\”Haven\” is an intriguing but seriously flawed depiction of how nearly 1,000 European refugees were transported and admitted to the United States in 1944, which CBS-TV will present as a four-hour miniseries on Feb. 11 and 14 at 9 p.m.
When Natasha Richardson starred in Paul Schrader\’s 1988 biopic, \”Patty Hearst,\” she drew inspiration from a Holocaust-themed tome plucked off a shelf in her father\’s Los Angeles home. The book was \”If This Is a Man,\” Primo Levi\’s account of his time in Auschwitz, and in its pages the young Brit gleaned crucial insights into the psyche of her brutalized character.
Manya Hartmayer Breuer, a docent at The Jewish Federation\’s Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, usually doesn\’t watch Holocaust films. They stir up too many painful memories.
In \”Dangerous Diplomacy,\” Theo Tschuy introduces a forgotten hero of the Shoah, Carl Lutz, a man who certainly deserves to take his place among the Wallenbergs and Schindlers.
\”In the old Hollywood movies, the underdog always won. I\’ve got to believe that can still happen,\” says Joseph Cedar, sitting in the lobby of a cheap hotel in the mid-Wilshire area frequented by young Israelis and artistic types of various nationalities.
\”Don\’t be deceived by the simplicity of the art,\” Judy Chicago admonishes a group of reporters gathered for a preview of her \”Resolutions: A Stitch in Time\” exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center.\n
\nPlaywright Arje Shaw\’s first memory was crawling across the floor, finding a piece of black, moldy bread and dipping the crust in water in order to chew it. He was 18 months old. \”I looked like a Biafran baby,\” he says.
One of Hitler\’s first fiats in 1933 led to the dismissal of all Jewish professors from German universities.\n
Screenwriter Henry Bean was riveted by the story the instant he heard it 25 years ago.
It was the first time in U.S. history that the cast and producers of a play were hauled down to police headquarters and convicted on obscenity charges.\n
