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‘Glee’ Star Scores Golden Globe Nod
Michele is Jewish, but so is her character
Congratulations to Lea Michele (née Lea Michele Sarfati), the star of Fox’s Glee, on her Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a TV Comedy. In Tablet Magazine, Jeremy Dauber celebrated Glee, an hour-long comedy with musical numbers, as “the most bizarre, delirious, delightful show currently airing on network television.” In particular, Dauber praised one plot-line in which a Jewish football star falls for a Jewish theater chick—played by Michele—and serenades her with Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” (see below!). It is important, Dauber suggested, for a show all about high school outsiders to include Jewish characters (and even have them portrayed by Jewish actors, like Michele): “They’re part of the story of minority America muscling their way, in their difference, to center stage, to the heart of American entertainment.”
Golden Globe Nominations Announced! [Vulture]
Related: The Outsiders [Tablet]
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