You may know Jonathan Elias as the guy who composed the music to Chaplin and 9 1/2 Weeks. Or most of the songs on the Yes album, Union. Or the ditty to the original MTV promo, the one where the astronaut plants the MTV flag on the moon.
Michael Cullen wants people to search their attics and basements for documents, photos, paintings, you name it — photocopies are acceptable. If something is valuable, like a painting, the museum will consider purchasing it.
In 1995, Ruth Seymour and KCRW teamed up with the National Yiddish Book Center to create \”Jewish Short Stories,\” a National Public Radio series read by actors such as Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum. The program was a peculiar excursion in time-travel: back to the days of golems and rebbes and schlemiels all living together in the shtetl.
Based in large part on his 1986 autobiography, the movie revisits Zeffirelli\’s childhood before and during World War II, when he was an orphaned, illegitimate child adopted by a group of feisty expatriate Englishwomen and by a wealthy Jewish-American art collector in Florence.
The good news is that Roseanne may have finally found three nice Jewish boys as suitors for her three daughters. The bad news is that the boys live in England and the girls in Los Angeles.
The legendary writer-director-producer was speaking at a program that was part of the Skirball Cultural Center\’s \”Spotlight\” series — which is devoted this season to television.
Rabbi David J. Forman, who has lived in Jerusalem for more than 25 years, goes on to claim that his message, while it may seem an all-out attack on liberal Judaism, represents the views of \”a vast number\” of Reform professionals in America.
\”Enigma Variations,\” directed by French Canadian Daniel Roussel and starring Donald Sutherland as the author and Jamey Sheridan as the reporter, is that rare work in which every prospect pleases.
The last time Poogy toured here was 1976, shortly before they broke up.
Like a box of candy, this numbered collection of memories and anecdotes is best eaten slowly, the better to digest each morsel.
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