Dark currents surface in surfing clan’s idyllic life
May 21, 2008
A nice Jewish doctor decides his family must live on in a camper and surf . . . all the time; and here\’s the documentary to prove it
Sally Ogle Davis
Oxnard Kosher Dining Is a Sur Thing
February 2, 2006
Oxnard\’s population is more than 70 percent Latino, which could explain why Tierra Sur, the finest new kosher restaurant on this coast (or almost any other), has decided to open with a decidedly Mediterranean-Spanish flavor, with a large dose of Tuscany thrown in for good measure.
Lessons From a Film Festival
March 18, 2004
Three Jews, four opinions — right? Of course right. Now mix in something as subjective as one\’s taste in movies.
A Kushner Series That Will Offend All
December 4, 2003
After director Mike Nichols took his wife, Diane Sawyer, to the first screening of his six-hour HBO film of Tony Kushner\’s epoch-defining, \”Angels in America.\” She said, \”I know what this is about. It\’s about being Jewish.\”
She\’s right, but it\’s also about being gay in the latter 20 years of the 20th century. It\’s about friendship and redemption. It\’s about the feeling we all have in our darker hours that as a species, we could be on the verge of extinction. It\’s about the struggle for the soul of America between the right and the left, and it\’s about so many other things that it\’s virtually impossible to describe.
Cry, Argentina
February 27, 2003
It\’s a balmy night as we join those filing into the basement social hall of the venerable Libertad Synagogue in the heart of downtown Buenos Aires. It resembles any Friday night service crowd anywhere in the United States, except that it\’s standing-room only. An elderly man sings Yiddish songs in a still-strong tenor followed by a young duo on saxophone and clarinet playing selections from \”Fiddler on the Roof.\”
Europe’s Harms to China’s Arms
October 3, 2002
Just when it seems that all the World War II and Holocaust stories have been told, a little-known tale from a far corner of the world comes along to add another dimension to the saga of the Shoah.
Hitler, Still in Development
August 22, 2002
CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves says major changes are being made to the first draft script of their planned miniseries on the early life of Adolf Hitler.
Furor Over Der Fuhrer
August 15, 2002
\”Attempts to find in the youngster \’the warped person within the murderous dictator\’ have proved unpersuasive. If we exclude our knowledge of what was to come, his family circumstances invoke, for the most part, sympathy for the child exposed to them.\”
— Ian Kershaw,
\”Hitler: l889-l936 Hubris.\”
Prime Time for Hitler
August 1, 2002
Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS and Nancy Tellem, his entertainment chief, confirmed what had been up until then only a frisson: The network would air a young Adolf Hitler miniseries right in the middle of next year\’s sweeps.
Der Fuhrer on Der Screen
August 1, 2002
Adolf Hitler is no stranger to big screen and small. Charlie Chaplin first parodied Adolf Schickelgruber in the 1940 movie \”The Great Dictator,\” and since then Der Führer has become a part of screen history. Mel Brooks poked fun at him in the movie \”The Producers\” in 1968 which was robustly reincarnated as a musical on Broadway.
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