Film &amp; Television

'Pressure Cooker': 'Bon' Opportunities?

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If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen ... Yeah, right, you tell that to Wilma Stephenson. She filets, sautés and flambés students with that flame-thrower of a tongue she has developed during some 40 years of teaching culinary arts at Frankford High School. And now, her just desserts: The teacher with crème brûlée bragging rights and...

Film & Television

Road Trip With 'Tennessee' Written All Over It

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Michael Elkin

It's a long way from Tenafly to "Tennessee," but Adam Rothenberg has made it a southern comfort kind of trip. He's made the star trek triumphantly but the movie mileage he's traveled is even more impressive. At age 26, he was still at home, living in his parents' attic; now, just a handful of years later, he's on the TV...

Film & Television

Robin Hood of the Rx?

That's Mark Feuerstein, USA's 'concierge doctor'

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Michael Elkin

Doctor to the rich and ridiculous in the Hamptons, Hank Lawson hears naggings, not real needs, at the end of his stethoscope, even as he scopes out a new life amid the town's nouveau rich and risqué after being fired for ignoring a benefactor's braying needs at his former big-city hospital. Of course, if that pathetically rich patient hadn't died...

Film & Television

'Dream' On

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Michael Elkin

"In a Dream"? In a way, yes, avows Jeremy Yaches, the producer of the acclaimed documentary about the life and times, and tumult, of artist Isaiah Zagar, which had a nice run at the Ritz at the Bourse and is now headed to HBO this summer. The award-winning film is no dis of a dysfunctional family, but an appreciation of...

Film & Television

Two for the Ages

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Michael Elkin

You Oughtta Be in Pictures! At 4, Ella loves her dollys. But then, she also enjoys the pans and long shots and, oh, that catering table at the end of a long day's shoot. Steven Spiel-birth? Little Ella Rosenblatt is the focus of "Beginning Filmmaking," which begins and ends with the heart as a frame of reference. Take five? She...