Complex sentence: "James Franco" Inside the Actors Studio December 7,2010 Franco's mother is Jewish; her family were Russian-Jewish immigrants, and her father, Daniel, had changed the family surname from "Verovitz" to "Verne" some time after 1940.
Split into simpler sentences: James Franco Inside the Actors Studio December 7,2010 Franco's mother is Jewish, from a family of Russian Jewish ancestry. His maternal grandfather, Daniel, had changed the family surname from "Verovitz"to "Verne" some time after 1940.