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George Christy Roger Corman
Cantor Harris Shore with Rabbi Lynn Brody Slome
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Phil and Kellie Krevoy with daughters Phebie and Jillian.
Reni Belzberg is Susie’s mom
Sophia Krevoy was called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah this week. She is flanked by her dad, producer Brad Krevoy, CEO of MPCA, and mom Susie.
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happens at parties.” A truism expounded by Jane Austen in one of her novels. The good news happened the evening of Sophia Krevoy’s call to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah, when her parents Susie and Brad Krevoy respected Sophia’s wishes. She had asked for a gathering of only 50 for her Bat Mitzvah at the Krevoy residence, the Santa Monica manorial estate previously owned by Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards.
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he good news? Dad Brad announced that he’s acquired the worldwide rights to The Saint, the long-running hip television series from the ’60s starring Roger Moore as the latter-day Robin Hood detective. A “James Bond without the gadgets, an international rogue,” The Saint had viewers glued to the tube to check out his disguises while he foiled criminal after criminal. Prior to the filming in 1962, the Jaguar employees went on strike, with Roger offering his Volvo convertible as The Saint’s signature car. Volvo profits suddenly climbed around the world. Brad informs that his casting’s in progress, with preference for a charming Brit actor who may not be known.
directing (as before).
Cecile and Norm Krevoy are Brad’s parents Sophia’s sisters Alexandra and Olivia
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he celebrated Ken Watanabe will appear in Brad’s 29 Days, playing the humanitarian Japanese ambassador to Lithuania who helped 4,000 Jews escape to Japan during World War II. And Nicolas Cage is set for Our Father, as an FBI undercover agent who sires a child in the Ghetto. Additionally, an exciting project with a leading actress remains under wraps.
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rad and Susie are exceptional hosts, with Susie masterfully organizing the myriad details of Sophia’s Bat Mitzvah, with an assist from party planner Debra Parr. Susie reconfigured the front room for the religious ceremony – Rabbi Lynn Brody Slome officiated, with support from cantor Harris Shore.
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ow, do you believe I’m a rabbi?” smiled the Boston-born Rabbi Lynn before the service. We had met during Corinna Fields’ annual midsummer fetes in Beverly Hills, where we danced around the clock. We were in disbelief that she was, indeed, a Rabbi (a Miss America beauty, if you will, among our rabbinical scholars). She noted that the first Bat Mitzvah occurred in mong Brad’s many films 1922. Bar Mitzvahs, which with his Motion Picture honor males only, date back to Corporation of America is the the 14th century. acclaimed production of HBO’s Taking Chance starring n her speech, Sophia Kevin Bacon, who won a acknowledged that the fight for Golden Globe, and the block- tolerance and acceptance conbuster comedy Dumb And tinues, shocked as she was this Dumber starring Jeff Daniels past summer by a red bold and Jim Carrey. Brad’s devel- Swastika spray-painted on a oping the sequel, with Jeff and Ron Herman store. “Another Jim on board and the Farrelly Swastika was on a house along brothers, Peter and Bobby, my street … I was sick to my stomach to think that in this 21st century people do such Page 6 | January 27, 2012
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