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Paris attacks loom over Golden Globes ceremony

Actors including George Clooney, Kathy Bates and Helen Mirren wore “Je Suis Charlie” buttons at the Golden Globes Awards ceremony in memory of the 12 people killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.

Kardashians buying Tel Aviv beachfront property

First Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden have a traditional Jewish wedding even though neither is believed to be Jewish. Now the non-Jewish Kardashian sisters are buying up luxury property in Israel. Clearly Judaism has taken on a star (and not just Star of David) quality.

Actress Luise Rainer, 1930s back-to-back Oscar winner, dies

Luise Rainer, the German-born actress who made cinema history by winning back-to-back Oscars as best actress for the 1936 musical \”The Great Ziegfeld\” and the 1937 drama \”The Good Earth\” during a brief, stormy Hollywood career, died on Tuesday at age 104.

Sondheim’s Freudian ‘Woods’

The movie version of Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway classic Into the Woods, which opened in theaters yesterday, is much more than several interwoven, fractured fairy tales. It’s a thicket of symbols and themes that draw directly on the ideas and Weltanschauung of Sigmund Freud.

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