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Why are we so obsessed with John Demjanjuk?
On Tuesday, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum released a photo of Sobibor guards that purports to reveal Nazi collaborator John Demjanjuk in a guard uniform at the Sobibor Death Camp. German historian Martin Clippers said the museum used the German police to conduct a biometric examination to affirm it was Demjanjuk.I have seen the […]
A Heart Shaped LA Dream Drive
Saturday Night Live has regularly mocked Los Angelenos for their obsessive and unending conversations about their routes driving to and from any destination â and it is funny because it is true: Traffic and its avoidance is an inevitable fact of SoCal existence.In fact, one of the inside-LA jokes in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a […]
This Week Taught Me How Out of Touch I Am About Race
This has been a week that’s felt overwhelming. Here, in Santa Monica, my wife and I and our 22 year old daughter Natasha, all stayed at home. Although there was no looting or vandalism in our immediate vicinity, the street where my office is in downtown Santa Monica was completely rampaged â with my local […]
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Herb Alpert Awards In the Arts Go Virtual
“Artists are the heart and soul of this nation,” Music icon, Artist and Philanthropist Herb Alpert said at the 26th annual Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. “It’s all about freedom of expression, imagination and truth telling.”“They are our second responders,” Alpert said in a telephone interview earlier in the week.The Herb Alpert Award in […]
More Cultural Adventures At Home
It seems like only yesterday…or maybe the day before? What day is it anyway? As one week glides into the next I”ve found that I”m not reading for pleasure as much as I normally do. I started a book some time ago, and find it strange that I can”t get past the mid-point. And I […]
Zsa Zsa Gabor Dead - The Last Hungarian Actress of Her Generation
Zsa Zsa Gabor has died at 99. As my fellow Hungarican wrote me: ‘That’s it. 2016 worse year ever.’ Zsa Zsa was the last connection to my mother’s world of Budapest and the glory of Hungarian women born before World War Two – a cosmopolitan, very clever, very adaptable, very assimilated, world of superficial beauty, […]
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