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September 27 • 2018
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The 70th Emmy awards, held last week,
saw Jewish folks clean up in the com-
edy categories and do well elsewhere.
Henry Winkler (Barry), 72, won the sup-
porting actor in a comedy series Emmy
and Alex Borstein (The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel), 47, won the supporting actress
in a comedy series award. The creator of
Mrs. Maisel, Amy Sherman-Palladino,
52, won three Emmys. Maisel won the
comedy series Emmy and, as a show
producer, she accepted the award.
Individually, she won as the director of
the best comedy episode (the Maisel
pilot) and best written comedy episode
(the Maisel pilot). The Maisel juggernaut
included Rachel Brosnahan, who won the
lead actress (comedy) award for playing
the Jewish Mrs. Maisel.
Joel Weisberg, 52, and Joel Fields,
50ish (The Americans), won the Emmy
for writing the best drama episode. I
recently learned that Fields’ late father
was Rabbi Harvey J. Fields, who served
as president of the Board of Rabbis of
Henry Winkler
Alex Borstein
Lorne Michaels
Southern California. The best drama
series Emmy went to Game of Thrones,
which is produced by, and frequently
written by David Benioff and D.B.
Weiss, both 47. Saturday Night Live won
the Emmy for best variety sketch series.
The award was accepted by Lorne
Michaels, 73, the creator and principal
producer of SNL.
Moving moments: (1) Henry Winkler
winning his first Emmy after five previ-
ous nominations. On stage, he said he
dreamed of being an actor when he was
7 years old living in New York City “with
short German Jewish parents who did
not want me to be an actor … I was 27
when I started doing ‘the Fonz.’ I’m now
72 and I’m standing right here in front
of you with [an Emmy]. Wow.” and (2)
Glenn Weiss, 57, who won an Emmy for
best direction of a variety special (The
Oscars), proposing marriage to his girl-
friend from the stage. She accepted and
joined him on stage. •