\”The Last Dance\” began when Bank, an acclaimed PBS filmmaker whose work often involves Jewish themes, attended a Pilobolus performance in summer 1998.
From his posts at the European Union and the Commerce, Treasury and State departments, Stuart Eizenstat was the administration\’s \”point man\” on Holocaust restitution, with a unique portfolio to pursue the assets that were looted from Nazi victims.
One of the most depressing of the many depressing aspects of the second year of the new millennium has been the resurgence of anti-Semitism and the importation into Islam of anti-Semitic motifs that were abandoned and discredited in the post-Holocaust Christian world.
The process of changing Nazi history in films and television actually began some time ago in films and television. From Chaplin\’s \”The Great Dictator\” to \”Hogan\’s Heroes,\” from Ernst Lubitsch\’s \”To Be or Not to Be\” to \”The Grey Zone,\” World War II and the Holocaust have been told almost solely from the point of view of the victors and the victims.
Who says you have to be Jewish to write a play about the Holocaust? Certainly not John O\’Keefe, author of the upcoming \”Times Like These,\” which takes place in Hitler\’s Berlin from 1934-1938.
Except for the goatee and the moussed hair, there\’s no clue this is David Arquette — the youngest of acting siblings Rosanna, Patricia, Richmond and Alexis — renowned for playing doofuses like the cop, Dewey, in the \”Scream\” trilogy (and for an off-screen wardrobe that rivals Liberace\’s).
Before Tim Blake Nelson wrote and directed his controversial Holocaust drama, \”The Grey Zone,\” he set out to create a play about his family\’s escape from Nazi Germany just before Kristallnacht.
Gehry is their dream pick to design the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews.
Actors with names like Jos and Johan fill the screen of the James Bridges Theater, as the Dutch Film Festival alights on UCLA\’s campus this weekend.
Werner Herzog\’s answer to the severe lack of good Holocaust movie roles for muscle men in Hollywood is \”Invincible.\”
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