Allan M. Jalon
By Allan M. Jalon
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Film & TV For Paul Newman’s 97th birthday, his lost cinematic masterpiece
Editor’s Note: Paul Newman would have celebrated his 97th birthday today. To commemorate that date, we’re taking another look at this essay about the Anton Chekhov film he directed on the stage of a Yiddish theater. Paul Newman directed a pioneering, independent film shot at a Yiddish theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and you’ve…
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Culture A New Jersey tale of two Alfred Doblins — and one umlaut
Editor’s Note: Alfred Döblin, the Weimar-era author of ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz,’ was born on this day in 1878. To honor this occasion, we revisit this award-winning story about the writer’s connection to another Alfred Doblin. I was dozing in front of the TV when I lifted one eyelid to see Rachel Maddow interviewing a man with…
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Culture A year and a half later, a treasured voice returns — and maybe so does a city
It was just a step up from the floor to a low stage, just one nod to the band, just the first soft words of “My Funny Valentine,” that standard of standards by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart: “Stay little valentine stay.” That’s all it took and without the slightest mention of taking more than…
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Film & TV For Paul Newman’s 96th birthday, his lost cinematic masterpiece
Editor’s Note: Paul Newman would have celebrated his 96th birthday today. To commemorate that date, we’re taking another look at this essay about the Anton Chekhov film he directed on the stage of a Yiddish theater. Paul Newman directed a pioneering, independent film shot at a Yiddish theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and you’ve…
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Culture Why Emmett Till still matters
Next July will mark 80 years since Emmett Till was born, months before America entered the Second World War with segregated troops. He grew up on Chicago’s South Side, turning 14 in 1955, after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka that American schools must desegregate. Till wasn’t part of…
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Culture The Odyssey Of Dr. Richard Simms — An Art Collector Like No Other
Editor’s Note: On this day in 1867, the artist Käthe Kollwitz was born. Today, we revisit the first story in our four-part series about the life and career of Dr. Richard Simms, a dentist who became one of the world’s foremost collectors of Kollwitz’s work. Part II may be read here. When Richard A. Simms…
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Art Käthe Kollwitz: Artist of the resistance
*This is the fourth in a series of stories about the work of Käthe Kollwitz and how it influenced artists, activists and collectors like Dr. Richard Simms, part of whose collection is being exhibited by the Getty Center in Los Angeles. You may find the previous articles here, here and here. In 1903, working with…
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Art All Roads Lead Back To Käthe Kollwitz
This is the third in a four-part series of stories about the work of Käthe Kollwitz and how it influenced artists, activists and collectors like Dr. Richard Simms, part of whose collection is being exhibited by the Getty Center in Los Angeles. You may find the previous articles here and here. In 1971, as America…
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