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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The Schmooze BAFTA Takes Bryan Singer’s Name Off ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Nomination
“Bohemian Rhapsody” may win a BAFTA, but it looks like the film’s director, Bryan Singer, won’t. The BBC reports that Singer’s nomination has been suspended from the Queen biopic’s bid for Outstanding British Film. The decision is due in part to allegations, including an expose from The Atlantic, of sexual misconduct and statutory rape. Singer…
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Film & TV Jonah Hill Crashes Zabar’s To Direct Vampire Weekend Music Video
The typical crowd at Zabar’s is a far cry from most music video background actors. That didn’t stop Jonah Hill. Shoppers at the Upper West Side staple were confronted with a film crew led by the “22 Jump Street” star Wednesday evening, The West Side Rag reports. Patrons’ reactions to the shoot, apparently for a…
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Culture Hitler’s Nude Painting Of His Niece Is Up For Auction At Nuremberg
Prepare to be repelled: Hitler’s nude portrait of his own niece, Geli Raubel, might potentially fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. The work is going up for sale this Saturday at Auktionhaus Weidler in Nuremberg, one of 31 paintings and drawings attributed to the dictator available to the highest bidder, Fox News reports….
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Culture Historian Simon Schama Is Now A Knight
That’s Sir Simon Schama to you. On February 5 Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, knighted Schama, the 73-year-old historian and Columbia University professor, for his contribution to history, the Western Telegraph reports. Schama is the author of books on the history of art, France, England, the Netherlands and the American Revolutionary War. In 2013…
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Culture Karl Marx’s London Tomb Damaged In A Suspected Hammer Attack
Even in death Karl Marx can’t rest easy. The Father of Communism’s life was disrupted by exile and expulsion as his profile and radical ideas spread throughout Europe. He finally made a home for himself in London where he wrote “Das Kapital,” helped found the German Workers’ Educational Society and died of pleurisy in 1883….
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Culture J.D. Salinger’s Son Is Readying His Father’s Secret Work For Publication — But It Could Take A While
Beginning in the mid-1960s, Matt Salinger’s father — yes, J.D. Salinger, the celebrated author of “Franny and Zooey” and “The Catcher in the Rye” — largely retired from public life and grew estranged from the literary word. Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that the author chose his next of kin over editors,…
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Culture Cory Booker Is Running For President. Marshall Curry Is Filming It — But First, He Might Win An Oscar.
On February 20, 1939, 20,000 Americans met at Madison Square Garden. They pledged their undivided allegiance to the United States, stood for the National Anthem and, before the remarks of the keynote speaker (Fritz Julius Kuhn, the leader of the German American Bund), they held their arms out in a Nazi salute. These everyday men…
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Culture At Museum of Jewish Heritage, Plans For The Largest Exhibit Ever About Auschwitz
Dachau. Treblinka. Chelmno. These words are startling in their power to recall the darkest period in Jewish history. But Auschwitz is different. Auschwitz produced Dr. Mengele and Rudolf Höss, two of the most infamous figures of the Shoah. Auschwitz was where thousands of everyday Germans worked alongside war criminals. At Auschwitz the Nazis established the…
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