Like many a success story, it all started as a joke.\nDave Golding, a major Hollywood publicist, asked neophyte photographer Phil Stern to document the filming of \”Guys and Dolls.\” As a favor to his father, who worked on The Forward, Golding asked Stern to photograph Marlon Brando reading a copy of the Yiddish-language paper.
Either the apocalypse is coming, or I\’ve been living in Los Angeles too long. Last night, I woke up from the most vivid dream, the kind that feels like it lasted all night, the kind of dream that feels like a journey through every emotion.
The other day, I got a sample of Pampers in the mail. It doesn\’t happen very often now, fortunately.
It was 1984. A tough, tight-lipped Israeli army colonel was leading a small group of journalists on a tour of southern Lebanon, where Israel was in the midst of a war. The journalists wore army-issue flak jackets. They listened and took notes, as if taking dictation. One correspondent, Thomas L. Friedman, challenged the officer repeatedly. The colonel stonewalled him. But Friedman\’s questions were sharp and unrelenting. \”He\’s going to end up wanting to talk to me,\” Friedman said to a Reuters reporter, \”because tomorrow whatever he says is going to be on the front page of The New York f—— Times.\”
For the first time ever, an Arab citizen of Israel is running for prime minister. He is first-term Knesset member Azmi Bishara, one of the leading intellectuals in the Arab world, and one of the most provocative politicians of any ethnicity in Israel.
When I consider author Sara Davidson\’s now-so-public love affair with a cowboy who didn\’t know about Anne Frank, I can hear my mother saying, \”Honey, you could do so much better.\”
To which Davidson\’s response would surely be, \”Show me how.\”
Peter Mehlman, the former writer and co-executive producer of \”Seinfeld,\” is sitting at a corner table at Shutters on the Beach, wearing mismatched sweats and a day\’s worth of stubble.
Ben-Zion Blustein, the teen-age lone survivor of a White Russian Jewish family, spent most of World War II on the run, hiding in the forest, fighting with the partisans against the German occupiers and their local collaborators.
arbara and Sheldon Helfing never expected to have one autistic child, much less two. Their son Leland, now 5, was born prematurely and began showing signs of a neurological disorder before reaching his 1st birthday.
Once upon a time, we celebrated holidays and honored men and women and moments from our past as though they were charged with meaning. Armistice Day, Independence Day, Lincoln\’s birthday.
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