Long before the term \”politically incorrect\” graced the vernacular, sardonic singer-songwriter Randy Newman elicited considerable anger for songs that satirized sadists, lechers, liars and bigots.
Stan Cline remembers Los Angeles. He remembers Gilmore Field and the Pan Pacific Theater that stoodmajestically near the Farmers Market.
In late September 1934, Hank Greenberg, the great Detroit Tigers slugger, chose not to play a crucial game against the Yankees so that he could observe Yom Kippur.
In late September 1934, Hank Greenberg, the great Detroit Tigers slugger, chose not to play a crucial game against the Yankees so that he could observe Yom Kippur.
On a warm spring evening this month, the boisterous strains of Eastern European music wafted out the window of a large, Spanish-style home in Santa Monica.
When I got the call from Montreal, fortunately I was sitting down. The woman said her name was Bryna Wasserman, and she wanted to produce a musical based on the film I had made about Harry Houdini in 1976.
In Philip Roth\’s new novel, \”The Human Stain,\” a classics professor at a small New England college creates a fictional identity for himself.
The future of American Jewish music – which has an awful lot in common with its past and present – was spread out in all its diversity on May 2, when the American Jewish Music Festival returned to Los Angeles after a three-year absence.
In her talk, which ran more than an hour, Deborah Lipstadt reflected on her almost five-year ordeal, which began when Irving sued her and her publisher, Penguin Books, for libel in a British court.
Cut to 1995, when Horovitz, an acclaimed playwright with a number of German friends, realized he still harbored a grudge against Germans and Germany. \”I thought, \’I\’d better go over there and deal with this right away,\” says the author, who arranged a whirlwind tour of his then-current German productions.
