PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Culture Kubrick’s Personal ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Script To Be Displayed At Museum Of The Jewish People
July 16, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch. While most accept the arrival of the shuttle on the lunar surface four days later as a watershed moment in space exploration, a few cranks hold to the idea that the landing was staged and filmed by director Stanley Kubrick. This theory has…
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Culture Remains Of Charles Levin, Actor Who Played ‘Seinfeld’ Mohel, Believed Found In Oregon
Nearly a week after Charles Levin was reported missing, authorities believe they have located the remains of the actor who is perhaps best known for his turn as a neurotic mohel on “Seinfeld.” According to The Oregonian, a body believed to be that of the 70-year-old actor was found near a remote road in the…
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Culture New Screenplays Show Stanley Kubrick’s Fascination With Troubled Marriages
Three never-before-seen screenplays by Stanley Kubrick lend new insight into the filmmaker’s early career – and possibly his second marriage. The scripts, which are sketches for longer projects that never materialized, were recently found in Kubrick’s home where his widow, Christiane Kubrick, still lives. The Guardian reports that the pages were transferred to Kubrick’s archive…
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Culture Sophia Loren Will Play A Holocaust Survivor – Again
Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren will play a Holocaust survivor in her first film in a decade. The film, titled “La Vita Davanti a Sé” (“The Life Ahead”), is directed by Loren’s son Edoardo Ponti, and is based on French novelist, aviator and diplomat Romain Gary’s 1975 novel “The Life Before Us,” which he published under…
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Culture Items From The Anne Frank House Are On Display In America For The First Time Ever
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is a major resource for the millions of people who have been captivated by Frank’s story. The home, where Frank, her family, the three-person van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer hid from the Nazis in a secret annex between 1942 and 1944, has become a site of pilgrimage since…
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Culture Award-Winning Memoirist Lucette Lagnado Dies At 62
Lucette Lagnado, the award-winning author who documented her family’s exodus from Egypt to America, has died at 62. The Jewish Book Council, which awarded Lagnado the Sami Rohr Prize in 2008, announced her passing. Lagnado was born to a Jewish family in Cairo in 1956. In 1963, during a wave of mass exodus by Jews…
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Culture Philip Roth’s Estate Auction Shows His Simple, Sturdy, American Side
You can now own Philip Roth’s Balinese shadow puppet, area rugs or Pat and Richard Nixon collectible plate. Litchfield County Auctions, which runs estate auctions for the Connecticut county in which Roth lived part-time for decades, has posted a lineup of over 100 items owned by the Pulitzer-winning author, who died in May of 2018….
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Culture Woody Allen: ‘I Would Probably Die On A Film Set’
Woody Allen plans to die in the director’s chair. “Since I started, I’ve always tried to focus on my work, no matter what happens in my family or with politics. I don’t think about social movements,” Allen told press at San Sebastian, Spain on July 9, a day before he began filming a new project,…
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