By Tom Teicholz at 12 June, 2008, 4:20 pm
As everyone knows by now, Adam Sandler’s “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan”
dives in where few comedies have gone before: The Middle East conflict
between Arabs and Jews. Hollywood has a long tradition of preferring
onscreen Jews to be Semitic-lite (or even better, portrayed by non-Jews
such as Gregory Peck in “Gentleman’s Agreement”).
Sandler, however, pulls no such [...]
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 [...]
What an amazing experience it was! Ringo still very much Ringo — quick, funny, sweet and tough in a room of about 200 people at the Grammy Museum downtown. Ringo has a new album out called “Y not” that he is out promoting and talking about. It is the first album that Ringo has produced himself [...]
Happy holidays — I will be posting lightly if at all between now and picking it up again next year.
The Demjanjuk trial in Munich resumed this morning after a several week break with the Judge rejecting the defense motions to end the trial based on the extradition or claims of double jepoardy. Demjanjuk appeared in court in a wheelchair, keeping his eyes closed for much of the hearing. He reappeared later on lying on a [...]
The sign that stood over the entrance of Auschwitz saying “arbeit macht frei” has been recovered in Poland. Five men were arrested, who, according to reports, hoped to sell the sign for money. See the cnn.com story: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/21/auschwitz.sign.found/
Saul Lisky, who was 6 when his father was killed in a DP camp in Germany — had a shock of recognition when he heard that Demjanjuk was being investigated for possibly running over a man with a truck in a DP camp in German — he realized it was his father. The full article is [...]
I was a little concerned that my daughter and her friend, tweens already disdainful of all parent-chosen entertainment, would find the DISNEY ON ICE show, as they say, “boring!” or too babyish — but they were enchanted. There was a Mickey and Minnie opening to the show that they could have done without but the retellings [...]
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