Giving salad an inferiority complex Celebrity Jews NATE BLOOM Special to the Jewish News Emmy fine The Emmys will be held next Sunday, Sept. 19, from 8-11 p.m. on ABC, and the nominees' names are familiar. It seems like we see the same faces for a five-year cycle. However, if you pick up a short biography of the Jewish women who are up for the acting Emmys, you'll discover they all happen to be interest- ing people in their own right. The Jewish actresses nominated this year include DORIS ROBERTS, who has won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series award the last three years for Everybody Loves Raymond. Roberts paid her dues with decades of small roles before Raymond made her a household name, and she is an effective spokesperson for the rights of senior Americans. SARAH JESSICA PARKER, the star of the just concluded Sex and the City, is up for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Parker defied the "child actor curse" as she moved from young adolescent to adult parts — and there were no drug rehabs along the way. MARE WINNINGHAM, nomi- nated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law Order: SVU, converted to Judaism last year; see a profile on her in this week's JN, beginning on page 93. MARLEE MATLIN, the beautiful deaf actress, also is nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law 6- Order: SVU. Matlin frequently speaks (or "signs") to Jewish groups about growing up Jewish and about her work for the deaf and Jews in the deaf community. She can soon be seen on the big screen in the indie flick What the "Bleep" Do We Know!?. Jewish actors face off against each other in several categories. In the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series category are veterans WILLIAM SHATNER (The Practice) and MARTIN LANDAU (Without a Trace). In the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category, you'll find nominees BRAD GAR- RETT (Everybody Loves Raymond) and JEFFREY TAMBOR (Arrested Development). Up for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie are BEN SHENKMAN and JUSTIN KIRK (who is Jewish on his mother's side) for Angels in America. LARRY (Curb Your Enthusiasm) DAVID picked up several Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, while talented actor VICTOR GARBER (Alias) is the sole Jewish nominee in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category. Also worthy of note: BILLY CRYSTAL'S nomination for hosting the Oscars; the nomination of JON STEWART, as producer of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, for Outstanding Variety Series; LORNE MICHAELS' double nominations for producing Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Saturday Night Live, both up for Outstanding Variety Series; and MIKE NICHOLS' almost certain win as Outstanding Director of a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Angels in America. 1 7905 Haggerty Rd. • Northville Township • 248-675-0066 The Somerset Collection • Troy • 248-816-8000 pfchangs.corn GRAMMY AWARD MAR Briefly Noted SECAD BITTY SCHRAM, the pretty blonde actress who co-stars in the hit TV series Monk, will leave the show in January amid reports that a salary dis- pute was the real cause of her departure. Schram snared a Golden Globe nomination last year for Monk ... Veteran Bitty Schram: Jewish actor Leaving "Monk." CARL REIN- ER and young Jewish actor DARYL SABARA lend their voices to the new animated NBC series Father of the Pride, about a group of lions ... Spike TV has ordered 13 episodes of Howard Stern: The High School Years, an animated series that follows Stern through high school. Li 160itic OCAPCOA, Masonic Temple Theatre • October 5-10 Nate Bloom, the California-based editor ofwww.Jewhoo.com can be reached at Middle° ftheroad 1 @aol.com Tickets at the Fisher Theatre box office & all ticket-master outlets inc. Marshall Field's, charge-by-phone 248-645-6666, & ticketmaster.com 1 1/4,885500 Info 313-8721000 • NederlanderDelroil.com • Groups (20 or more) weekdays 313-8711132 ;,, tri a!!!!rd Federal vr.ft 9/10 2004 91