readings
By Tom Teicholz at 17 October, 2008, 12:48 pm
The Student magazine NEW VOICES which is the national jewish student magazine has a new issue that focuses on the lubbavitch movement — there’s some interesting articles and info there about the Chabad presence on campus, the fight over who owns the 770 building and assortment of former chabadniks including one who joined the US Army served in Afghanistan and Iraq, joined the anti-War movement and is still working on his anger management issues.
VARIETY read 0.17.08
Matthew Weiner is waiting for AMC to back up the money truck.
What does it really mean that the release date for the Soloist has been pushed back? Is it some kind of f-u to Dreamworks from Paramount denying them Oscar qualification?
At the same time the release for Defiance the Ed Zwick movie about the Bielsky brothers forest partisan group has also been pushed back to Jan but in this case they will open for Oscar qualification in Dec
Pushing back Defiance should re-ignite a fire under my ass to write something about the film — and about this moment in film when so many movies about “tough” Jews are being made…
There’s an item about Gary Gray abandoning an Avi Lerner movie — someone needs to explain the Avi Lerner movie machine….. Gray is going over to a movie that Frank Darabont was supposed to direct –produced by the Film Dept — must be a story there re: Darabont — (disclosure: The Film Dept is producing this project and I have a project witht them, but no intelligence –or even information — on this one).
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