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Paul Franklin Stregevsky
July 4, 2002
No bachelor was more adroit at saying \”No, thanks\” when told, \”Have I got a girl for you.\”
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July 4, 2002
The Man of Lonesome Sorrow
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
July 4, 2002
He awoke from the nightmare with a scream, as he had every night for almost 40 years. His heart
raced, his body drenched in sweat, his mind filled with vivid images of fiery destruction. He saw rivulets of blood flowing through the streets of Jerusalem, the Holy Temple ground into ashes, the lifeless bodies of the priests scattered about the Temple Mount.
Minority Report
Marlene Adler Marks
July 4, 2002
Steven Spielberg\’s new film, "Minority Report," is not exactly a deep take on the problems of "knowing," but since you\’ll probably see it anyway, here\’s where it brought me.
The film, based on a science fiction story by Philip K. Dick, argues that the future can indeed be known. Moreover, our security depends upon finding a Pinchas, a zealot who knows what crimes are being committed, and personally stops them. So anxious are we to hire this Pinchas, this future-knower, that we would sacrifice our freedoms for him.
It is 2054 in a dark, police-state Washington, D.C, all murder has been foretold by three mermaid-type creatures called precogs, so named because they have pre-cognition. The crimes are prerecorded in the future, then replayed in real time, at which point they are interrupted and prevented by a precrime squad headed by John Anderton (Tom Cruise), the very Pinchas we are seeking. Pretty neat.
For These Things, I Do Weep
Amy Klein
July 4, 2002
This coming week begins \”the nine days,\” the period of intense mourning leading up to Tisha B\’av, the fast of Av, which takes place on the following Thursday, July 18.
Within and ‘Without’
Naomi Pfefferman
July 4, 2002
n the lushly lit opening sequence of Sandra Goldbacher\’s new film, "Me Without You," two 11-year-old girls, one Jewish, one not, make a pact to be friends forever.
\nThey solemnly scribble a note, Holly and Marina equals Harina; now we two are one, then stuff it in an empty Charlie perfume bottle and bury it in the garden. The buoyant comedy-drama traces their overly intense, ultimately suffocating best-friendship from 1973 to the present.\nIt\’s a loosely autobiographical film for Goldbacher, who says she wanted to explore the kind of intoxicating, mercurial, almost addictive friendshipcommon among young girls.I myself had a furiously intense best friendship from 11 to 17, the 41-year-old Jewish Brit says by telephone from London. It\’s haunted me like a specter. I dreamt of Tasha constantly though I hadn\’t seen her in 20 years. I was hoping the movie might exorcise a few ghosts.
‘Faces’ of Heroism
Naomi Pfefferman
July 4, 2002
At 7 feet tall, the free-standing photos in the Skirball\’s \”Faces of Ground Zero: A Tribute to America\’s Heroes\” show\nliterally loom larger than life. Grizzled firefighter Louie Cacchioli, who dodged hellish traps before leading 50 people down 23 floors, cradles his helmet like an infant. Window washer Jan Demczur, wearing a meek expression, holds the squeegee he used to pry open an elevator and bash through a wall. Joanne Gross, her eyes bewildered, clutches her brother Tommy\’s firefighter and cowboy hats. Next to her stands a photo of her other firefighter brother, Danny, who searched the rubble 24 hours a day until he found Tommy\’s body.
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