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Golden-Aged Tell-All

Hank Rosenfeld March 1, 2001

The scene: Avenue of the Stars, Century City.

The characters: A few older men in a Park Hyatt suite.

The action: They kibbitz

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is here from Atlanta to interview Golden Age Hollywood figures for an oral history, the Turner Classic Movies Archive Project. TCM\’s goal is to get all available witnesses to tell their cinematic stories. The project is modeled after the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

If I should Forget Thee

Tom Tugend March 1, 2001

The ancestors of Israeli filmmaker Ron Havilio arrived in the Holy Land shortly after their expulsion from Spain in 1492, and in "Fragments: Jerusalem" he pays loving tribute to the city of his birth and the history of his forebears.

Family Business

Naomi Pfefferman March 1, 2001

At age 5, long before he began writing satirical pop songs and Oscar-nominated film soundtracks, Randy Newman trekked down to the sound stage at 20th Century Fox to watch his Uncle Al conduct the studio orchestra. Uncle Alfred was only 5-feet-4, but the Newman family patriarch seemed larger than life as he conducted his intensely dramatic score from \”All About Eve.\”

Remembering Alfred

Naomi Pfefferman March 1, 2001

Maria Newman, the youngest child of the late, great film composer Alfred Newman, is a musician with a mission.

Family Friction

Tom Tugend February 22, 2001

"The Gathering" touches both the funny bone and the raw nerves of Jews living in an equal opportunity America, but still wrestling with the emotional legacy of the Holocaust.

Neglected History

Naomi Pfefferman February 22, 2001

Heinz Dormer is almost 90 years old, but his faded blue eyes take on a terrified, faraway look as he remembers an awful place called "the singing forest."

Rebel, Rebel

Naomi Pfefferman February 22, 2001

Rabbi Jonathan Aaron of Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills knows as much about show business as shul business.\n\nThe 39-year-old rabbi, a former actor and managing director of the Open Forum Theatre in Connecticut, is the author of a new musical, \”Hyrcanus,\” an intergenerational production of the temple\’s Emanuel Arts Center.

Strange Attraction

Naomi Pfefferman February 15, 2001

Actress Marcia Gay Harden is a Texan, non-Jewish and the daughter of a U.S. Navy captain who regularly moved his family around the world. So she has had to do her homework, she says, to portray the tough-yet-vulnerable Jewish characters that have won her wide acclaim.

Books: Beyond Mortality

Rabbi Michael Gotlieb February 15, 2001

For those who struggle with the concept of God, the primary issue is God\’s existence. Once established, one\’s belief in the divine informs other areas, such as the afterlife, reincarnation and resurrection.

Afterlife Rabbi

Sandee Brawarsky February 15, 2001

When Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz delivered a sermon about survival of the soul to a group of rabbis in Los Angeles in 1996, a charged discussion followed, and an Orthodox rabbi remarked that he had never before heard rabbis publicly discuss the supernatural.

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