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The Gift Of Simone Veil: Elsa Zylberstein’s Oscar-Worthy Performance
Simone Veil was a major figure in France, one of that country’s most popular politicians ever, whose steely will, remarkable determination, and unyielding sense of justice led Veil, who as a teenager was deported to Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, whose father and brother were murdered by the Nazis and whose mother died in the camps, to fight as an attorney, a magistrate, and a legislator, for the rights of Algerians, for prison reform, for women’s rights – she passed France’s… -
When Reality Was a Joke: Making Albert Brooks' Real Life - BLARB
When Reality Was a Joke: Making Albert Brooks' Real... View Original Article -
When a "City Without Jews" Was a Comedy
Wilshire Boulevard Temple will host a special screening of the Los Angeles premiere of "The City Without Jews," a long-lost, recently restored 1924 Austrian silent film, featuring live accompaniment on the temple's magnificent, 4,102-pipe Korn Kimball organ.This film could not be more timely (alas). The increase of anti-Semitic incidents in England, France, Hungary and Poland has prompted many Jews to consider emigrating from those countries. And this November will mark the 80th anniversary ... View Original Article -
Arnold Schwartzman: The Vision Behind Voices
Arnold Schwartzman, the artistic director of the 'Voices & Visions' program whose first set of 18 posters by world class graphic artists illuminating quotations from illustrious Jewish personages is now on view at LA's Skirball Cultural Center, is a story unto himself. View Original Article -
WB's Legal Eagles
Tommywood - WB's Legal Eagles. For writer Shapiro, practice made perfect. by Tom Teicholz. September 8, 2005 | 8:00 pm ...... View Original Article -
Nick Cannon Could Teach a Masterclass in Bouncing Back from a Scandal
Here are nine lessons from the TV host's redemption tour, which included a visit to an L.A. Jewish centerWatching the near collapse and resurrection of actor, rapper, and TV host Nick Cannon's career in real time has been a masterclass in reputation rehab. After Cannon was heard spouting anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan talking points on his podcast Cannon's Class, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center tweeted, "Anyone seeking a Ph.D. in Jew-hatred should watch this... View Original… -
The Comic Genius of Allan Sherman
Mark Cohen on his new Sherman biography and what it means to be funny in America... View Original Article -
The Art of Lisa Edelstein
During the pandemic, Lisa Edelstein, the actor best known for her roles as Abby McCarthy in Girlfriends" Guide to Divorce, Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the popular medical drama series House, and as Alan Arkin's wayward adult daughter Phoebe on The Kominsky Method, took to painting. Seriously. Seriously and so well that her paintings are being exhibited at art consultant Lisa Schiff's exhibition space, sfa Projects, at 45 White Street in New York's Tribeca.The paintings in the exhibition, Lisa Edelstei... View… -
Best Of 2022: At KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, it's Novena Carmel and Anthony Valadez's Mix And Flow
This is the time of the year for "best of" lists, and if you care about adult contemporary music (i.e. adult alternative, singer-songwriter, world music), you will want to check out the end year best of list from KCRW's DJs Novena Carmel and Anthony Valadez who co-host that station's signature music program Morning Becomes Eclectic. KCRW will reveal their end of year lists on Wednesday Dec 14 with a reveal on Tuesday December 13 (This event is virtual, and free… -
Not So Quiet On The Western Front: Remembering The Activism of Universal Pictures" Carl Laemmle
Netflix recently started streaming a new German-made production of "All Quiet On the Western Front," based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 Anti-War novel. This is the third filmed production, with a 1979 TV version adapted by Delbert Mann, and the original Academy Award winning 1930 version. It is worth recalling the impact of the original and the way in which it galvanized the humanitarian efforts of Carl Laemmle.Laemmle, the German-born Jewish immigrant who was one of the founders of Univer...… -
Ken Burns' "The U.S. And The Holocaust" On PBS
This Sunday, PBS premieres, The U.S., and The Holocaust, Ken Burn's three-part six-hour documentary, produced and directed by Burns, Lynn Novick and and Sarah Botstein.You might wonder what, if anything, there still is to say about the Holocaust, after so many, many films have been made about it, all over the world. Having watched many of those films, and as the host and curator of an annual Holocaust Film Series at the Holocaust Museum LA, I can tell you that… -
The Full Picture: Black Cinema 1898-1971
Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, the new exhibition currently on view at Los Angeles" Academy Museum is a revelation, an education, a corrective to our blindered knowledge of American Film history and a lot of fun. It is superbly researched and curated with a wealth of artifacts intelligently installed and displayed, and really makes the case (if it even needed to be made) that the Academy has indeed launched a museum rather than merely a tourist attraction.At the press preview, Academy...…