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Fast Forward Muslim Protests Over Film Spread to E. Jerusalem
Fury about a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad tore across the Middle East on Friday, including the Palestinian territories, with protesters attacking U.S. embassies and burning American flags as the Pentagon rushed to bolster security at its missions. Protests erupted for the first time in Gaza and the West Bank. In East Jerusalem, Israeli…
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Fast Forward Anti-Islam Film Sparks More Angry Protests
Protests continued outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and protesters stormed the U.S. embassy in Yemen over an anti-Muslim film. Protests over the film, which was said to have been made by a Jewish director with Jewish financial backing but was later disproved, had already led to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya…
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The Schmooze Josh Radnor on Talmud and ‘Liberal Arts’
John Radnor is best known for his role as Ted Mosby, the central character in the hit CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.” But that’s likely to change as he continues to flesh out his resume as a talented film writer and director. His first feature, “Happythankyoumoreplease” (2010) had, in his words, “a really…
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Fast Forward YouTube Blocks Anti-Islam Movie in Egypt, Libya
YouTube, the video website owned by Google Inc, said on Wednesday it would not remove a film clip mocking the Islamic Prophet Muhammad that has been blamed for anti-U.S. protests in Egypt and Libya, but it has blocked access to it in those countries. The clip, based on a longer film, depicts the prophet as…
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Fast Forward Egypt Islamists Plan New Protest Over Film
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, whose political party propelled the nation’s president to power, called for a nationwide peaceful demonstration on Friday to condemn insults to Prophet Mohammad, a senior official said on Wednesday on the group’s website. The statement followed a protest in Cairo on Tuesday in which some demonstrators scaled the U.S. embassy walls and…
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Fast Forward U.S. Envoy to Libya Killed Amid Muslim Riots
The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad. Gunmen had attacked and burned the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of…
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Culture Exile on Second Street
Director Chantal Akerman was back on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. She was standing in front of her audience at Anthology Film Archives, a film society so hip that there was a line of people around the block, still waiting to get into the screening of her newest movie, “La Folie Almayer,” a very loose adaptation…
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The Schmooze Ari Graynor on Jewish Mothers and Phone Sex
What do two nice Jewish girls in Manhattan do when they’re short on rent? Silly question. They open a phone-sex line, of course. That’s the premise of “For a Good Time Call…” which opens in select cities August 31 and nationally in September. It may sound silly, but the plot is loosely based on fact….
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