Preventing human trafficking: You can help. Here are some guidelines:

Published on May 15, 2013

Be aware. Trafficking victims are everywhere, and they often exhibit characteristics similar to victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Modern slavery: Answering the cry

Published on May 15, 2013

Modern slavery is everywhere, and women principally are its victims.

My evening at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honoring “Hot in Cleveland”

By Julia Bendis
Published on March 31, 2011

Funny, They Don’t Sound Jewish

By Rachel Brand
Published on September 18, 2003

Laura Bush on Howard Stern; J. Lo waking up with a pimple on her nose; Homer Simpson running for governor of California. No, it's not a slow day on "Live on E!" It's a game of "Scenes from a Hat" -- one of 40 interactive games that improv comedy troupe, The Los Hombres, has in its repertoire. The game, in which audience members write down funny scenes that they would like to see acted out, is just one way the eight-member cast connects with the audience.

‘Old’ Cast Young-at-Heart

By Tom Tugend
Published on January 17, 2002

Mathilde Giffard, the title character of "My Old Lady," is a 94-year-old Parisian, though she tries to pass for 92. She has a spinster daughter, Chloe, who is around 50. They are visited by an American, Mathias "Jim" Gold, also fiftyish, and Jewish.

That's the whole cast. No well-endowed ingenue, no muscular hunk, no rebellious teenager within 50 kilometers.

The Artistry of ‘Art’

By Gene Lichtenstein
Published on January 21, 1999

The internationally acclaimed play, "Art," arrived at the UCLA/Doolittle Theatre in Hollywood this past week with tremendous advance billing. Hosannahs for the original Paris production; a grand salute for the London staging; the Tony Award plus the 1998 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play.

The Artistry of ‘Art’

By Gene Lichtenstein
Published on January 21, 1999

Tongue of a Bird," now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, is a confoundedly difficult play.