EXCLUSIVE: How Poet Emma Lazarus Inspired Laurie Anderson
One of America’s greatest poets and one of our greatest avant-garde artists make for strange bedfellows.
50 Years Later, Just How Jewish Was ‘The Graduate?’
“The film seems to me Jewish in a social sense, in terms of the Jewish outsider, which is certainly the way Mike Nichols viewed himself.”
The Greatest War Story My Ski Trooper Uncle Ever Told
“He had a failing heart and liver, and maybe a week to live. I asked to could interview him in the hospital. “Kid, you better hurry up,” he said.
My Hero Grandmother Who Escaped An Arranged Marriage
For years, Laurie Gwen Shapiro didn’t think her grandmother Fanny’s story was worth telling. Then she discovered the astonishing history.
Charlotte Bronte
Timed to celebrate the 200th anniversary of her birth, “Charlotte Bronte: An Independent Will” proved to be the perfect exhibit for a compulsive reader.
Bill Cunningham: New York
“Bill Cunningham New York” was 2016’s perfect character documentary because it celebrates a mostly unknown yet true hero.
The Time I Almost Saw Walt Disney Vomit
Hollywood dealmaker Sam Adams recalls a particularly unsettling time he spent with Walt Disney.
Meet Sam Adams — Humphrey Bogart’s Assistant and I.B. Singer’s Dealmaker
He was on set with Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis and he cut deals for I.B. Singer and Margaret Atwood. Somewhere near Antarctica, Sam Adams tells tales from his Hollywood life.
This 101-Year-Old’s Uncle Was the Strongest Jew in the World
In the 1920s, a Romanian Jewish man named Max Rosenstock became ‘The Strongest Man in the World.’ His 101-year-old niece, the late Martha Gold, told us his story.
Meet Harry Swimmer — CNN’s Jewish Nominee For Hero of the Year
86-year-old Harry Swimmer runs ‘The Mitey Riders,’ which offers therapeutic horse-riding for children with disabilities. See why CNN has named Swimmer a finalist for ‘Hero of the Year.’