One was a U.S. resident from the beginning of his long life to its end, creating music as American in its sound and subject matter as \”Yankee Doodle Dandy.\” The other, after making his mark in Germany, fled his homeland through France and spent his final, tragically few years adding to the glory of the American musical theater at its height.
On the cover of Jack Bielan\’s new CD, \”From the Heart of a Jewish Soul,\” a pianist plays as his keyboard expands and spirals heavenward. Below, the glow from two yahrtzeit candles joins the keys soaring into the clouds.
Eventually, I promise you, the 2000 presidential election will end and the 2001 Los Angeles mayoral race will begin.
Everything about Michael Addis is unorthodox, including how his interest in directing began and how \”Poor White Trash\” came about.
The late, great actor Edward G. Robinson may never have won an Oscar, but he now has a U.S. Postal Service commemorative stamp.
The latest movie from British writer-director Guy Ritchie – known both for his film \”Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels\” and for being the father of Madonna\’s newborn son, Rocco – \”Snatch\” is the story of the aftermath of that heist.
It\’s not a stretch to call Woodland Hills-based author Faye Levy\’s 625-page \”1,000 Jewish Recipes\” a culinary bible. It may be the only Jewish cookbook you\’ll ever need.
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.
