nominees include
three first novelists and several veter-
ans, including Isaac Bashevis Singer,
the late Nobel prize-winning Yiddish
author who manages to keep publish-
ing. This year, a new category,
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National Book Award
in the Autobiography/Me-
moir category In his
book, Gay, a renowned
historian, tells of his
youth as an assimilated,
antireligious Jew. in
Nazi Germany from
1933-1939.
women's studies, was added.
Other categories are general nonfic-
tion, autobiography/memoir, educa-
tion, history, children's literature, chil-
dren's picture book, Holocaust, Israel,
Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish
scholarship, Sephardic and Ashkenazic
culture, Sephardic studies and thought.
Four hundred books were nominated
for National Jewish Book Awards, either
by publishers or individuals, says Jewish
Book Council director Carolyn Starman
Hessel. Their goal, she says, is to
"heighten awareness of the best books,
which goes along with their mission to
promote the reading, writing and pub-
lishing of Jewish books in English."
Philip Roth will receive the Literary
Achievement Award.
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