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Hank Azaria plays a troubled shrink in Showtime's drama series H4' pre- miering Nov. 7; he'll also play an ex- child actor in the dark comedy Eulogy this fall. ... Dan Futterman returns to Judging Amy as Amy's brother Vincent this season, premiering 10 p.m. Sept. 28 on CBS. MOVIES e SPECIALS Don Rickles co-stars with William H. Macy in the TNT drama The Wool Cap (Nov. 21). ... Adam Goldberg is a New Orleans detective in USA's modern take on Frankenstein (Oct. 10). ... Richard Dreyfuss turns up in PBS's Cop Shop, two filmed teleplays (Oct. 6). ... ER's Noah Wyle portrays the title role in The Librarian on TNT (Dec. 5). ... Steve Guttenberg stars in the Hallmark Channel romantic comedy Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus (Dec. 11). ... Fran Drescher reassembles cast mates on Lifetime for The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember (Dec. 6). ii Also: NORTHVILLE • 248-735-0101 • CLINTON TOWNSHIP • 586-5353 • SHELBY TOWNSHIP • 586-731-6161 LAST SEASON from 505 S. Lafayette Royal Oak MI 48067 Call Simone at: 248.544.7373 Website: simonevitale.com ", Email: info@simonevitale.com 792850 ?:6 0V,i4fAr 5ho Online the Easy Way... 9/17 2004 64 www.jewish.com page 63 cuter than Woody Allen. She didn't realize I wanted to be Woody Allen." After graduating from Hofstra University on Long Island, N.Y., he gave acting a try, appearing in a cou- ple of Off-Broadway plays and attracting the attention of an agent. "He saw me and said, 'If you come to L.A., you'll never stop working.' Like a shmuck, I went to L.A. and I never started working. I started writ- ing because I had to do something." A high-school friend, Barry Kirschenbaum, had preceded him to the West Coast and got Rosenthal some television assignments. He even- tually ended up a supervising produc- er on Down the Shore and the much longer-lived Coach before being intro- duced to Romano and creating Everybody Loves Raymond around him. Rosenthal grew up in a Conservative household and was a bar mitzvah. And right after that, he vowed never to set foot in a temple again." He finds it ironic that he somehow managed to "find my way back." He married Monica Horan, a woman he met in college, in 1990. She convert- ed, and they now send their two chil- dren to a Jewish day school. In fact, she recently won the Tree of Life (( Award from the Jewish National Fund. If the name Monica Horan is famil- iar to Raymond viewers, it's because she plays Amy, Ray's new sister-in- law. "I was going to put whomever I married into whatever show I was doing," Rosenthal jokes. Although the show technically ends next spring, it will live on. It is already ubiquitous in syndication. "It was on five times yesterday," Rosenthal proudly proclaims. Moreover, on Sept. 14, the first of a series of ELR DVDs, Everybody Loves Raymond The Complete First Season was released. There's also a coffee- table book, Everybody Loves Raymond: Our Family Album (Pocket Books; $19.95), published this month. So what are Max and wife Helen Rosenthal the proudest of? The show? Their own appearances on it? Perhaps the book? "That's all great," Rosenthal says. "But the fact that I'm getting paid for a job is their biggest thrill." II The ninth season of Everybody Loves Raymond premieres 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20, on CBS.