By Tom Teicholz at 24 April, 2009, 10:17 am
Who knew?
Who knew that basketball has a storied Jewish past, or that a non-sports guy like me would ever read, no less enjoy, a book about baseball umpires, Bruce Weber’s “As They See ‘Em” (Scribner, 2009)? Maybe it’s because Passover is a time of miracles - or is that Chanukah? Or Purim? Or the entire [...]
Tom Segev’s “Simon WIesenthal” The life and Legends” (Doubleday) has just been published and is getting some interesting response. A positive and stirring review from Dwight Garner in the New York Times, “The Man Who Refused to Forget,” and a more critical by equally passionate one by Ron Rosenbaum, “Self made Golem” at Tablet, the [...]
Alain Corneau, the famous French director and writer is dead. Here is his New York Times obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/movies/31corneau.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries He was most famous for “Tous les matins du monde” which starred Gerard Depardieu but the reason I was familiar with his work was because he the director and co-writer of “Police Python .357″ a movie that I’ve been attempting [...]
Nikki Finke has made TOLDJA one of her signature blog exclamations, but I couldn’t help borrowing it in this case. A few years ago when I wrote about the sketchy provenance of the Huntington Librarys Nazi holdings, gifts by General George Patton of items he took possession of at war’s end, some thought I was making [...]
“Funundrum” this years Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show, is filled with new technology and harks back to the circus’ roots and tradition. I have to say that it may be their best show in recent years. THEY ARE PLAYING IN LOS ANGELES AT STAPLES THIS WEEKEND(JULY 16, 17,18), AND THEN WILL BE AT THE [...]
From Brittany Lambertus, publicist at Rock Paper Scissors, here’s info about the Skirball’s Summer concert series: Each week, the Skirball Cultural Center presents a new world music artist in an effort to connect people to one another and share their many different cultural heritages. “Though many think of the Skirball as a primarily Jewish organization, our [...]
When Jeff Bridges won the Academy Award for best actor for his performance in “Crazy Heart,” and spoke so wonderfully about his parents and their influence on his being an actor, it reminded me that many, many years ago, in 1982, I had interviewed Jeff Bridges for Andy Warhol’s INTERVIEW magazine and that he had [...]
I’m writing a new blog for the folks at virtual Jerusalem called Our Times How is it different than this? Well for one thing, I may earn some money from it….. They are sharing ad revenue with me — which means that if people actually click on the ads – something that doesn’t happen as often [...]
Middlebury College in Vermont has a 4-1-4 structure and January was the month when you could spend your time in the pursuit of a solitary subject or a frivolous one or both. Barry Hannah who did a stint as a teacher in the English dept at Middlebury was our advisor for a winter term project [...]
Yesterday the UCLA Film and Television Archives had a showing of remastered episodes of “The Goldbergs” the Gertrude Berg TV program that Aviva Kempner featured in her recent documentary “Yoohoo Mrs Goldberg” about Berg. A panel about Berg featured writer producer Margaret Nagle, as well as film and TV professor Vincent Brook moderated by journalist [...]
J. D. Salinger, the novelist whose “Catcher in the Rye,” was the gateway drug for a generation of teenagers, readers and writers resisting the social conformity, and who became almost as famous for being reclusive as he was for his novel and his collections of short stories, died at his home in New Hampshire, at [...]
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