Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News "Frontline" Producer Honored
ISRAELI-BORN FILMMAKER OFRA BIKEL HONORED WITH CHANCELLOR AWARD “Journalism is our first line of defense against those who will spread lies,” said Alan Brinkley, Columbia University’s provost, at the November 13 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism dinner. Brinkley was quoting none other than the late NBC News anchor Chancellor. The black-tie event honored…
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News Reeve’s Legacy
SUPERMAN’S LEGACY: THE CHRISTOPHER AND DANA REEVE FOUNDATION GALA “Happy birthday, Annie! And for your birthday, you can go get me coffee!” said Meryl Streep, in jest, to Anne Hathaway at the November 12 Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation “Magical Evening” gala, held at the Marriott Marquis. (Hathaway played the role of Streep’s gofer in…
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News Tom Cruise Steals The Show
TOM CRUISE HONORED BY MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGE “Son of a single mother, I sold newspapers at 8 [years old] and had lived in so many cities that I do not have a recognizable accent,” Tom Cruise told the stellar crowd at the November 6 Museum of the Moving Image Salutes Tom Cruise gala. “But…
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News Dershowitz Sounds Off
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD GALA HONORS FILM STAR PATRICIA NEAL “I’ve played Mexican bandits, Italian Mafiosi, a Greek jewel thief and finally ended up as on old Jew,” Eli Wallach joshed. He and his wife, Anne Jackson, were award presenters to film legend Patricia Neal at the November 1 Hooray for Hollywood gala benefiting the Auditory…
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News Salute To U.S. Veterans
“WE THE PEOPLE’” THEME OF NYC NOVEMBER 11 VETERANS DAY PARADE On the sunny morning of November 11, more than 12,000 military and civilian marchers were assembling for New York City’s Veterans Day Parade up Fifth Avenue. By 8 a.m., Karen — a volunteer member of the United War Veterans Council of New York County…
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News Tribute To An Italian Hero
NYC DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF INTELLIGENCE DAVID COHEN HONORED WITH ADL’S FIRST PALATUCCI LEADERSHIP AWARD “He disregarded Mussolini’s orders to gather Jews for concentration camps, forged visas and documents, destroyed files… and sent Jews to neighboring towns to live among the Italians as brothers,” said Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director, about Giovanni Palatucci, the…
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News Gala Honors First-Ever Chairwoman Of The Board
EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE GALA AT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Let me put to rest the Jewish adage that one can’t dance at two weddings. On October 18, fleet of foot and with the help of New York City transport, I managed three simchas. First, a pause at the 950-plus black-tie Alfred E. Smith Memorial…
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News Alzheimer’s Association’s Glitzy Gala
NOTEWORTHY WOMEN HONORED AT RITA HAYWORTH ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION GALA On October 10, the Alzheimer Association’s annual “Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered” Rita Hayworth Gala was held at the Waldorf-Astoria. Princess Yasmin Aga Khan launched the gala 24 years ago in memory of her mother, Hayworth, who showed symptoms of the disease while in her 50s. Considered…
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