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One of Seinfeld’s very best episodes found the gang ditching New York City and venturing upstate for a weekend at Susan’s father’s cabin. Along the way, they stop over at a nondescript small town to visit a “Bubble Boy” on his birthday — although he turns out to be a vulgar young man (voiced by adult comedian Jon Hayman) who lives behind a plastic divider due to an unspecified medical condition.

The Bubble Boy has to be rushed to the hospital after getting into a physical fight with George over a game of Trivial Pursuit. In response to the history question “Who invaded Spain in the 8th century?,” the Bubble Boy confidently answered “The Moors.” But George claimed that he was wrong, citing the answer on the card, which clearly read “The Moops.”

Despite the fact that this was obviously a misprint, George was still defending his “Moops...

Updated with more signatories: Reaction continues to The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech after his film won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film this month.

Some 1,215 Jewish show business professionals now have signed a letter denouncing the filmmaker’s speech, in which he decried the “dehumanization” of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. See the updated full list below.

“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination,” the letter states (read it in full in full below).

This list includes among its signatories Eli Roth and Amy Sherman-Palladino, Amy Pascal, Debra Messing, Gail Berman, Hawk Koch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gary Barber, Lawrence Bender, Tovah Feldshuh and Rod Lurie.

You can watch Glazer’s speech here,...

Gail Berman’s four-decade-plus career has taken her from Broadway to the big screen and back again, with stints as a studio chief and a new media entrepreneur in between.

“I’m your pivot girl,” says Berman, who last year received nominations for both a best picture Oscar (“Elvis”) and a comedy series Emmy (Netflix’s “Wednesday”). “Every five years, I have to do something else. It’s just my nature.”

Berman scored her first producing credit at the age of 23 when she and her former U. of Maryland classmate Susan R. Rose brought to Broadway a production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” After a decade-long run in the theater biz, burned out on raising money, she took a job as an associate producer for HBO’s new sister outlet, the Comedy Channel.

“I’d never worked in television ever, not even really thought about it much,...

Masters Of Sex alum Michael Sheen has been tapped to star opposite Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo and Rose Leslie on the upcoming third season of the CBS All Access legal drama series The Good Fight, set to premiere in early 2019.

In a one-year deal, he will play Roland Blum, a brilliant, charismatic and Machiavellian lawyer. He is a man of appetites – drugs, sex, you name it – who’s far more interested in winning than the niceties of following the law.

Sheen also joins The Good Fight series regulars Audra McDonald, Sarah Steele, Michael Boatman, Nyambi Nyambi and Delroy Lindo.

In Season 3, the resistance does. Diane Lockhart (Baranski) tries to figure out whether you can resist a crazy administration without going crazy yourself, while Adrian Boseman (Lindo) and Liz Reddick-Lawrence (McDonald) struggle with a new post-factual world where the lawyer who tells the best story triumphs over the lawyer with the best facts.

Michael Eisner’s Vuguru and BermanBraun are partnering on the comedy web series Greetings From Home that launches on AOL on October 1. The 12-episode series is a humorous look at a military dad who’s raising two unruly teens while mom is deployed overseas. It was directed by Jared Drake and written by Bill Rosenthal, Bill Masters, and Michael Davidoff. BermanBraun’s Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun executive produced. Here’s the exclusive trailer:...

The annual Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Master Class, set for July 21-31 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, will include classes and special events featuring "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star, CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassle, TV producer Gail Berman, writer Bill Masters, writer Sarah Treem, director Jerry Levine and talent manager Danny Sussman, among others.

A project of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, the program brings together entertainment professionals from L.A. with their counterparts in Tel Aviv.

The event is a collaboration between the Tel Aviv - Los Angeles Partnership, Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv Cinematheque to enrich and inspire young professionals in the fields of film, television and new media.

This year's program focuses on TV in the wake of several Israeli TV programs having been adapted into the U.S. series "In Treatment" and "Touch Away" on HBO and "Lodaded" on Fox.

Topics will include: Film and television development,...

Comedian Marc Maron has inked a development deal with 20th Century Fox Television to develop and star in a comedy series project targeted for fall 2003, which has been set up at Fox Broadcasting Co. Writer Bill Masters (Murphy Brown) is set to pen the script for the show, which will be based on Maron's stand-up act and focus on a dysfunctional family. "I've made a lot of changes in my life," Maron said. "My personal demons are finally under control and behaving. Let's see if they can behave themselves around my family -- the people who helped create them." Fox has given a script commitment to the project, which Masters will executive produce and Maron will produce.