The era that made movie history  Before actors like James
Franco, Natalie Portman, and Adam Sandler became A-list stars,
Dustin Hoffman, Elliott Gould, and Barbra Streisand led the way
as Jewish American pioneers in film. Hollywood’s “Jew Wave,” a
new series co-programmed by Scott Foundas and the Voice’s own J.
Hoberman, highlights films such as Annie Hall, Funny Girl, and
The Heartbreak Kid, among others, and explores the surge of
Jewish-American culture that infiltrated Hollywood in the late
’60s and early ’70s, forever changing the landscape of
mainstream American movies. Hoberman attributes it in part to
the “unembarrassed confidence of second- and third-generation
American Jews, particularly those who were college-educated,”
and “the decline of the WASP physical ideal and shift in
American standards of beauty or sexual attractiveness.” Mondays-
Sundays. Starts: Nov. 3. Continues through Nov. 13, 2011  My
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