Ahuva Ozeri passed away on Tuesday at the age of 68, after a long battle with cancer. The funeral date has not been set. Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein eulogized: “Ahuva Ozeri was a unique figure who blended East and West in an amazing way in her melodies and her lyrics. Her dedication to her work […]
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsYour browser does not support the video tag. JACKIE | OFFICIAL TRAILER | FOX Searchlight The legend is that the Kennedy family was cursed. The reality is that the Kennedy family was blessed with an unmistakably odd style of speech. “It doesn’t really sound like anybody else from Massachusetts,” says Amy Stoller, a dialect production
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe nominees for the 74th Golden Globe Awards have been announced. The 2017 Golden Globes Awards will be held Jan. 8 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Jimmy Fallon has been tapped to host the ceremony that will air live on NBC. Below is the complete list of nominees. ——— FILM ——— Motion
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastEsma Redžepova, the prominent and versatile Roma singer dubbed the “Romany music queen,” has died at the age of 73, hospital sources and her family said Sunday. The singer from Macedonia was one of the first vocalists in the Balkans to sing in the Romany language. She performed in some of the world’s greatest music
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsOn Monday, Kanye West took a trip to New York City reportedly in search of a finding a psychiatrist for when he visits the East Coast but it appears the rapper had other plans on his schedule as well. According to video from C-SPAN, the rapper, accompanied by his entourage, arrived for a meeting on
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USABy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — This past weekend I saw two intense biographical documentaries dealing with completely opposing viewpoints on the Holocaust. The first, Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe, told of the melancholy meanderings of the Austrian writer/playwright/philosopher who, at the height of his career in the 1920s and ‘30s was one of the
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By Eric George Tauber CARLSBAD, California — Once upon a time, families huddled around wooden boxes in rapt attention. The radio gave us our news, music, comedy and drama. Sound effects planted pictures in our minds and our imaginations took it from there. This was the world of Walton Jones’ 1940s Radio Hour playing at
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastIt’s not so easy for Saturday Night Live’s writers to satirize Donald Trump and the ultra-right government he is creating. The reality is more bizarre than any parody. This week’s SNL cold open began with CNN anchor Jake Tapper (Beck Bennett) greeting Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon) to discuss the president-elect’s latest cabinet choices: for EPA
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAHours after a report in the Washington Post said that the CIA had confirmed the 2016 presidential election had been influenced by Russia, Donald Trump took to Twitter to dispel some rumors. Despite how big of news the Russia story may have been, Trump focused on reports that he was still going to be involved
Stockholm (dpa) – Rock legend Bob Dylan said he had never considered winning the Nobel Literature award and was “honoured” to join “giants of literature” like Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Mann in a speech read on his behalf Saturday at the Nobel banquet. “If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAJoseph Mascolo, the actor who famously played “Days of Our Lives” villain Stefano DiMera since 1982, died at 87, Variety reported. He had Alzheimer’s disease. “It is with great sorrow that we share the news of the passing of our dear friend and beloved member of the ‘Days of our Lives’ family, Joseph Mascolo,”
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastSantos collects Nobel Prize in Oslo for deal with FARC Quotes anti-war song by Bob Dylan, 2016 literature winner Hopes Colombian deal can inspire peace talks elsewhere Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said an accord to end a 52-year civil war with Marxist rebels was a “ray of hope” for solving conflicts from Syria to
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International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsLondon (dpa) – British guitarist Greg Lake, who is counted among the founding fathers of progressive rock, has died at the age of 69. Lake, who gained fame as the frontman of King Crimson and rock supergroup Emerson, Lake and Palmer in the late 1960s and early 1970s, succumbed to cancer after a long struggle
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsHe’s ruggedly handsome with his trademark cleft in his square chin, a Hollywood film legend: Issur Danielovitch Demsky. Who? The world knows him as Kirk Douglas. And on Friday he turns 100 years old. A look at Kirk Douglas and his only-in-America career Los Angeles (dpa) – At Thanksgiving, Kirk Douglas’s daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones posted
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