Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News A Yiddish Fête
A LANDMARK MOMENT: MAYORS BLOOMBERG, GIULIANI, DINKINS AND KOCH TOGETHER AT NEW YORK POLICE & FIRE WIDOWS’ & CHILDREN’S BENEFIT AT HILTON The October 8 New York Police & Fire Widows’ & Children’s Benefit Fund at the New York Hilton was a historic moment. For the first time, four New York City mayors —Michael Bloomberg,…
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News Glitz, Glamour and the Arts
REDFORD, RUSCHA, RUSHDIE AND HARMAN HONORED AT NATIONAL ARTS AWARD DINNER Artist Ed Ruscha, recipient of the Artistic Excellence Award at the October 5 Americans for the Arts 2009 National Arts Awards dinner, joked that all the evening’s honorees should collaborate on a film based on Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses.” In response, Rushdie, who…
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News Serious Yiddishisms
THERE’S SERIOUS YIDDISH IN THE COEN BROTHERS’ “A SERIOUS MAN” In retrospect, had I known in November 2002 of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Minnesota Jewish roots, oy! The questions I would have asked! Back then, we were at the French Embassy in New York, and France’s outgoing ambassador to the United States, François Bujon de…
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News Appeal to the Senses
APPEAL OF CONSCIENCE HONORS BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN; FRANCE’S LUXURY PURVEYOR BERNARD ARNAULT, AND COCA-COLA HEAD MUHTAR KENT It was “Cheers” to prime minister Gordon Brown of Britain, “à votre santé” to Bernard Arnault, Chairman and CEO, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, and “sagliginiza” (to your health in Turkish) to Muhtar Kent, the Coca-Cola…
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News A Golden Anniversary
THE GUGGENHEIM AT 50 Abiding by the invitation’s directive, black tie and Kandinsky colors, for the September 16 celebration of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th anniversary and the opening of the Kandinsky exhibit, Knight Landesman, executive editor of Artforum magazine, arrived in an eye-popping mango-colored suit. Among the 250 guests viewing the 100 Kandinsky works were…
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News A Changing Landscape
FAYE WATTLETON WOWS AT CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN BENEFIT Leave it to sexpert Ruth Westheimer to head for the most powerful man in the room, Henry Kissinger, to give him her signature photo-op, neck stranglehold hug. Kissinger, his wife, Nancy, and Columbia University President Lee Bollinger were among the guests at the September 14…
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News Binoche’s Art World
FRENCH FILM STAR JULIETTE BINOCHE DAZZLES AS ARTIST, POET, AND NOW DANCER Not until after I had met the stunning French film star Juliette Binoche at the September 9 preview of the exhibition of her latest book, “Portraits In-Eyes” at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy did I learn of her maternal grandparents’ imprisonment…
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News Stanley Kaplan: Education Pioneer
REMEMBERING STANLEY H. KAPLAN, THE MAN WHO HELPED MILLIONS SUCCEED Among the family members and friends paying their respects by sitting shiva at the Kaplan home following the funeral of Stanley H. Kaplan, a pioneer in SAT test preparation who died August 23 at age 90, was New York Senator Charles Schumer. Pointing to a…
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