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Arts
August 12, 2008
Herb Gold, elder statesman of the Beat Generation, writes on
It was at college that he first met Allen Ginsberg. "He was 17. He was a bit crazy, and he was more eccentric than I was," Gold said.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Deferred dream comes true for actress Nan Tepper
"I had been a student, wife, mother, news executive and caregiver, but I had always promised myself that one day I would be an actor."
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Paul Shapiro’s ‘vout’ mishegoss
In 1945, the hippest Hollywood nightlife destination was Billy Berg's, on the corner of Vine and DeLongpre. A tall, suave black man named Slim Gaillard, who favored pinstripe suits, held court there. Black entertainers were seldom booked west of Western Avenue in those days, and Gaillard's appearances at Berg's were, in a very real sense, where Hollywood's racial integration began.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The soldier in the center ring
As far as he has traveled, from Israel to Southern California, Ben-Binyamin has come an even greater distance in recent years in his transition from the IDF to the circus, a change he refers to as "extreme."
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Armageddon Survival 101
"It starts when you open your eyes in the morning. Maybe you're awakened by the sounds of random gunfire, or the howling of souls being cast into the lake of fire," Kutner writes. "But at least it's not that godawful clock-radio buzzer."
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
‘Forgotten Hero’ of the Shoah Peter Bergson gets his due times two
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Comic rewrite of bar mitzvah fiasco fuels ‘Sixty Six’
"It was one of the most hilarious speeches I had ever heard," Bonham Carter recalled of Weiland's spiel. "Afterwards Paul was absolutely mobbed with people who thought he should turn the story into a movie. And I asked if I could play his mum."
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The costliest word in show business . . . the 'N-word' [VIDEO]
Jamie Masada of the Laugh Factory on Sunset says Jesse Jackson owes $50 to the Museum of Tolerance for using the 'N-word' on TV
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Geriatric love, (I.B.) Singer style
To Max's surprise and delight, the bereaved widow proves quite amorous, insisting, as do his other female companions, that a man is never too old for some active love-making
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen—so many roads
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
JDub throws off the label and opts for change
JDub was never supposed to be just a record label, and as JDub records celebrates its fifth anniversary with a free concert on July 27 downtown at California Plaza, it is more clear than ever that the organization's founders have greater ambitions than merely putting out good Jewish CDs
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The hip Jewish museum by the Bay, Nagler new JFS chief
The new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is a hip amalgam of modern art. Daniel Liebeskind's peculiar architectural dazzle looks like a giant Rubik's Cube in metallic steel, standing on its tip beneath the city's downtown skyscrapers. Beside it is the Jessie Street Power Substation, a brick and terra cotta structure in the classical revival style, a landmark building first erected in 1881 that Liebeskind adapted to the project.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Shut up and read this book review
Levey's experiences are so amusing, the uninitiated might think he made them up. As anyone who has spent considerable time in Israel knows, though, he didn't need to. Levey's cast of characters merely exemplifies the saying, "Jews are just like other people -- only more so."
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Prolific Israeli producer-director tries Hollywood
Israeli producer-director Uri Paster has four movie and theater projects planned this year
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
A Mensh on the radiowaves to recovery
Over the next 13 years, Mensh snorted cocaine (sometimes off the turntables at his disc jockey gigs), added acid and Quaaludes to the mix, and imbibed to the point that he blacked out, only to awaken in a ditch or a stranger's car or bed.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
In which the writer discovers Nextbook’s new read on culture
"A man should live, if only to satisfy his curiosity." The Yiddish proverb, tacked to the wall of my study, came to mind when curiosity -- and the assignment to entertain my visiting young grandsons -- led me to the Nextbook festival. It's a personal embarrassment, or the fault of the organization's anti-promotional attitude, that I had never heard of Nextbook, or as its logo has it: nextbook>.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Israeli and Palestinian shed their armor in ‘Desert Sunrise’
The play opens in the south Hebron hills in the West Bank with Tsahi, an off-duty Israel Defense Forces soldier, pointing his gun at Ismail, a Palestinian shepherd. Having just broken up with his settler girlfriend, Tsahi is lost and seeking a way back to the main road. Ismail, waiting for his girlfriend, is the only one who can help Tsahi find his way.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Leigh Silverman: Nurturing novel ideas, one play at a time
One day, when Leigh Silverman was 15 and the youngest student in a college summer drama program, her teacher pointedly asked her to stay after class.
