Does Ari's (Emanuel) Mom Have A Secret Recipe? (Rahm Emanuel and Moore's F 9/11)

Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily ^ | Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 | Nikke Finke

[Chgogal]

Endeavor Agency's Ari Emanuel talks several times a day to his brother, U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who is masterminding the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's midterm elections. There's a well-reported piece on Rahm in today's Washington Post (Fighting For The Spoils) that mentions Ari. "They all play to win, those Emanuel boys. Rahm (left) is the middle son of three. His big brother, Ezekiel, is a Harvard oncologist and bioethicist. Younger brother Ari (below) is a high-flying agent in Los Angeles. He made news recently as the only major agent to publicly call for an industrywide shunning of Mel Gibson following the actor's drunken, anti-Semitic tirade. Their baby sister, Shoshana, is a student. Yes, the folks are mighty proud, Rahm says. How many mothers have two children who have partly inspired TV characters (Josh Lyman on The West Wing for Rahm, Ari Gold on Entourage for Ari)? 'People ask me what my mother put in the soup,' says Ari, who talks with Rahm two or three times a day. 'I wish I knew. I have three boys of my own.' Their father is a Jerusalem-born pediatrician who came to the United States after working for the pre-independence Israeli underground. In Chicago, he met Emanuel's mother, an X-ray technician and daughter of a local union organizer who ended up in more than one paddy wagon as a protester in the 1960s. 'Politics and the civil rights movement were very much a part of our family life," says Ezekiel. "We went on Martin Luther King's march on Cicero with my mom.'" After November 7th, Rahm will move to Hollywood and help mastermind the "freeing" of clients from Endeavor's rival agencies. Just kidding.

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http://www.theneweditor.com/archives050105050405.html

"Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Rahm Emanuel (IL) reported a net worth of at least $9 million, with annual income in interest and dividends of almost $400,000 per year. (Rep. Emanuel, who made almost $10 million in 2002, accumulated the bulk of his net worth between 1999-2002 after serving in the Clinton Administration, when, with no experience in the field, he was hired as an investment banker at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. There is nothing illegal in this, as many trade-off of previous government contacts and reap big rewards. Besides, benefiting from politics seems to run in Emanuel's family: his brother Ari was filmmaker Michael Moore's agent for the movie "Fahrenheit 9/11.")"

Dated May 4, 2005

[Chgogal]

Rahm


and brother Ari

[LibFreeOrDie]

Ari Emanuel is the model for the hyper Hollywood agent in HBO's "Entourage".

http://www.hbo.com/entourage/cast/character/ari.html

http://www.letshugitoutbitch.com/

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Fighting for The Spoils

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/21/AR2006102101049_pf.html

"They all play to win, those Emanuel boys. Rahm is the middle son of three. His big brother, Ezekiel, is a Harvard oncologist and bioethicist. Younger brother Ari is a high-flying agent in Los Angeles. He made news recently as the only major agent to publicly call for an industrywide shunning of Mel Gibson following the actor's drunken, anti-Semitic tirade. Their baby sister, Shoshana, is a student.

Yes, the folks are mighty proud, Rahm says. How many mothers have two children who have partly inspired TV characters (Josh Lyman on "The West Wing" for Rahm, Ari Gold on "Entourage" for Ari)?

"People ask me what my mother put in the soup," says Ari, who talks with Rahm two or three times a day. "I wish I knew. I have three boys of my own."

Their father is a Jerusalem-born pediatrician who came to the United States after working for the pre-independence Israeli underground. In Chicago, he met Emanuel's mother, an X-ray technician and daughter of a local union organizer who ended up in more than one paddy wagon as a protester in the 1960s. "Politics and the civil rights movement were very much a part of our family life," says Ezekiel. "We went on Martin Luther King's march on Cicero with my mom."

When Rahm was 17, he cut his finger on a meat slicer at Arby's, where he worked a summer job. It became infected, the infection spread to the bone, and a cut grew into a potentially life-threatening condition. Doctors eventually amputated the finger, and Emanuel spent eight weeks in the hospital. He says the experience made him more focused for college and beyond.

"He blames me for ending up at Sarah Lawrence," says Ezekiel, who thought a small Eastern college would suit his brother better than a big school. "But he loved it. He loved being around all those women."

The young Rahm wasn't particularly political. That passion emerged during college when he starting working with the advocacy group Common Cause. Later, he landed on a few campaigns, including Paul Simon's successful first Senate race in 1984. Almost immediately Emanuel proved a peerless fundraiser. Richard M. Daley hired him to dial up dollars for his successful mayoral run in 1989. Two years later, Emanuel got a job in the soon-to-be-legendary "War Room" of Clinton's upstart presidential campaign in Little Rock."

