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New Trek

412 The new Star Trek prequel, simply

43) titled Star Trek, opens Friday, May

vim 8. Directed by J.J. Abrams (co-

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il' creator/co-writer of the TV series
Alias, Lost and Fringe), the film
features mostly young actors who
play the familiar Star Trek charac-
ters as they first meet and embark
on their early space adventures.
Portraying the Russian Pavel
Chekov is Anton
Yelchin, 20, whose
parents, both top figure
skaters, boldly left a
good life in the Soviet
Union in 1989 to seek a
better life in America.
Yelchin follows in the
Anton Yelchin
footsteps of Walter
Koenig, 73, who cre-
ated the role of Chekov. In the
1920s, Koenig's Jewish parents left
Lithuania, then part of the Soviet
Union, for America.
Winona Ryder, 37, plays the
human mother of the half-Vulcan
Spock. Leonard Nimoy, 78, who
created the role of Spock, is the
only original cast member in the
new film, playing a cameo.
Nimoy also will guest star in the
season finale of Fringe at 9 p.m.
Tuesday, May 12, on FOX. He'll play
William Bell, a mysterious scientist,
who'll show up next season.

Foxy Lady

Michael J. Fox, 47, and his actress
wife Tracy Pollan, 48, are mem-
bers of a Manhattan Reform syna-
gogue, and their four children have
been raised Jewish — though Fox
never converted.
In early 2008, the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations

presented Fox with its Bearer
of Light Award for his work with
Parkinson's disease, with which he
was diagnosed at age 30. He hosts
the ABC documentary Michael J.
Fox: Adventures
of an Incurable
Optimist 10 p.m.
Thursday, May 7.
Fox traveled the
globe to explore
the strength of
Fox & Pollan
hope, talking to
both famous and everyday people.
Pollan, meanwhile, starred last
month in Lifetime's The Natalee
Holloway Story, as Natalee's
mother; she is in the midst of a
three-episode arc on NBC's Medium,
starring Patricia Arquette, as a
"corporate intuitionist." The last
episode of the season finale airs
10 p.m. Monday, May 11. Jeffrey
Tambor co-stars.

Shmata Show

Bravo cable TV had a hit with
Project Runway, which began airing
in 2004 and will move to Lifetime
cable this summer. Meanwhile,
Bravo has created its own Runway
knockoff, The Fashion Show, which
premieres 10 p.m. Thursday, May 7.
It has 15 designers competing
for a $125,000 prize and a chance
to have their designs marketed in
stores. It will run for 10 weeks.
Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi,
47, is the host of the Bravo series
and a judge. The other
judges are singer-actress
Kelly Rowland and Fern
Mallis, 67, a vice president
of IMG Fashion and the
"organizer/queen" of New
York City's Fashion Week.
She also has helped put
on various Jewish cultural
Fern Mallis
events in New York.

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