Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Tribute to Jules Dassin
BAGELS, CREAM CHEESE AND YIDDISH THEATER TALK WITH JULES DASSIN “During my 2000 interview with filmmaker Jules Dassin, who died in Athens on March 31 at 96, he told me, “Jules Dassin was a Napoleonic soldier in Paris who, during the invasion of Russia, fell in love, impregnated a young woman, and years later walked…
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News ‘Women of Achievement’ Honored
ANTI-SMOKING LEGACY FOUNDATION HONORS AARP CEO NOVELLI Issur Danielovitch Demsky (aka Kirk Douglas) was presented with the American Legacy Foundation’s first Public Awareness Award at its 2003 dinner. The presenter was Betty Perske (aka Lauren Bacall), whom Douglas tried to seduce when she was 16. “My mother and father died of smoke-related illnesses,” Douglas said,…
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News Mel Brooks Honored at Rainbow Room
MEL BROOKS LEAVES GUILD HALL GALA CROWD IN STITCHES Though the Forward is completing its 110th anniversary, Mel Brooks, the authenticated “2000 Year Old Man,” told me he grew up reading it as a youngster. Brooks, an honoree at the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts’ March 3 Achievement Awards gala at the Rainbow Room,…
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News Remembering Abraham Brumberg
PHILANTHROPIST ELLIOTT BROIDY HONORED WITH RAOUL WALLENBERG AWARD “I’ve come here to say todah rabah, thank you,” said Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, addressing **Elliott Broidy, recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Award at Gateway’s February 27 anniversary gala at the Waldorf-Astoria. Likud member and Israel’s former prime minister, Netanyahu declared: “We stand in the way of a…
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News Leonard Bernstein: A Musical Tribute
ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC AND TONY BENNETT APPLAUD LEONARD BERNSTEIN At the February 6 American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra tribute to Leonard Bernstein (with which the composer had a 40-year-long association), Bernstein’s daughter Jamie, the gala host, informed: “‘Candide’ was father’s valentine to Europe… [but] he blossomed when in Israel.” Addressing the black-tie crowd at…
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News Oscar-Winning Film Strikes a Chord
“COUNTERFEITERS” — A REAL OSCAR WINNER By the time I attended the reception, hosted by Elie and Marion Wiesel, for the film “The Counterfeiters,” held at Sony Corporation’s headquarters two weeks before the movie won an Oscar for best foreign film, I had relished the film’s dialogue and unexpected twists at three prior screenings. Among…
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News Spotlight on Women’s Health
KATI MARTON AND NOBEL LAUREATE MUHAMMAD YUNUS HONORED AT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S HEALTH COALITION GALA “In my travels, I have learned that if the world is going to be saved, it will be women who will do the saving,” said Kati Marton, who, with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, was honored at the February…
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News A Jewish Cinema Gem
ADVERTISING GIANT PUBLICIS GROUPE CEO MAURICE LEVY HONORED BY ADL “In France, Maurice Lévy is counselor of kings. Not a single acquisition or merger takes place without asking [Maurice] ‘Qu’est-ce que tu pense?’ — what do you think?” said cosmetics giant L’Oreal chairman Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, a past Anti-Defamation League honoree. Lévy, Publicis Groupe’s chairman…
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