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From Torah To Television
TELUSHKIN from page 7
became four episodes of The Practice,
then a new Kelley series. Writing it also
landed Rabbi Telushkin an agent —
that most valuable of Hollywood cur-
rency. He was Ross Fineman, who hap-
pens to be one of Kelley's best friends.
Fineman sent one of the scripts for
The Practice to the Touched by an Angel
producers. Impressed, the producers
asked for ideas. Once again, Rabbi
Telushkin's worlds collided: Some time
earlier, another Performing Arts syna-
gogue member, Kirk Douglas, had told
the rabbi he'd like to have a chance to
play a character who, puts on tefillin.
After the meeting with the Angel pro-
ful style and sense of
ar mor — presenting a
'401iderful way of look-
at owselves, laugh-
elves and how
interact
ers in the
Jewish' law
and Jewish tradition."
•
ducers, Rabbi Telushkin went back to
Douglas and asked if he would be inte
ested in appearing in a Jewish-themed
Angel episode. The deal came together,
as they say in Tinsel Town, and the
episode — starring Douglas as an 83-
year-old non-observant Jew suddenly
forced to grapple with his heritage —
scheduled to air Sunday, March 12.
Angel executive producer Martha
Williamson says it was a pleasure to
work with Rabbi Telushkin and Estrin
We were all on the same wavelength,'
she says of their initial meeting. "It s
hard to get writers to grasp the vision
the show" After all, she points out,
Angel features three pure-as-driven-sn
main characters and the unseen pres-
'