Viva Vashti
Jane Ulman
March 4, 2004
Indeed, to appropriate a popular bumper sticker, if you\’re not outraged by Vashti\’s bad rap, you\’re not paying attention.
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beauty
Europe’s Tragic Melody
Tom Tugend
November 6, 2003
\”Gloomy Sunday\” is the English title for the more aptly named German-Hungarian film \”A Song of Love and Death,\” but under either label it is a movie of exceptional visual and dramatic beauty.\n\nOpening in the 1930s in Budapest, fabled in pre-war Europe for its handsome architecture and women, \”Gloomy Sunday\” starts as a good, old-fashioned love triangle, or rather a quadrangle.\n\n
Echoes of Esther
Marlene Adler Marks
February 14, 2002
The Purim beauty pageant of 1956 is long forgotten in the shtetl that was Queens Village, N.Y. But for me it is the stuff of personal destiny.
Redefining Beauty
Naomi Pfefferman
June 21, 2001
\”Why don\’t we f— this audition and I\’ll play you right now for the part?\” she said. \”If I lose, you\’ll never see me again. But if I win, I walk out of here with the script.\”
Head Trip
Marlene Adler Marks
April 19, 2001
Jim Wayne has cut my hair for more than 20 years. He created first the wedge look and now the clipped curly style of my professional photos.
Dreaming C’s
Teresa Strasser
April 15, 1999
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.
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