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Film & TV 8 young Jewish comedians on what ‘SNL 50’ means to them
'Saturday Night Live' may be entering middle age, but these rising Jewish comics are just getting started.
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‘Angels In America’ London Revival To Make Broadway Transfer
Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning two-part play “Angels In America” is coming back to Broadway. “Angels in America: Millenium Approaches” and “Angels in America: Perestroika” will transfer from London’s National Theatre to New York’s Neil Simon Theater early in spring 2018. As The New York Times reported, seven of the eight principal cast members…
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Why Are So Many of Today’s Recording Stars Named After Prophets?
Maybe it’s a coincidence. Maybe it’s a trend. Maybe it’s the times. Maybe it’s the birth pangs of the Messiah. In coming weeks, new recordings are expected from a half-dozen artists bearing the names of prophets and such — Tori Amos, Moses Sumney, Ariel Pink, Benjamin Clementine and a rock-rap super-group called Prophets of Rage…
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Meet The Man Who Has Revolutionized Israeli Cinema
Every year, Colorado’s prestigious Telluride Film Festival celebrates a hero of cinema who preserves, honors and presents great movies. This year that honor went to Katriel Schory, beloved president of the Israel Film Fund. The award was well-deserved. As president of the IFF since 1999, Schory has long been considered the secret force behind his…
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What Jewish Singles Events Are Actually Good For
Last spring, I found myself sitting in the Hilton in midtown Manhattan with three other women and a matchmaker, discussing the actor version of our perfect man. I said Jason Segel because he’s funny and lovable. I had come to this initial group interview to research a potential story, but also out of personal interest…
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How Poets And Novelists Are Mourning John Ashbery
John Ashbery was among the very greatest poets of the postwar era, one of the most imaginative and accurate chroniclers of what he called “the experience of experience.” But he might have blanched to hear himself spoken of in such portentous, non-poetic terms. Following Ashbery’s passing on September 3, his friends and acolytes offered reminiscences…
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Art How Jerry Lewis Became A Great Filmmaker And Embarassed Everyone In the Process
There can be an almost archeological element to discussing the work and career of Jerry Lewis. The legendary Jewish-American filmmaker, who died on August 20, lived and worked through a period of immense transformation in American culture – one that he helped to create – such that it can be difficult for contemporary audiences to…
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When Philip Roth Gave Mary Karr A Book — And Changed Her Life
What does a memoirist known for her evocations of the calamities of youth in Texas have to learn from a French experimental novelist and filmmaker? For Mary Karr, a first encounter with the work of Marguerite Duras proved the answer: Quite a lot. As told to New York Magazine’s Erica Schwiegershausen for the series “Reading…
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Steve Bannon’s Favorite New Book Is By A Historian Of The Jews
Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former chief advisor, now returned to his previous post as executive chairman of Breitbart News, has long drawn accusations of anti-Semitism, as well as impassioned defenses against the charge. Now, a new complication has emerged in the debate. Bannon, upon being named to the top spot of the Politico 50 —…
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Music In Memory Of Walter Becker, A Love Song For Steely Dan
By Dan Epstein Swimming lessons at the “Y” were the worst. For reasons I can no longer recall — but which probably had at least something to do with my stubborn resistance to taking any sort of extra-curricular instruction in anything that I wasn’t already deeply interested in — I got a late start on…
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Why We Still Need Saul Bellow (And Bernard Malamud And Philip Roth)
This Month Anne Reads: “Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow” The three of them, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Phillip Roth were our first team offering to America. They won prizes. They were the talk of the town and all the towns across the English-speaking world. Although their roots were in poorer places, their ambitions…
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Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser’s Excellent Israeli Adventure
Our Israeli Diary, 1978: Of That Time, Of That Place By Antonia Fraser Oneworld Publications, 176 pages, $16.99 Even on vacation, writers may not be able to set aside their vocation. And so we have this spikily charming diary by the British biographer and memoirist Antonia Fraser, a chronicle of a 15-day trip to Israel…
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