Legions of Barbra Streisand fans have welcomed the news that she plans to star in a film version of the musical ‘Gypsy.’ But Benjamin Ivry thinks it’s the wrong role for her — and maybe she should bow out.
A controversy-courting Jewish television host apologized for a rant against the Roma people.
Germany remembered the Holocaust’s forgotten victims on Wednesday by opening a memorial in the heart of Berlin to the half a million ethnic Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazis.
From “Papa, can you hear me” to Mama Rose: Musical-theater fans and Barbra Streisand cultists are plotzing over the news that La Streisand has reportedly met with composer Stephen Sondheim and playwright Arthur Laurents to discuss starring in a film version of “Gypsy,” their classic 1959 musical.
A joint Hindu-Jewish crusade against the abuse of European Roma issued a statement Monday calling on European leaders to stop treating the ethnic group as “pariahs.”
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