The Moriah Films division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center scoured two dozen film archives across the world, and an equal number of photo archives, to create a dense pictorial narrative of the tumultuous 20 years, starting with the United Nations partition vote in 1947 to the stunning Six-Day War victory in 1967.
The man who introduced \”method acting\” to America and taught the likes of Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, John Garfield, Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro and hundreds of other luminaries, was born Israel Lee Strassberg in the Polish part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
\”I was worried about vaginas,\” an actress declares in Eve Ensler\’s hit play, \”The Vagina Monologues,\” at the Canon Theatre. \”I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don\’t think about them.\”
Since 1998, Golant has been working on her own, attending trade shows and selling her art wholesale to galleries, museum shops and museums.
During the darkest days of the Holocaust, 63 diplomats from 24 countries risked their careers, in some cases their lives, by issuing unauthorized visas and protective letters to save an estimated 200,000 Jews.The deeds of four of these brave envoys are honored in the documentary film \”Diplomats for the Damned,\” to air Sun., Nov. 26, on the History Channel.
It\’s a cautionary tale for parents, and one whose message will resonate with children: the new DreamWorks telling of the biblical tale of Joseph in the animated direct-to-video film \”Joseph: King of Dreams.\”In a style similar to that of \”The Prince of Egypt,\” which told the story of Moses, \”Joseph: King of Dreams\” imagines the childhood of Joseph and illustrates the dangers of favoring one child and the extremes to which sibling rivalry can lead. Animated by their jealousy, Joseph\’s brothers sell their preferred brother to Egyptian slave traders. It\’s an act they come to regret.
A small but vocal group of demonstrators rallied outside Paramount Pictures in Hollywood last week, wielding signs and chanting slogans like \”Jodie Foster wants to glorify a Nazi\” and \”Stop Jodie\’s project now.\”
Late November and early December is Chanukah festival time in L.A. This weekend, no less than 30 artisans from all over the globe will converge on West L.A.\’s Temple Isaiah for the Festival of Jewish Artisans, which celebrates its second decade this year. Making her first appearance at the annual event will be metal artist Aimée Golant – a young artist not much older than the Festival itself – who fashions mezuzot and menorahs in a quasi-abstract style.
Gurinder Chadha was having one of those surreal multicultural moments you get in L.A.
