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Of Morality and Memory

Carole Braverman\’s play revolves around the lives of four women,living in 1980s Brooklyn, and examines the degrees of separation in their willingness to face personal and global tragedy unflinchingly.\n

Kirk Douglas’ Greatest Role

\”The Torah is the greatest screenplay ever written,\” Kirk Douglas says. \”Ithas passion, incest, murder, adultery — really everything.\”

On Valor, Violinists and Vacations

As Berlin bureau chief for the Boston Globe in the late 1980s andearly 1990s, Kaufman traveled widely and tracked the stories andmemories of four Jews and one Catholic, and their families, duringthe momentous 51 years.

Flower Tower

Project 9865, named after the 18-year-old oil derrick\’s OlympicBoulevard address, has several interwoven artistic, social and evenpolitical components.

War Stories

Liss, a veteranscreenwriter with a long list of credits, including theHolocaust-themed TV film \”Hidden in Silence,\” has been to hell andback on an odyssey filled with more risk and drama than a paperbackthriller.

Telethon Time

If anyone had any doubts that the Chabad telethon has become a landmark on the pop culture scene, consider this: The entire cast of \”Friends,\” one of NBC\’s top-rated sitcoms, has produced a segment of the show to air only on the telethon.

The Grown-Up Prodigy

If I were a struggling painter, say, 20 years in a garret withnothing to show for my art but empty paint tubes and unpaid bills,I\’d probably hate Ann Krasner.

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