Jackson Arn
By Jackson Arn
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Film & TV The surprisingly gradual but unmistakably dramatic transformation of Mel Brooks
Jeremy Dauber's 'Disobedient Jew' demonstrates why the comic and filmmaker's work was markedly different in his early years
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Books At 89, Cormac McCarthy has created his first Jewish characters — not that it matters
In 'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris,' we meet Bobby and Alicia Western, whose exploits are more compelling than their surname
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Film & TV How a professor of Hitler studies got Spielberged when the unfilmable was filmed
Noah Baumbach's adaptation of 'White Noise' is in thrall to Gen-X pop culture
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Film & TV Was Josef K. only guilty of the crime of being Jewish?
Sixty years after its premiere, Orson Welles' adaptation of Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' remains cinema's most vivid fever dream
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Culture How Paul Newman became the most beautiful boring man in the world
A new Paul Newman memoir reveals that there was less to the actor than met the eye
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Art This devastatingly brilliant and unconscionably awful book will delight and appall
Jerry Saltz's hyperbolic 'Art Is Life' is most interesting as a look inside New York City's punditocracy
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Film & TV The chillingly evil Angela Lansbury performance that will stand the test of time
Obit writers have focused on 'Murder, She Wrote' and 'Mame,' but 'The Manchurian Candidate' is the one that will be remembered
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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes How Ernst Lubitsch punched Hitler in the face
In an unforgettable scene in 'To Be or Not to Be,' a Polish actor gets the last laugh
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