I Arts & Entertainment WS Arquette, was raised in a mix of tradi- Ors I NateBloom special to the Jewish News .12 Golden Performers w The Golden Globes, airing 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16, on NBC are seen as 'a reasonable predictor. of the Oscars. (10 Here are the "on-camera" Jewish nomi- nees: In the feature film category, Gwyneth Paltrow, who was raised in her father's Jewish faith, is up for best actress for Proof Meanwhile, Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) and Scarlett Johansson (Match Point) Gwyneth compete for the best sup- Paltrow porting actress award. Reports just out say - Weisz and her fiance, Jewish film direc- tor Darren Aronofsky, are expecting their first child. The baby is due this summer. Zach Braff (Scrubs) competes against Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm) for the Globe forbest actor in a TV comedy Patricia Arquette (Medium) vies with Kyra Sedgwick (Closer) for best actress in a TV drama: Patricia, like her famous siblings, Rosanna and David tions, including her late mother's Jewish faith. However, it appears that only Rosanna (who had her only child with her Jewish ex-husband) firmly identifies as Jewish. Sedgwick was born to a Jewish mother and a Protestant father. The actress told author Abigail Pogrebin that her mother was a "self-hating" Jew and the pivotal event in her own Jewish identity came when her mother re- married a Jewish man who acquainted Kyra with the beauty of the Jewish faith. The actress firmly identifies as Jewish and celebrates Passover with her teenage children. (Her husband, actor Kevin Bacon, is a non-practicing Catholic.) Sedgwick confided to Pogrebin that she regretted not giving her children more of a Jewish religious background, but she felt she couldn't "change gears" some years into her marriage and alter the couple's understanding that their home would be essentially secular. A Little Nepotism Rob Reiner came in late as a replacement director for Rumor Has It, a film that had obvious script problems. The comedy, which opened Dec. 25, stars Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner and Shirley MacLaine,If you scan the film's Kyra ledgwic k credits, you'll see the busy character actor Jordan Lund in a supporting role. Lund, who is Reiner's brother-in-law, has had small roles in other Reiner pictures. A descendant of the Jordan Lund famous Italian 17th- century rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Lund is married to Rabbi Suzanne Singer, an Emmy- winning PBS producer who left TV a few years ago to study for the rab- binate. Her mother, a French Jew, sur- vived Auschwitz. Suzanne's sister, Michelle, is married to Rob Reiner, Michelle Singer, a photographer, met Reiner when he was directing When Harry Met Sally, and Reiner credits their romance with inspiring the film's happy ending, which wasn't in the original script. . Married since 1989, Rob and Michelle Reiner have three chil- dren and no prenuptial agree- ment. As Rob just rold a TV inter- viewer, "I don't have pre-nups. I fall in love and go for it." DVD Choices The weather outside is frightful, Kat so watching a recently released DVD might be delightful. Here are some choices with a Jewish con- nection: Murderball, says the Kansas City - Chronicle, "is a superb sports movie and a first-rate documentary. [Jewish filmmakers] Dana Adam Shapiro and Henry Alex Rubin's movie [about wheelchair-bound rugby players] has all the thrills, intrigue and insight of great fiction." The 40-Year-Old-Virgin finally gave director/co-writer Judd Apatow the hit that eluded him on TV. Jewish actors Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen have big sup- porting roles as the friends of star Steve Carrell, while Jewish teen actress Kat Dennings has a juicy part as co- star Catherine Keener's daughter. Judd Apatow If you like Virgin, check out Apatow's short-lived 2001 TV series about college life, Undeclared. The just-released 17-episode DVD includes a never-aired episode, and the humor is at the level of the best teen comedies, like Clueless. You might explore the sci-fi film adventure Serenity, with a Jewish Dennings wedding in space, featur- ing David Krumholtz. Coming out Tuesday, Jan. 3, is The Wedding Crashers. It includes a comic Jewish wedding sequence. Australian actress Isla Fisher, who has been studying to con- vert to Judaism, co-stars. . Miniseries follows storyteller Bruce Feller on a search for his biblical heroes. Curt Schleier Special to the Jewish News Bruce Feiler, far - left, and his expedition team plan their course travel while filming. 44 December 29 • 2005 4 IN rew Levin is delighted to be doing this interview "You're the first Jewish paper I've spoken to',' he says on the telephone from his Los Angeles office. "All I've done so far is interviews with the Christian press. . The interviews are about Walking the Bible, a three-part PBS miniseries based on Bruce Feiler's bestselling book of the same name, published by HarperCollins. • It takes viewers to the locations mentioned in the first five books of the Bible — from Genesis ("In the beginning") in Mesopotamia (now part of Turkey) to Exodus. There are stops along the way at the top of Mt. Ararat (where, some say, Noah's Ark landed) and in Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and Israel. Levin, 52, the series' executive producer, is an Emmy award-win- ning documentarian. This project came about after a friend recom- mended that he read Feller's best- selling book. "After I read it, I thought I could really make this into a series',' he