Curt Schleier is a freelance writer and author who covers business and the arts for a variety of publications. Follow him on Twitter at @tvsoundoff.
Curt Schleier
By Curt Schleier
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Film & TV 3 Brothers Survived The Holocaust In A Cave. Can They Survive Revisiting It?
“Shalom Italia” is not your typical Holocaust movie. The documentary, which airs July 24 as part of the POV series on PBS, is as much a fascinating family drama and rumination on memory as it is about surviving the war. Emmanuel, Andrea, and Bubi Anati, brothers born to an extended, respected and prosperous family in…
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Culture Scott Turow’s New Book Takes On The Holocaust
‘I like my life, whatever I’m doing,” Scott Turow told me. “I get out of bed in the morning and I know that there’s something I’m going to look forward to, which is a blessed way of life.” Not so for his characters. “Someone pointed out to me that in all my books the characters…
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Culture Why Love Connection’s Andy Cohen Is The Anti-Chuck Woolery
Andy Cohen, executive producer and creative force behind the Real Housewives show, periodically tours the country with Anderson Cooper, where the two tell stories about their lives and take questions from the audience. He also curates the Radio Andy channel on Sirius radio. And he is an author most recently of “The Andy Cohen Diaries:…
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Film & TV Will ‘Wizard Of Lies’ Bring Out The Anti-Semites? Barry Levinson Doesn’t Care
There is a major surprise in “The Wizard of Lies, Barry Levinson’s film about the Bernie Madoff scandal, which premieres on May 20 on HBO and is based on the reporting of Diana B. Henriques: It’s possible to feel a modicum of sympathy for a despicable human being. The film stars Robert DeNiro as Bernie…
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Culture Rama Burshtein Has A Fundamental Belief In Marriage
In “The Wedding Plan,” writer-director Rama Burshtein’s follow-up to her debut feature “Fill The Void,” a Hasidic Jewish woman named Micha gives herself less than a month to find true love, after which she plans to give up on marriage. As with her previous film, Burshtein focuses on the topic of marriage among the Haredi…
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Culture Comedy Central Host Keeps His Act Strictly ‘Kasher’
Despite a hectic and dramatic life story, 37-year-old comedian Moshe Kasher has emerged relatively unscathed; he is a regular guest on late night talk shows, and the author of a memoir (“Kasher in the Rye”). He now hosts a new Comedy Central TV series, “Problematic With Moshe Kasher,” which aims “to solve every problem that…
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Life Maureen Chiquet: French Elegance From An American Jewish Woman
For Maureen Chiquet the day she came into high school and found the words “dirty Jew” scrawled on her locker changed everything. Chiquet rose from an internship at L’Oreal to Worldwide CEO of Chanel. She is also the author of “Beyond the Label,” a book that chronicles her rise up the corporate ladder. She grew…
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Culture The Secret Jewish History Of Neil Gaiman And ‘American Gods’
According to Neil Gaiman, advance reviews for ‘American Gods,” mini-series based on his novel, are “kind of astonishing.” The central premise of “American Gods” (which debuts on Starz April 30) is that immigrants coming to America brought their mythology and gods with them. But over generations, the newcomers succumbed to different deities, technology, money, celebrity…
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