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Category Archives: Hollywood
The Last Station
Jane emails: We saw The Last Station, the story of Leo Tolstoy’s tempestuous marriage. The take away: you can’t live with love and you can’t live without it. Helen Mirren and the director were there afterward for a Q&A. Tolstoy … Continue reading
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Tagged aristocratic life, helen mirren, leo tolstoy, peasant, publishing rights, tempestuous
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Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
I read this book when it came out. It’s a good read and a good window into post-apartheid South Africa and the World Cup rugby final that united a nation. Now it is being made into a movie directed by … Continue reading
Posted in Hollywood, Rugby, South Africa, Sports
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A Serious Film?
Rabbi Benjamin Blech writes for Aish.com: Stay until the very end of all the credits at the conclusion of the Coen brothers new movie, A Serious Man, and you’ll see something I’m certain has never been done before in the … Continue reading
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Tagged book of job, coen brothers new movie, history of hollywood, hollywood cinema, rabbi benjamin blech
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The Coen Brothers On Judaism
From the Boston Globe: Earlier in the evening, I had attended a screening of the remarkable new Coen brothers film, "A Serious Man,” hosted at Brandeis by the National Center for Jewish Film. The film is being compared to Job … Continue reading
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Tagged boston globe, coen brothers film, hebrew school, jewish concepts, jewish film, pastoral counsel
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The Story Of The Hasidic Actors Guild
Yisrael Lifschutz writes: HAG: The Story of the Hassidic Actors Guild is a serio-comic (HAG logo "Pay Us For Payos") hybrid of fact and fiction focusing on the life of Ysrael "Izzi" Lifschutz who has served as an actor and/or … Continue reading
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Tagged basketball hall of fame, jcc of manhattan, jcc on the palisades, jewish film festival, kaplan jcc, sports hall of fame
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