By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Several years ago, my brother Matthew sent me a link to some YouTube videos featuring a production of Fiddler on the Roof done in Japanese. It seemed strange at first. But as an ESL teacher, I’ve come to appreciate various world cultures. In the Far East, the tug […]
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast“What happens when idealism becomes power?” –Todd Salovey By Eric George Tauber CARLSBAD, California–When we look at history with the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to dismiss how dire a situation really was. After all, we won. But the storyteller’s art is to bring us back to that moment when all was nearly lost and
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Eric George Tauber, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — Perhaps I should recuse myself from reviewing John Is A Father because its star, Sam Anderson, is one of my favorite actors. In addition, he is one helluva nice guy. So it’s especially magical to see him turn himself into a taciturn, fearful, ex-alcoholic loner onstage.The play was written
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By Eva Trieger CARLSBAD, California — In conjunction with the 23rd Lipinsky Family Annual San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, Rosina Reynolds becomes Golda Meir under the direction of Todd Salovey. William Gibson has been celebrated for writing the longest running one-woman Broadway show in history. The magnitude of this story of the Russian immigrant who
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — The Seagull marked Anton Chekhov’s first critical success at the Moscow Art Theatre. Putting both Chekhov and Director Konstantin Stanislavsky on the cultural map, the MAT adopted the seagull as its logo and ushered in a new era of theatre. So why update it? Why mess with a
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWarsaw (dpa) – Poland’s justice minister will appeal against the decision of a Krakow court not to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the United States, he said Tuesday. The 82-year-old Oscar winner pleaded guilty in California in 1977 to unlawful sexual intercourse with then-13-year-old Samantha Geimer. He fled to Europe in 1978 before his
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThough Samantha Montgomery spent years posting YouTube videos of herself looking into a camera and singing, she never expected that anyone was looking back—much less someone with the power to completely change her life. Montgomery was born in Chicago and raised in Indiana. By the late 2000s, she was living in New Orleans and working
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — In September of 1978, three nations’ leaders, US President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met for thirteen days on an isolated hilltop to iron out the Camp David Accords. Who got the shorter end of the stick depends on whose analysis one
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Princess, an Israeli film making its DVD debut May 24, deals with an uncomfortable subject: the sexual abuse of children in their homes. In this case, 12-year-old Adar (Shira Haas) likes to have tickle fights with Michael (Ori Pfefer), the boyfriend of her mother Alma (Keren Mor). But
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker Joe Fab screened his latest effort, Not the Last Butterfly, in a sneak preview at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles on May 3. Fab co-directed and co-produced the story of a global project to memorialize the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust with first-time
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Shor M. Masori, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As luck would have it, our backstage tour of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego’s Balboa Park came the day before the opening of Camp David, a play by Lawrence Wright which premiered in Washington D.C. and now has its second opening here, at one of America’s
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Middle East, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA
Jewish upbringing helped celebrated deaf actress break barriers to success Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin said the best thing to do for people “who have special needs is to communicate with them.” Marlee Matlin and actor Henry Winkler, a longtime friend and mentor, at the Walk of Fame Ceremony honoring Matlin in Hollywood, May 6, 2009;
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Jewish Religion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Cannes, (dpa) – The world could do with a little more magic as it faces up to grinding poverty and extreme inequality, three-time Oscar winner Steven Spielberg said on Saturday as he launched his new fantasy adventure film at the Cannes Film Festival. “All of us believe in magic,” said Spielberg at a press conference
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastActress Charlotte Gainsbourg is to star in a provocative new comedy which parodies deep-rooted anti-Semitism in France, its director said Thursday. “The Jews” — titled “They are everywhere” in French — is being shot by Gainsbourg’s partner, the actor and director Yann Attal, who starred in Steven Spielberg’s film “Munich” about the massacre of Israeli
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