PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Culture What The Hell Is ‘The Kominsky Method’?
The biggest winner at last night’s Golden Globes is a show you might have missed. Netting a Best Actor award for Michael Douglas and a Best Musical or Comedy Series statuette for creator Chuck Lorre, “The Kominsky Method” is leaving many people asking, “What the hell is that?” Well, it’s a new Netflix series starring…
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Film & TV Don’t Let Fiji Water Girl Distract You — Fiji Water Is Super Shady
Who won this year’s red carpet at the Golden Globes? If you ask the internet, it was Kelleth Cuthbert, aka “Fiji Water girl,” a raven-haired model in a blue dress who was discreetly intrusive in offering parched celebs Fiji Water from a tray. While we can all have fun with the pretension of the bottled…
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Culture Edgar Hilsenrath, Provocative Holocaust Novelist, Dies At 92
Edgar Hilsenrath, a German Holocaust survivor and novelist celebrated for his trenchant and satirical books on genocide and life in the Jewish ghetto, passed away Sunday at a hospital in Wittlich, Germany. He was 92. Hilsenrath was born April 2, 1926 in Liepzig to David Hilsenrath, a furrier, and Anna Hilsenrath, née Honigsberg. As he…
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Film & TV A Theater Gave Far-Right Germans Free Tickets To ‘Schindler’s List’ — And It Backfired
Last month, members of Alternative for Germany (AfD), Germany’s major far-right party and the largest opposition group in the country’s legislature, were offered a curious Christmas gift: Free tickets to “Schindler’s List.” They weren’t thrilled. As The New York Times reports, Cinexx, an independent theater in Hachenburg, declared it would give free admission for a…
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Film & TV All The Jewish And Jew-Ish Things That Are Public Domain In 2019
Sonny Bono was one half of the folk duo Sonny & Cher, a Republican Congressman from California and the wearer of a notable mustache. He’s less well-known for his connection to copyright law. In 1998, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, sponsored and named by his widow, Congresswoman Mary Bono, who took her late…
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Film & TV Actor Bob Einstein, Known For Super Dave And ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ Dies At 76
Bob Einstein, a staple of sketch, scripted and improvised comedy for five decades died on January 2, 2019, at the age of 76. The New York Times reports that Einstein’s manager, Lee Kernis, confirmed that the comedian had been battling cancer. Einstein, the son of comedian Harry Einstein and actress and singer Thelma Leeds, was…
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Culture Elizabeth Wurtzel Learns Her Father Was Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman
Elizabeth Wurtzel, famous for “Prozac Nation” and infamous for her claim that motherhood isn’t a job, is speaking out against her mother for her failure as a parent. That failure? To tell her who her real father was. In a blistering essay for The Cut, Wurtzel reveals that she lived her life until 2015 believing…
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Culture Larry Eisenberg, New York Times Limerick King, Dies At 99
Larry Eisenberg, commenter supreme, Has passed away, it would seem As recorded in The Times, Which he graced with his lines, His daughter reports she’s bereaved. With his limericks sublime, Eisenberg was 99, A biomedical engineer And Sci-Fi writer who endeared, He was truly one of a kind. Born to parents Sidney and Yetta, Larry…
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