‘Three Stories’: From Krakow to L.A.
Michael Aushenker
February 11, 1999
The world was a different place for writer-director Pavel Vogler when he arrived here from Poland six years ago.
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Entertainment
Cinema Judaica
Michael Aushenker
February 11, 1999
In years past, the Sundance Film Festival — a two-week marathon of industry schmoozing, skiing and screenings in Park City, Utah — has served as the launching pad for Jewish independent cinema.
A Study in Betrayal
Tom Tugend
February 4, 1999
When David Mamet, the son of brilliant but emotionally abusive parents, was growing up in Chicago, his mother told him, according to The New Yorker profile of the playwright, \”I love you, but I don\’t like you.\”
Community Briefs
Jewish Journal
February 4, 1999
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
‘Last Days’ of Innocence
Tom Tugend
February 4, 1999
\”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.\”
Benigni in L.A.
Naomi Pfefferman
February 4, 1999
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.
Prime-Time Rabbi
Naomi Pfefferman
January 28, 1999
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.
The Ghosts of ‘Riga’
Naomi Pfefferman
January 28, 1999
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.
Inside Woody Allen’s TV Past
Michael Aushenker
January 28, 1999
Before films such as \”Radio Days,\” Woody Allen had his television days.
The Artistry of ‘Art’
Gene Lichtenstein
January 21, 1999
Tongue of a Bird,\” now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, is a confoundedly difficult play.
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