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Celebrity Jews

Horsing Around

JERRY MOSS will be in Baltimore

Kentucky Derby." Jerry Moss, of
course, is Burt's friend of 45-plus
years.

this weekend to watch his Kentucky
Derby winning horse, Giacomo, run
in the Preakness, the second leg of rac-
Photographer Gets Filmed
ing's Triple Crown.
Moss, 70, grew up a poor boy in the Now shooting in New York is Fur, a
bio-pic on the life of famous Jewish
Bronx. In the early 1960s, he moved
photographer DIANE ARBUS, who
to Los Angeles and teamed up with
died in 1971. (The title almost cer-
trumpet player HERB ALPERT, who
tainly comes from the fact that Arbus'
also is Jewish, to form A&M records.
parents became wealthy selling fur
The duo became very wealthy on the
coats.)
strength of Alpert's Tijuana Brass hits
Starring as Arbus is Nicole Kidman,
and the many other top acts they
a self-proclaimed Arbus fan. No
recorded before they sold the label in
doubt, without a big name like
1990. (Moss' many charities include
Kidman, this "small film," as Kidman
STEVEN SPIELBERG's Shoah
Foundation).
New York DJ MIKE McCANN
tells me he saw BURT
BACHARACH perform right after
the derby and that Bacharach excited-
ly told the audience: "Many years ago,
I was a $50-a-week songwriter in New
York and in the same building worked
a young stockroom clerk who became
my friend. He left New York to make
records in a garage with some guy
named Herb Alpert, and today his
Diane Arbus: Nicole Kidman plays
horse, a 50-1 underdog, won the
her in an upcoming film.

herself calls it, wouldn't have been
made.
Co-star Robert Downey, Jr., who's
calling himself Buddhist and Jewish
these days by virtue of a Jewish grand-
father, plays a character that seems to
be based on famous Jewish photogra-
phers MARVIN ISRAEL and
RICHARD AVEDON, both of
whom were close to Arbus.

With A Name Like Abrams

Even if you didn't know his name, you
knew his voice. MASON ADAMS, a
veteran character actor who died last
month at age 86, had a 30-year gig
doing Smucker's ads. It was Adams'
gravelly voice saying that famous
trademark line: "With a name like
Smucker's, it has to be good." Adams
is also remembered for his co-starring
role as Charlie Hume, a newspaper
managing editor on Lou Grant, the hit
TNT show.
Obits reported that the actor, who
was born Mason Abrams in Brooklyn,
was survived by MARGOT FEIN-
BERG, his wife of 37 years.

Wynning Party

Don't recall ever seeing so many
Jewish celebs reported at a party as
came to STEVE WYNN's recent
opening gala for his multi-billion dol-
lar Las Vegas palace, The Wynn.
Among others: STEVEN SPIEL-
BERG and wife KATE CAPSHAW;

STEVE LAWRENCE; LES
MOONVES, head of CBS; song-
writer CAROLE BAYER SAGER and
ex-husband BURT BACHARACH;
billionaires CARL ICAHN and
BARRY DILLER; MAURY POVICH
and wife CONNIE CHUNG (she

converted to Judaism); record exec

CLIVE DAVIS; BARBARA WAL-
TERS; fashion designer DONNA
KARAN; director WILLIAM
FRIEDKEN and his wife, SHERRY
LANSING, until recently head of

Paramount.
By the way, this party was for the
"older" set. Director BRETT RAT-
NER was in the process of putting
together a similar "Wynn" party for
younger celebs.

Nate Bloom is the California-based edi-
tor or www.jewhoo.com.

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