The Arts
Tom Tugend
August 7, 1998
When Steven Spielberg first saw Adam Goldberg in the television series \”Relativity,\” the director scribbled a three-word memo to himself: \”intense, funny, Jewish.\”
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The Arts
Naomi Pfefferman
April 19, 1998
In March 1996, John Turturro packed a trunk filledwith Primo Levi\’s books and traveled to a remote part of the Ukraine.His destination was the set of \”The Truce,\” Francesco Rosi\’s filmbased on Levi\’s searing 1963 memoir \”The Reawakening.\” Portraying theHolocaust author, Turturro sensed, would be the most difficult roleof his life.
The Arts
Sally Ogle Davis
March 26, 1998
What a peculiar piece of work is \”Bent.\” The film version ofMartin Sherman\’s play, first presented on the London stage in 1979,and later on Broadway, has taken almost 20 years to come to thescreen. It\’s not difficult to see why. Not only is it turgid stuff,with a paucity of unfilmable ideas, but in an industry that sometimesseems to specialize in specious history, it will be hard to matchthis one for irresponsibility.
Arts Briefs
Naomi Pfefferman
March 12, 1998
British director Tyrone Guthrie, a non-Jew, once said: \”If all the Jews were to leave the American theater, it would close down about next Thursday.\”\nMaybe that explains why there\’s so much Jewish theater now in Los Angeles. Here\’s a roundup of the offerings: We can\’t guarantee they\’re good, but we can guarantee they\’re Jewish.
The Arts
Naomi Pfefferman
March 5, 1998
Actor-composer Hershey Felder, 29, has a way with politicians.
21 Years Ago: Redemption, Hollywood Style
Sally Ogle Davis
October 9, 1997
Let me be direct and come to the point right off the mark:
\”Seven Years in Tibet,\” appropriately filmed in Argentina — whereold Nazis go to be rehabilitated or to die, whichever comes first –is a turgid piece of filmmaking and as dishonest as, well, \”TheDevil\’s Own,\” Brad Pitt\’s last outing on film.
Kirk Douglas’ Greatest Role
Tom Tugend
September 18, 1997
\”The Torah is the greatest screenplay ever written,\” Kirk Douglas says. \”Ithas passion, incest, murder, adultery — really everything.\”
Keeping in Rhythm
Naomi Pfefferman
June 19, 1997
Doctorow was wary when the call from Toronto came four years ago. Garth Drabinsky, the maverick theater producer who runs his company like a 1930s movie mogul, had a proposition: He wanted to turn Doctorow\’s 1975 best seller, \”Ragtime,\” into a musical. Drabinsky had won Tonys and made millions with \”Show Boat\” and \”Kiss of the Spider Woman,\” and wanted to repeat with \”Ragtime.\”
‘I am Tateh’
Jewish Journal
June 19, 1997
In \”Ragtime,\” the part of Tateh, a widowed, immigrant Jew who comes to New York with a young daughter in tow, is in many ways a role that is especially close to the heart of actor John Rubinstein.
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