Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Shia LaBeouf Arrested At Live-Streamed Anti-Trump Protest

Shia LaBeouf was arrested during his livestreamed anti-Trump protest early Thursday morning at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York. The actor and performance artist was charged with misdemeanor assault. LaBeouf, 30, was continuing his four-year protest called “He will not divide us,” which began Friday when Donald Trump was sworn in […]

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

60 Jewish films to be shown at 12-day festival

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 27th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center  will run February 8-19. The 12-day Festival is the largest Jewish cultural event in San Diego and draws over 17,000 attendees annually and 97 film screenings.

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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Beckett’s genius on display at L.A.’s Odyssey

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — What could be more overwhelming than a play by Samuel Beckett?  How about FIVE plays by Samuel Beckett? Ron Sossi, the fearless founder of L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre and its Artistic Director, has built his reputation on the innovative, unique, and sometimes quirky theater productions he has undertaken in the Odyssey’s

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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Mike ‘Mannix’ Connors Is Gone at 91

Mike Connors, the star of the long-running television series “Mannix,” passed away Thursday afternoon at the age of 91. Connor’s son-in-law, Mike Condon, revealed that Connors died due to complications from pneumonia, which had been diagnosed a week earlier. Connors’ most well-known work was that of private detective Joe Mannix on the CBS television series

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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Mary Tyler Moore, TV icon who symbolized independent career woman, dies at 80

Mary Tyler Moore, the multiple Emmy-winning actress who first charmed TV viewers on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in the 1960s and became a beloved TV icon who could “turn the world on with her smile” on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in the 1970s, has died. She was 80. In a career that began

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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Israeli-born Natalie Portman nominated for Oscar

Israeli-born actress Natalie Portman was announced on Tuesday as one of the nominees for this year”s Oscars. Portman was named in the best actress category for her performance in “Jackie”, a biographical drama which follows Jackie Kennedy in the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. Portman, who was born

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Aziz Ansari took to the ‘SNL’ stage and delivered some stand-up logic to Trump

“Saturday Night Live” couldn’t have planned a better guest host for its inaugural-weekend show than Aziz Ansari. Or at least that’s the conclusion many came to after the writer-actor-comedian delivered the opening monologue. Ansari, who made a name for himself as Tom Haverford on “Parks and Recreation,” is now co-creator and star of his own

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Docu on PH rescue of Jews debuts in Israel

A Filipino filmmaker will premiere this week in Tel Aviv his documentary on how the Philippines provided refuge to some 1,300 Jews fleeing from the Holocaust. According to Philippine ambassador to Israel Neal Imperial, ‘An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines’ by Noel Izon will be shown at the Cinematheque Tel Aviv on Jan.

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International, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘SNL’ Writer Suspended for Tweeting Barron Trump Joke

Since winning the election in November, Donald Trump hasn’t taken very kindly to how he has been portrayed by Saturday Night Live. He’s bashed the long-running sketch comedy show on three spearate occasions over the past three months, often singling out Alec Baldwin’s impersonation of him. But SNL wasn’t any tougher on Trump than they

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Meet Allison Schroeder, the NASA-loving writer of ‘Hidden Figures’ who was just nominated for an Oscar

Allison Schroeder was on the playground in 1986, chasing a friend around the slide, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. As a first-grader, she was confused by the blast visible from her neighborhood, just 30 minutes south of the launch pad in Cape Canaveral. So she looked toward her teacher, who’d begun to cry. That’s

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Academy Awards 2017: Complete list of nominations

LOS ANGELES — The nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were revealed Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. “La La Land” did what 800-pound gorillas are supposed to do: dominate the Oscar nominations tally, pulling down 14, including actor, actress, director and picture. Ava Duvernay’s “13th” joins “O.J.: Made in America” among best documentary feature nominees,

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Closeted composer suffered in Czarist Russia

“Nothing is perfect in Nature. Nature is perfect imperfection.” -PI Tchaikovsky By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO–When Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky listened to birdsong, he noticed that they were just a little less than perfect, but these imperfections made them more beautiful. And so he threw some “wrong” notes into his arpeggios, making them more natural

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Hershey Felder brings to life composer Piotr Tchaikowsky

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — In The Great Tchaikowsky, Hershey Felder’s latest piece, which is breaking sales records at the Lyceum Theatre in downtown San Diego, Felder does Tikun Olam, working to repair the world, by sensitizing us to the suffering of the gay Russian composer and casting a light on the persecution of the

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast