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March 6, 2003

Heavenly Friendship

Naomi Pfefferman March 6, 2003

When the call came about writing the music for Todd Haynes\’ \”Far From Heaven,\” Elmer Bernstein was initially dismissive. \”The film already had a temporary score, and I won\’t look at a film with a temporary score,\” said Bernstein, who has received 13 Academy Award nominations and a 1963 Oscar for \”Thoroughly Modern Millie.\” His agent replied that he might make an exception for this temporary score, because it happened to be Bernstein\’s music from \”To Kill a Mockingbird.\”

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

Sandee Brawarsky March 6, 2003

\”Welcome to Heavenly Heights\” by Risa Miller (St. Martin\’s Press, $23.95).

Many writers have imagined the Jewish immigrant experience, setting their novels and short stories on the Lower East Side and places like that, where newcomers can forge their way to become Americans. Risa Miller\’s debut novel, \”Welcome to Heavenly Heights,\” is a different version of that story, with American Jews making new homes in Israel, reversing the exile. This transition can be more pressure cooker than melting pot, mixing idealism, religion, bureaucracy, family complexities, shifting expectations, love and, never far away, violence.

Yonah and the Wail

Gaby Wenig March 6, 2003

Johnny Childs, blues musician, has come a long way from his old life as an ultra-Orthodox hoodlum. He started off in Brooklyn as Yonah Krohn, the unruly third child in a family of 10, who would sometimes briefly steal the fancy cars outside synagogues and take them for joy rides. He left home when he was 12 because his parents didn\’t want him corrupting his younger siblings, and at 14, while in a group home, his life gained focus after he discovered the dulcet strains of blues music.

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