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Jewish. She understands
Hebrew but isn’t fluent.
SUPPORTING ACTOR
IN A COMEDY SERIES
Henry Winkler, 76, who had
a great third season on Barry
(HBO), is the heavy favor-
ite to win. There is a small
chance that Brett Goldstein,
42, a Ted Lasso (Apple) actor
and writer, will pull off an
upset and win his second
Emmy in this category.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS,
COMEDY SERIES
Alex Borstein, 51 (Mrs.
Maisel, Amazon Prime)
and Hannah Einbinder, 27
(Hacks, HBO) compete with
six other actresses. Borstein
already won an Emmy in this category and
is a big longshot. Einbinder is one of three
actresses rated “favorites.” Two actresses
on the new ABC series Abbott Elementary
are Einbinder’s real competition.
Einbinder’s parents are Jewish, and she
often talks about being Jewish. Her moth-
er is Laraine Newman, 70, an original SNL
cast member.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS,
DRAMA SERIES
Patricia Arquette, 54, (Severance) and
Julia Garner (Ozark) vie in this category.
Arquette is a big longshot. Garner and
three other actresses are “in the running”
and any one of the four could win.
Arquette is the daughter of a Jewish
mother and a non-Jewish father. She
was raised in a hodgepodge of religious
traditions and has been basically secular
as an adult. Her siblings, actors Rosanna
Arquette, 63, and David Arquette, 50,
have, in different ways, embraced their
Jewish background as adults.
DIRECTING, LIMITED SERIES
Directing awards are rarely handicapped
by journalists, and there is no “consensus”
favorite in any directing category.
Danny Strong, 48 (Dopesick) vies with
Michael Showalter, 52 (The Dropout).
Both are former actors who
became directors. Strong is
also nominated for writing
Dopesick. This is a “weird”
year: Strong is the only nom-
inee, in any writing category,
that I am sure is Jewish.
DIRECTING,
DRAMA SERIES
Ben Stiller, 56, Severance.
BEST SHOWS
Every show has a number of
producers (often five or more)
who will get an Emmy if their
show wins. My practice is to
only highlight shows in which
the producer was also a creator
of the series. In other words,
the person(s) who count the
most.
BEST COMEDY SERIES
As I said above, all the “best” show cate-
gories have 10 nominees. In this category,
three shows have “confirmed” Jewish
creators/producers. Sadly, none of the
series mentioned just below are predicted
to win.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, as just about
everyone knows, is about a fictional Jewish
comedian. It was created by
Amy Sherman-Palladino, 56,
and her (non-Jewish) husband,
Daniel Palladino. Amy’s father
was Jewish. She was raised
“Jewish light.”
Curb Your Enthusiasm
(HBO) was created by Larry
David, 75, the series’ star. Curb
and Maisel compete with
What We Do in the Shadows,
(FX) co-created by New
Zealander Taika Waititi 47,
who self-identifies as Jewish,
although he had “only” one
Jewish grandparent.
Note: I am pretty sure that
John Robert Hoffman, who
co-created another nominee,
Only Murders in the Building
(Hulu) is Jewish. But he’s very
hard to “verify.”
BEST DRAMA SERIES
Euphoria (HBO) is an American teen
series created by and principally written
by Sam Levinson, 37 (the son of Oscar-
winning director Barry Levinson, 80). It’s
based on the Israeli miniseries of the same
name created by Ron Leshem, 45, and
Daphna Levin, 54. (This series is an Emmy
longshot. Favorites are Squid Game and
Succession).
BEST LIMITED SERIES
Dopesick was created by Danny Strong.
It is the favorite to win (The Dropout is a
possibility).
A longshot is Pam & Tommy (Hulu).
It follows actress Pam Anderson and her
hubbie, rock musician Tommy Lee, as they
cope with the scandal that followed the
theft and release of a private sex video they
made.
The series was written and produced
by Robert Siegel, 51. He was the subject
of a NY Times profile when he married
comedic voice actress Jen Cohn, now 51,
in a Jewish ceremony. Siegel, a University
of Michigan grad, was the editor of the
Onion, the satirical newspaper, before
becoming a screenwriter.
OUTSTANDING LIVE SPECIAL
Glenn Weiss, 61, and Ricky Kirshner,
60ish, co-produced The
Tony Awards: Broadway’s
Back! (CBS). Kirshner is
the son of the late media
mogul Don Kirshner. Older
readers might remember
the ABC late-night series
Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert,
which he hosted. Ricky
hosted during its last year
(1981).
But how can they not give
this Emmy to the legendary
Norman Lear, who
co-produced Live in Front
of a Studio Audience: The
Facts of Life and Diff’rent
Strokes (ABC). If Lear wins,
he will be the first 100-year-
old Emmy winner!
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