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Israel’s ‘grande dame’ grows up on the big screen

There is a scene in Dina Zvi-Riklis\’ award-winning drama, \”Three Mothers,\” in which Gila Almagor, once a popular singer, stages a comeback concert to raise money for her sister, Yasmin, who needs a kidney transplant. At the start of the concert, she introduces herself as one of three sisters. \”Sixty years ago, my sisters and I were born in Alexandria, in Egypt. We\’re triplets,\” she says, with a coy smile. \”Triplets are like twins, but a lot harder.\”

Channel Surf With the Tribe

Welcome to fall: The time of High Holidays, contemplation, repentance and really, really long services.

And did I mention TV?

15 Years Ago: Young Creator Spells Success ‘O.C.’

Josh Schwartz has been having trouble sleeping. Ever since his new show, "The O.C.," began airing on FOX this summer, he\’s faced insomnia Tuesday nights, anxiously awaiting the public\’s response to each new episode.

Lung Donor Needed to Save Young Life

On a cool November evening, the Avrech family — Robert, Karen, and Ariel — sit within the cozy confines of their Pico-Robertson home, where an Emmy Award that Robert won for his 1999 Holocaust-themed drama, \”The Devil\’s Arithmetic,\” graces the mantle.

7 Days In Arts

When you have to take medicine and immediately think about adding \”A Spoonful of Sugar,\” you can thank Robert and Richard Sherman,
better known as the Sherman Brothers.

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