Thomas Doherty
By Thomas Doherty
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Culture Once upon a time, Hollywood told the story of a forgotten Jewish patriot
Not since “The Jazz Singer” had a studio so elaborately staged a scene in a fully decked-out Jewish synagogue.
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Film & TV A Most Unnatural Experiment With Nature And Nurture
“It’s a lot darker than a Disney movie,” Paula Bernstein says to a chirpy talk show host who has just compared the magical coincidences of her separated-at-birth story to a fantasy from the wonderful world of Uncle Walt. The host is gobsmacked by the facts that Paula and her identical twin sister Elyse Schein both…
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Culture Was Hollywood’s Famed Censor an Antisemite?
‘These Jews seem to think of nothing but money making and sexual indulgence,” fumed Joseph I. Breen in a letter to the Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S.J., editor of the Jesuit weekly America. The year was 1932, and the hot-tempered Irish Catholic, lately summoned to Hollywood, Calif., by motion picture czar Will H. Hays to convert…
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