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Steven Spielberg and James Gray’s semi-autobiographical films are loaded with Jewish content, but lack a Jewish sensibility
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Culture Did ‘She Said’ really need to talk about Harvey Weinstein at this particular moment?
At a time when antisemites are accusing Jews of controlling Hollywood, how do we talk about one who did?
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Culture An open letter to Dave Chappelle from the great-granddaughter of a Hollywood pioneer
A problematic SNL monologue triggers a panic attack and a plea for mutual understanding
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Culture How Paul Newman became the most beautiful boring man in the world
A new Paul Newman memoir reveals that there was less to the actor than met the eye
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Culture How that Barbra Streisand ‘Yentl’ joke wound up in the year’s biggest gay rom-com
Guy Branum on ‘Bros,’ being gay and Jewish, and why the star of 'Funny Girl' is a lot like gravity
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Film & TV The greatest Jewish Hollywood character you’ve never heard of
How a cigar-chomping producer named Maurice Duke became king of B (or maybe C) movies
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Culture In a new podcast, blacklisted filmmakers make a movie — and an FBI agent lets them
Jon Hamm plays a G-man spying on the production of 1954’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ in Audible’s ‘The Big Lie’
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