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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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A Turkish Magazine Was Just Shut Down For A Cartoon About Moses
According to a report by the Agence France-Presse (AFP), the magazine Girgir, at one time Turkey’s most successful satirical magazine, was shut down today after the publication of a cartoon depicting Moses. The AFP wrote that the cartoon showed “the bearded Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt, with his companions complaining and using vulgar…
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How Did Aaron Copland’s ‘Fanfare For The Common Man’ Get Its Name?
For the latest episode of WNYC’s Fishko Files, a radio show dealing with art and culture, Sara Fishko, the show’s host, tackled an old American classic – Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare For The Common Man” which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. On her program, Fishko invites scholars of music and history to discuss the genesis…
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An Anti-Immigration Bill Becomes Law, And More Of The Forward Looking Back
100 Years Ago After a long and difficult struggle, the enemies of free immigration have won a battle. The Burnett Anti-Immigration Bill will become law despite a presidential veto, and will go into effect in May. However, those who support free immigration can take a bit of solace because the anti-immigration forces were compelled to…
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Film & TV Why An Iranian ‘Death Of A Salesman’ Makes Arthur Miller Even More Relevant
Midway through Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman,” Emad, the actor and schoolteacher who serves as the Oscar-nominated film’s protagonist, seizes one of his student’s phones, hoping to delete photos the student has taken of him sleeping. He castigates the boy for the risqué images he finds, telling him his father needs to look at them. A…
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Could This Home Movie Be The Only Film Footage Of Marcel Proust?
A scholar from the Université Laval in Quebec just unearthed the only known film of French author Marcel Proust, best known for his monumental work “In Search of Lost Time.” (It is interesting to note, for our purposes at least that Proust, though raised a Catholic and perhaps anti-Semitic and was therefore Jewish by birth. Exclu…
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Wallace Shawn Knows Exactly Who His Audience Is: You
It starts, as so many cultural events in New York do, with the invited guests milling around a tastefully decorated space, plucking canapés from trays held aloft by caterers, and eyeing each other as they wait for the speeches to begin — the pitches and thank you’s and asks for money. Looking around at the…
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Film & TV Why Lincoln Center’s Paul Newman Screening Is A Must-See
When Nicolas Rapold, editor of Film Comment, sits down on Monday February 20 for a Q & A with the director-acting teacher Jack Garfein and the composer David Amram during a program of films called “Newman Directs,” he will be speaking with two 86-year-old men with unusually interesting things to say about the evening’s subject…
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The Secret Jewish History Of Theater’s Most Famous Skull
Children are often told they can be anything they want when they grow up; they’re less commonly informed that the same rule applies when they die. After all, the philosopher Jeremy Bentham requested that his body be embalmed and put to service as the mascot of University College London, where his physical remains still cheerfully…
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The Ruins Of Palmyra Have Been Memorialized Online, But Is That Enough?
“The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh caused Allende to be forgotten, the din of war in the Sinai desert drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the massacres in Cambodia caused the Sinai to be forgotten, and so on, and on and…
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Nazi Art Dealer’s Looted Collection Will Receive First Exhibits Next Fall
After a series of stops and starts, the art hoard of Cornelius Gurlitt — which will never stop sounding like the title of a sequel to “From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” — will receive its first public exhibits this fall. As The New York Times’s Alison Smale reported, the Kunstmuseum…
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Want To Filter Out Fake News? The French Have an App For That
The French newspaper Le Monde launched a new tool today called Décodex to help readers verify the reliability of information. In a remarkable email to the newspaper’s subscribers, Camille Joly, director of subscription services, described how Décodex combs through 600 websites in order to better analyze “news.” The new tool is intended to help readers…
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