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Fast Forward Ed Sabol, Football Filmmaker, Dies at 98
Ed Sabol, founder of NFL Films, died Monday at his home in Arizona. He was 98. The NFL made the announcement on the league’s website. Sabol was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2011 for revolutionizing sports television. His company is owned by the NFL and produces most of the league’s behind-the-scenes video…
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The Schmooze Ziggy Gruber — A ‘Deli Man’ for All Seasonings
After spending an hour at Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen with young Forward reader, Galitzianer Yiddish-speaking third generation deli man Ziggy Gruber — a featured deli owner in the must see “Deli Man” — I was ready to jet to Houston, Texas where he and partner Kenny Friedman reign over a deli called Kenny and Ziggy’s and the…
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Culture Animation, ‘Archer’ and the Art of Offending
At the beginning of the sixth and current season of “Archer,” an animated spy comedy on FX, the title character, a handsome, womanizing secret agent, is sent to the jungle of Borneo to recover the computer from a downed American spy plane. While making his way across the island, Archer runs into a Japanese soldier…
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The Schmooze 12 Sibling Teams That Changed Hollywood
Getty Images Nancy, Anne and — who was that other one? — oh yes, Steven Spielberg aren’t the only siblings in film. In fact, the list is longer than you might imagine. 1. Joel and Ethan Coen If there’s one constant in the Coens’ collaboration, it’s the consistent high quality of their work: “Barton Fink,”…
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The Schmooze Why Nancy Spielberg Made a Movie About the Israeli Air Force
“Above and Beyond,” the documentary about the birth of the Israeli Air Force, started with an obituary. This according to the film’s executive producer, Nancy Spielberg. Yes, for the record, she is one of those Spielbergs. Yet, despite her impressive credentials — she served as a consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary, “Chernobyl Heart,” and executive…
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The Schmooze An Outsider Among Montreal’s Hasidim
In Quebec, the term “two solitudes” once described icy/cozy relations between the English and French. But in Maxime Giroux’s sublime “Felix and Meira,” which closes out this year’s New York Jewish Film Festival, the phrase seems apt for the Hasidim and hipsters of Montreal’s happening Mile End neighborhood, coexisting without actually engaging. The film’s title…
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The Schmooze I.B. Singer’s Wife Alma Dishes About His Women
After a screening of “The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer,” I replied to a chutzpedik questioner: “Isaac never hit on me!” A frequent visitor in the 1930s to my parents’ Leszno 6 one-room home in Warsaw when I was toddler, I reconnected with him in New York in the 1960s when he and my father…
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The Schmooze 10 Movies for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
It seems more than a little disturbing to talk about the Holocaust and good movies in one sentence, but the former has certainly inspired many of the latter. In fact, there is an embarrassment of riches. This is a good thing, because any effort to educate the world about the horrors of genocide is important….
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