Not your stereotypical starlet, Glee’s LEA MICHELE prefers reality TV to nights on the town and calls kissing Ashton Kutcher “child’s play.”
joe yogerst talks to her about Broadway, Barbra and being different
 

TONIGHT IS THE night for anyone in the music business – the eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. But rather than flitting in and out of the glam parties scattered around town, Lea Michele Sarfati – to use her full name – is having a quiet dinner with her father, who’s visiting from New York. And in case you think that’s an aberration, consider that the previous weekend, the paparazzi snapped Michele emerging from a Beverly Hills salon with none other than…her mother. That … Read the rest

Glee’s Lea Michele might be the tiniest person in Hollywood (she’s 5’2”!), but make no mistake, she will take over the world, one show tune—and life goal—at a time.

On a sweltering late-summer morning, with her hit show on hiatus before its second season, actress Lea Michele walks into Mud, a cool New York City coffee shop. She’s wearing a bright orange slipdress and sandals. With her long brown hair piled on her head, she could be just another East Village hipster chick. But how many hipsters have been nominated for an Emmy? And how many of them carry a beautiful, loud-enough-to-break-glass voice in such an itty-bitty package?

Born in the Bronx and raised in New Jersey, Lea Michele Sarfati, … Read the rest

Yes, “On the Scene” is sweet on a number of Jewish beauties — inside and out — this sweetheart of a Valentine’s Day. And so, seemingly, is the rest of the world. Here are six special women who have Hollywood’s hearts in their hands day in and day out, knowing full well that life is, indeed, a box of chocolates — and not the gooey kind. Beauty and the best — they all show their smarts with a smattering of self-deprecation that just ennobles them even more, always without fear of being themselves. Why a sextet? One each for the “Star” of David they represent in Hollywood’s celestial firmament.

Lea Michele

Talk about your “Spring” break; Michele was one of … Read the rest