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Entertainment
Nuremberg Reprised
Actor Christopher Plummer was bewildered by the response to his monologue on the set of \”Nuremberg,\” the four-hour TNT miniseries about the war-crimes trial of 22 members of the Nazi high command.
Space Cadet
When Los Angeles artist Victor Raphael was a boy, he gazed at the biblical murals at Wilshire Boulevard Temple and pondered the divine. His cosmic musings, in the age of Apollo and Sputnik, led him to dream of becoming an astronaut. But when the need for eyeglasses made that dream impossible, he invented another way to visit the stars.
X-Men
Siegel. Shuster. Kane. Just a few names of Jewish storytellers whose restless imaginations fueled a multimillion dollar entertainment business that boomed throughout the 1940s and 1950s, when America was at war and television was in its infancy.
Cantors Sing a New Song
If Jewish Los Angeles seemed a more melodious place in late June, you can thank 250 of the Reform movement\’s sweet singers of Israel, who gathered in Beverly Hills to celebrate Jewish music and share their knowledge, skills, and repertoire.
The Senator and the Author
The meat of the book, \”A Will to Live On: This Is Our Heritage,\” is a review of the 3,000-year history of the Jewish community, the heritage that Joseph Lieberman believes is threatened and in great peril.
New Film Packs Heat
James D. Stern, 40, a part-owner of the Chicago Bulls, got his chance after breaking into the movie business with \”Michael Jordan: To the Max,\” a successful large-format documentary film about the athlete\’s final days in pro basketball. He quietly secured the rights to Keith Reddin\’s play, \”It\’s the Rage,\” which is now a film dedicated to his murdered friend.
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