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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

New 'Bachelor'
The last season of ABC's popular
reality show The Bachelorette
ended with heartbreak for hand-
some Seattle
bachelor Jason
Mesnick, 32.
Bachelorette
DeAnna Pappas
winnowed out 25
suitors before
the final show.
Jason Mesnick She then had to
choose between
marriage proposals from Mesnick
and Jesse Csincsak, a pro snow-
boarder. She picked Csincsak, to
whom she is now engaged.
But Mesnick, a personable,
divorced single dad of a 3-year-
old son, was a fan favorite; and
so ABC has brought him back as
the sole male contestant on the
new season of The Bachelor, which
begins airing 8 p.m. Monday, Jan.
5.
Mesnick has already let the cat
out of the bag: He told People
magazine that his stint on The
Bachelor will end with him happily
engaged. But we don't know to
which bachelorette.
Born in Cleveland, Mesnick spoke
to the Cleveland Jewish News
last summer. The estate-planning
executive told the paper he was a
bar mitzvah and that while he isn't
very religious, he celebrates Jewish
holidays with his extended family.
Religion, he said, came up briefly
in The Bachelorette when Pappas,
who is Greek Orthodox, met his
parents in Seattle and asked a few
questions about Judaism and reli-
gion. But, he added, he didn't think

Bedlam Players, and decided to take
comedy classes just for fun.
"I love the age differences in The
Generation Gap," Cohen says. "I think
it makes us unique and interesting in
the improv we de
With all the humorous skits, done
for free, Werthmann and Fox have
developed a serious goal — to find
paying performance projects.
"Alan and I have signed up with
talent agencies;' Werthmann explains.

religion was the deal breaker.

Videos Of Interest
Now showing on YouTube are two
interesting videos: "All I Want for
Christmas Is – Jews" and a very
nice Turner Classic Movies channel
tribute to notable persons in the
movies who died in 2008.
"All I Want" is a little politically
incorrect but very professionally
done comedic satire of Mariah
Carey's hit song "All I Want for
Christmas Is You." The Carey imi-
tator in the parody video names a
bunch of important Jewish enter-
tainment figures she'd like to be
with for Christmas. Go to tinyurl.
com/5jet7d.
About a third of the persons
in the TCM video are Jewish
and include screenwriters Irving
Brecher and Abby Mann, film
director Jules
Dassin, producer
Charles Joffe,
choreographer
Michael Kidd,
comedian Harvey
Korman, actor
Paul Newman,
actress Suzanne Michael Kidd
Pleshette,
director-actor
Sydney Pollack,
actress Estelle
Reiner, com-
poser Leonard
Rosenman and
special effects
whiz Stan
Suzanne
Winston.
Pleshette
If you don't
recognize any of
the above names, simply Google
them and you'll find out they
were all "biggies." Go to tinyurl.
com/5crbcs.

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The Generation Gap appears
8 p.m. Wednesdays at the Go
Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 E.
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(248) 327-0575 or
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