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I'm not sure what the mystery is here about some 'secret recipe'. Apparently, nobody in that newsroom had a Jewish mother (well, apparently that is true or they wouldn't be reporters since those jobs don't make much money. I nixed J school for our kid when he was a teenager). Is this some kind of novel idea that Jewish mothers put insanely high demands on their sons to be successful? This certainly isn't a secret in the Jewish community. Just look at how many neurotic comedians there are....

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"Manufacturing Dissent": Turning the lens on Michael Moore http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/23/news/moore.php





"But according to Caine, 46, an Ohio-born journalist and cameraman, the freewheeling persona cultivated by Moore, and the free-thinking rhetoric expounded by his friends and associates were not quite what they encountered when they decided to examine his work. "As investigative documentarists we always thought we could look at anything we wanted," Caine said. "But when we turned the cameras on one of the leading figures in our own industry, the people we wanted to talk to were like: 'What are you doing? Why are you throwing stones at the parade leader?'"


Melnyk added, "We were very lonely."


Their film "Manufacturing Dissent" will have its premiere on March 10 at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. To say it sheds an unflattering light on Moore — whose work includes the hit "Fahrenheit 9/11" and the Oscar-winning "Bowling for Columbine" — would be an understatement.


Moore, who was reportedly in London finishing "Sicko," a planned exposé of the American health care system, did not respond to voice mail, e-mail messages or third-party requests for an interview; a spokeswoman for the Weinstein Company, the distributor of "Sicko," said Moore had no comment on "Manufacturing Dissent," and referred inquiries to a Web address, www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/ f911reader/index.php?id=16as.


That link contains a refutation of a number of complaints taken up by conservatives regarding "Fahrenheit 9/11," but the Melnyk-Caine movie isn't really about that. "We didn't want to refute anything," Melnyk said. "We just wanted to take a look at Michael Moore and his films. It was only by talking to people that we found out this other stuff."


In part the "stuff" amounts to a catalogue of alleged errors — both of omission and commission — in Moore's films, beginning with his 1989 debut, "Roger & Me." That film largely revolved around Moore's fruitless attempts to interview Roger Smith, then the chairman of General Motors, after his company closed plants in Moore's birthplace, Flint, Michigan: an interview that occurred, Melnyk and Caine said, although Moore left it on the cutting-room floor."

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Interview with 'Manufacturing Dissent' Filmmakers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp9s7IfwJ50

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IRAQI GROUP USES MICHAEL MOORE FILM TO MOCK BUSH (Scenes From Farenheit 9/11)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685848/posts

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has produced an elaborate video of what it said were attacks on U.S. troops, in the latest example of the increasingly sophisticated propaganda war being waged by Iraqi insurgents.

"The Code of Silence" was posted on the Internet by the Rashedeen Army, thought to be a relatively small Sunni group which has produced videos in the past of attacks it claims to have carried out.

At almost an hour in length, it is the longest and most professionally made of recent postings by mainly Sunni militant and insurgent groups fighting the U.S.-backed government.


The U.S. military said earlier this week that recent intelligence indicated al Qaeda in Iraq was refining its strategy by producing propaganda and adding a political base to its violent campaign of suicide bombings.

Lifting scenes from Michael Moore's anti-war film "Fahrenheit 9/11", Rashedeen's narrator taunts President Bush in softly spoken English over graphic images of Humvees being blown up by roadside bombs, and purportedly dead U.S. troops.

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Cannoneer No. 4 - This is how deep the propaganda war against the American people goes.

Phsstpok - FYI

Peach and Mo1 - you may want to file this somewhere.

Hope all others will find this interesting.

[Peach]

These people are making reporters look like saints. It's going to be an uphill battle against the DNC and media barrage.

Thanks for the ping, Chgogal.

[Chgogal]

You may find this interesting.

If you have a Chicago/Illinois ping list, please ping them all. :)

I would appreciate it. Thank You!

[Hardastarboard]

I wonder if Hillary has ever called Rahm a "f***ing Jew b@st@rd"?

[NY Attitude]

Thanks for the ping.

[toddlintown]

I read this article months ago. It still sucks.

[Chgogal]

You knew that Rahm's brother was Micheal Moore's agent for F 9/11?

[toddlintown]

"You knew that Rahm's brother was Micheal Moore's agent for F 9/11?"

I have a comment here except I'd be banned.

[Chgogal]

I never knew about the connection between Ari, Rahm, Hollywood and F 9/11.

[Chgogal]

They ban you for saying "yes", "no" or "maybe"????

: )

[freema]

If his Daddy fought for Pre-Independent Israel, I would love to get his thoughts on Mamma and the boys. Bet he figured all wrong on Mamma.

When do you think this poster last smoked weed? www.rense.com/general74/demoem.htm

[CyberAnt]

Oh yes, we need to negotiate with those kind of people .. sure!