For those Angelenos looking for a respite from million-dollar hype and \”Happy Meal\” tie-ins to studio blockbusters, late autumn is also a time when a flurry of small, offbeat film festivals grace local movie screens.
We met a man by the pool at the Grand Wailea. Our children were splashing around together, and he and I got to talking with all the intimacy that comes from knowing for certain we would never see each other again.
Can music be a catalyst for peace in the Middle East? His Holiness the Dalai Lama thinks so, and he\’s not alone.
When you grow up in the States, all you know is Ashkenazi Jewish culture,\” laments Moroccan-Jewish musician Ron Elkayam. \”But that is such a small part of the continuum of Jewish life.\”
Whenever John Mauceri conducts the Israel Philharmonic, Israeli reporters ask him why an Italian Catholic is so preoccupied with Holocaust refugee composers.
Add Sheba Humanitarian Award to the accolades garnered by the recording artist who Rolling Stone once named \”showman of our generation.\”
It is strange to be alone with Billy Crystal. He\’s still funny, insightful, charming — but the venue is all wrong.
I\’ve used \”The Voice\” as a guide, a casebook, anentry into the male psyche. See, I tell my teen-ager, men yearn too.Sinatra\’s face on album and CD covers hangs on our mantle. Part ofthe family. Part of our history. Under our skin.
Anne Meara\’s \”After-Play,\” a conversation piece now at the Canon Theater in Beverly Hills, is a kind of \”Look Back in Anguish\” conducted by two middle-aged couples whose lives seem to encompass all the failings of the past half century: broken families,marital spite, psychoanalytical distress.
Zigman said that after having watched the news of Rabin\’s death onTV, he awoke early the next morning with the notes of his openingmovement coursing through his head. He jotted down the music andplayed it for his good friend, artist Peter Max, who encouraged himto expand it into a major piece.
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