\”There was no magic to our survival. It was sheer, pure, unadulterated luck, for men and women infinitely more worthy perished,\” Congressman Tom Lantos said at an advance screening of \”The Last Days.\”
When Roberto Benigni won the grand prize at Cannes for his Holocaust tragicomedy, \”Life is Beautiful,\” he rushed to the stage and kissed the feet of juror Martin Scorsese.
As part of the edgy juggling-magic-performance act The Mums, back in the 1980s, Albie Selznick ate razor blades, threw knives and produced doves from thin air while juggling torches.
While writing an aria based on a speech by Joseph Goebbels, for his 1991 opera, \”The Ghosts of Versailles,\” William M. Hoffman was visited by ghosts of his murdered family.
Before films such as \”Radio Days,\” Woody Allen had his television days.
Tongue of a Bird,\” now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, is a confoundedly difficult play.
It\’s common knowledge that the Jewish exodus from Russia in the late 1980s brought to Israel a flood of talented artists and musicians.
When Joanne Corday Kozberg talks about her new job as president and chief operating officer of the downtown Music Center, the key words are \”challenges,\” \”outreach\” and \”re-energizing.\”
The history of the Middle East conflict, from the birthpangs of the Jewish state to today\’s headlines, has rarely, if ever, been presented with more immediacy and human color as \”The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs.\”
Think Jean-Claude van Itallie, and you think, \”icon of the 1960s.\”