"She said, 'Leigh, you shouldn't be an actress; you're terrible,'" Silverman, now 33, recalled with a laugh. "I was horrified. But then she said I had good insights about the plays, and that instead of acting I should be her assistant.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Israeli film ‘My Father My Lord’—Abraham’s binding of Isaac redux
In the Israeli film "My Father My Lord," the secular or casually religious Jew encounters a world whose mindset and lifestyle might as well be thousands of miles and centuries away. It is the world of the charedi, or ultra-Orthodox, community, in which every action, every thought, is determined by God's law, as elucidated by the sages.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
The heart and the drive
He was famous for being the first man in Hungary to own a car, and my grandmother kept a clipping from the Royal Hungarian Automobile Society with a picture of him seated at the controls of his Benz with a little girl on the rear rumble seat. Beneath the photo was the caption in Hungarian, German and French, proclaiming "Hatsek Bela le premier automobiliste Hongrois sur son voiture Benz en 1895."
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Islamic tales of forbidden love, lovers
Early in "A Jihad for Love," a new documentary directed by Parvez Sharma and produced by Sandi Simcha Dubowski, we meet Mazen, a 20-something Egyptian man who has fled Cairo for Paris to avoid the three-year prison sentence authorities want to impose on him because he is gay.
Blogs
8/19
Iranian American Jews: Remembering the late Elias Eshaghian
8/19
The God Blog: Top ten reasons for Israel’s poor Olympic performance
8/19
The God Blog: Former Muslim to lead Baptist college
8/19
Hollywood Jew: Joan Hyler still critical—blood drive organized
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Books
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Herb Gold, elder statesman of the Beat Generation, writes on
It was at college that he first met Allen Ginsberg. "He was 17. He was a bit crazy, and he was more eccentric than I was," Gold said.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Armageddon Survival 101
"It starts when you open your eyes in the morning. Maybe you're awakened by the sounds of random gunfire, or the howling of souls being cast into the lake of fire," Kutner writes. "But at least it's not that godawful clock-radio buzzer."
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Waxing (Philip) Roth
I decided to watch every film adapted from Philip Roth's work. My mission started simply enough: a search on imdb.com turned up eight works on film and TV, stretching back to the 1950s. Some had never been released on video, some are only in VHS, some were available at the local video store, some had to be tracked down in specialty shops or in university or museum archives. My quest led me across Los Angeles and afforded me the pleasure of visiting some of the city's most beautiful libraries and research facilities, as well as some of its best-stocked video stores.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Shut up and read this book review
Levey's experiences are so amusing, the uninitiated might think he made them up. As anyone who has spent considerable time in Israel knows, though, he didn't need to. Levey's cast of characters merely exemplifies the saying, "Jews are just like other people -- only more so."
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
‘Simplexity’ explains the methods to the madness
A handshake might seem to be a simple, even thoughtless social exchange. But behind the meeting of hands are a lot of neural firings, tactile feedback, control of muscles, depth perception; it's a ritual that grows out of a long tradition of greetings and social cues.
Films
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Comic rewrite of bar mitzvah fiasco fuels ‘Sixty Six’
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Helena Bonham Carter—Jewish mother?
Hollywood Jew
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Bob Saget: Clean-cut and filthy (uncensored version) [VIDEOS]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Bob Saget: Clean-cut and filthy (G-rated version)
Music
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Jazzman Frishberg charts own tuneful territory
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Paul Shapiro’s ‘vout’ mishegoss
Television
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Bob Saget: Clean-cut and filthy (uncensored version) [VIDEOS]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Bob Saget: Clean-cut and filthy (G-rated version)
Theater
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Deferred dream comes true for actress Nan Tepper
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
‘Forgotten Hero’ of the Shoah Peter Bergson gets his due times two
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Herb Gold, elder statesman of the Beat Generation, writes on
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Waxing (Philip) Roth
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Food
Eating Bambi (recipe included)
Most of the anti-Semitic mail I get these days doesn't concern Israel, Hollywood or even the threat of a nuclear war in the Middle East -- it's about meat.
Music
Jazzman Frishberg charts own tuneful territory
One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material.
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How to comfort and be comforted
Parshat Vaetchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) God tells Moses that although he's faithfully led His people through the desert these past 40 years, and although the Jews are now standing at the very border of the Holy Land, Moses himself will never be allowed entry, and will die and
Religion
Randy Pausch’s last lecture links morality and purpose
"Brick walls are there for a reason," wrote the late Dr. Randy Pausch, author of the best-selling book, "The Last Lecture."
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The Great Awakening
The Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church will hold back-to-back public conversations this Saturday, Aug. 16, with the two presumptive presidential
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