The prostitution plot in John Turturro’s ‘Fading Gigolo’ is little more than a comic foil to the love story between his character and Avigail…
Woody Allen could turn a phrase, even at a young age. His resume from 1965 has surfaced, including the gem that he wasn’t ‘interested in writing any movies that I would not be in.’
Difficult to believe but all these things seem to be actually in the news. It must be Purim.
Primo Levi is most commonly remembered as a Holocaust survivor and memoirist, but given his relentlessly humanist concerns, we would dishonor him by forgetting that he was also a man made of more than just his time at Auschwitz. In fact, Levi had two great loves: science — he trained as a chemist at the University of Turin — and writing, penning 14 books.