Agatha Christie, sans antisemitism: New editions of novels scrub offensive language about Jews, Black people
Christie has long been scrutinized for using pejorative language to describe minorities
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The Schmooze Hold On To Your Hormones: Armie Hammer Signed On To Co-Star In Gal Gadot Movie
The festival of Sukkot may be over, but it’s still a z’man simchateinu — a time of rejoicing. For two of God’s most facially symmetrical children are officially making a movie together: Armie Hammer and Gal Gadot. Anti-Semites, prepare for sensory overwhelm. Deadline announced on Thursday that Hammer will join Gadot, who signed on to…
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Breaking News Gal Gadot To Star In New Agatha Christie Movie
(JTA) – Israeli actress Gal Gadot will star in 20th Century Fox’s “Death on the Nile.” The adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel featuring detective Hercules Poirot will be directed by Kenneth Branagh, Deadline first reported. Fox already has set a December 20, 2019, release date for the film based on the 1937 novel. Gadot…
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Breaking News Will David Wildstein Throw Chris Christie Under ‘Bridgegate’ Bus?
(Reuters) — A former ally of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the George Washington Bridge closure scandal, while two others were indicted – another blow to Christie’s image at a time when he is trying to get his presidential campaign off the ground. David Wildstein, a…
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Culture Many Mysteries of the Word ‘Mystery’
Forward reader Marvin Karp, inspired by my July 29 column about the word “macabre” and its possible connection with the Hebrew verb kavar, to bury (a connection that, as I observed, etymologists dismiss in favor of “Maccabee”), writes: “I have always sensed a connection between kavar and Italian cavare, to draw out, and scavare, to…
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The Schmooze Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot vs. Hitler
Agatha Christie (1890–1976), has long been underestimated by readers and fellow writers alike, despite her 80 novels which have sold a reported four billion copies. For example, the astute mystery writer P. D. James, in her newly published “Talking About Detective Fiction,” complains that Christie, with her “pasteboard characters,” has not had a “profound influence…
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