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Fast Forward Steven Spielberg is writing and directing a movie based on himself
(JTA) — Steven Spielberg’s newest project is on a subject that he’s quite familiar with: He will direct and co-write a movie loosely based on his childhood in Arizona, Deadline reported Tuesday. Tony Kushner, the Jewish playwright who wrote “Angels in America” and has collaborated with Spielberg on “Munich” and “Lincoln,” is working with the famed…
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The Schmooze Drop everything — Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” is coming to Disney+
If you knew me as a child, you knew one thing about me: I was Not Allowed To Watch Disney Princess Movies. My parents, who envisioned me growing up unhindered by gender norms to become a computer-coder-slash-marine-biologist-slash-WWII-historian, instituted a blanket ban on tales of marriage-minded aristocrats. And I embraced it — for several years, it…
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The Schmooze Golden Globe nominations foretell big wins for subsequent moviefilms — maybe
The 2021 Golden Globes should be Sacha Baron Cohen’s big day. The British actor, possibly the only person Jewish enough to dress up as an antisemitic stereotype without getting smacked down by the ADL, received two big nods from the awards program. He could snag a Best Supporting Actor award for his role in the…
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Culture She didn’t go to Hebrew school, but she she made an extremely accurate movie about it — a conversation with Olivia Peace
The most important scenes in “Tahara” take place where the best shul drama goes down: the ladies’ lounge. Possibly the most important amenity a synagogue can offer, the ladies’ lounge features way too many wicker baskets, a selection of castoff artwork incorporating the phrase “tikkun olam” and a well-worn couch conducive to dawdling and dishing…
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Culture In Brighton Beach, a gay teen seeks easy answers and finds only enigmas
When “Minyan” debuted in late February 2020, you were probably hoarding toilet paper or stocking up on the wrong kind of canned goods. In other words, doing anything but paying attention to the latest in indie Jewish cinema. That’s a shame. The film, which is getting something of a do-over at this year’s all-virtual New…
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Culture How Slovakia’s Oscars contender revived two forgotten Holocaust heroes — an interview with Peter Bebjak
When Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba escaped Auschwitz in 1944, they didn’t just save themselves. The two men, both Slovak Jews, used data secretly compiled during their time as sonderkommandos in Auschwitz to write the eponymous Wetzler-Vrba report, which provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the death camp’s infamous gas chambers. Publicized by…
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Yiddish World Why ‘Hester Street’ meant so much for Jewish women (and for Yiddish)
Before 'Hester Street,' Jewish American women characters who looked and acted 'too Jewish' were often ridiculed
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Film & TV Can we separate Roman Polanski’s excellent new film from its director’s contemptible past?
“An Officer and a Spy,” Roman Polanski’s 2019 movie about the Dreyfus Affair, is spare, modern and steeped in controversy. If it weren’t for the horses and high boots, you’d forget you’re watching the past. If it weren’t for the fact that Polanski directed it, you would have seen it by now. The movie does…
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