Marc Maron (September 27, 1963) is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer, actor, and musician. [Wikipedia]
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Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974) was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator. With a career spanning 60 years, he is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of the Cold War, coining the term “stereotype” in the modern psychological meaning, as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 Public Opinion. [Wikipedia]
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Parents worry about their wayward teens, elderly parents are denying their physical limitations, and the “sandwich generation” is trying to figure out how to navigate the amorphous unchartered landscape between these two bookends. [Eva Trieger]
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Jerry Bruckheimer (September 21, 1943) is an American film and television producer. He has been active in the genres of action, drama, comedy, fantasy, horror and science fiction. [Wikipedia]
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Venezuelan documentary film maker Jonatan Jakubowicz made the 108-minute Soul of a Nation with a decided point of view. He had witnessed the transformation of Venezuela from a democracy to an authoritarian state in league with narco-terrorists. The Jewish Jakubowicz feared that polarization in Israel similarly might lead to that country’s dissolution. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Anne Meara (September 20, 1929 – May 23, 2015) was an American comedian and actress. Along with her husband Jerry Stiller, she was one-half of the prominent 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. [Wikipedia]
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Today's Jewish Birthday, WikipediaThere is no shortage of familiar celebrity names featured in the films. The Opening Night film will showcase Julia Roberts in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt. Another highly anticipated film, Rental Family, stars Brendan Fraser. The eagerly awaited film, Fantasy Life, features Amanda Peet and Alessandro Nivola. [Eva Trieger]
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Eva Trieger, International, Israel, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAScheduled to open Sept. 26 in theaters around San Diego (AMC, Angelika, Cinepolis, Regal, The Lot) is a remarkable Holocaust movie, Bau, Artist At War revealing the initial meeting, romance, and surreptitious wedding of Joseph Bau (Emile Hirsch) and Rebecca Tannenbaum (Inbar Levi) in a women’s barracks at the Plaszow Concentration Camp . [Donald H. Harrison]
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For the San Diego show, the best-known comedian was Cohen, who performed as himself but also as his alter ego Nofar Levi — a woman who gives unfiltered advice on navigating Israeli life (pro tips: don’t bother to wait in line and don’t be too polite). The character also held an audition to be her husband, while grilling other audience members to see whether or not they’d be granted security clearance to enter Israel. The act was clearly a crowd-pleaser. [Jacob Kamaras]
‘Laugh Through The Heartbreak’ Comedy Show Cuts Through Dark Times Read More »
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Ray Danton (September 19, 1931 – February 11, 1992) was an American radio, film, stage, and television actor, director, and producer whose most famous roles were in the screen biographies The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) and The George Raft Story (1962). [Wikipedia]
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Stella Goldschlag committed suicide in 1994. She would possibly have saved many lives had she done it 50 years earlier. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Les Misérables is based on the novel written by Victor Hugo in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean undergoes many sacrifices to stay alive and hide his identity. He suffers punishment, prison time, and even fakes his own death. [Cailin Acosta]
‘Les Miserables’ Prompts the People to Sing Read More »
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Peter Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo on the NBC/ABC series Columbo (1968–1978, 1989–2003), for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a Golden Globe Award (1973). [Wikipedia]
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The middle age- senior women are looking at the ghosts of their younger selves and reminiscing about who they were and what they had hoped to be when they were in their heyday and comparing it to where they are now. {Sandi Masori]
‘Follies,’ with Marvelous Singing, First Offering at the Joan in Liberty Station Read More »
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