Bernie Sanders surprised Stephen Colbert Monday, a day before the West Virginia Democratic primary, with a simple message: He is not giving up. During the cold open of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Colbert had just gotten his hand stuck in a vending machine trying to retrieve a 100 Grand bar, when in […]
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFrance is gearing up security for the Cannes film festival set to kick off this week with bomb sweeps, hundreds of extra police and the help of a former Israeli general, as the country faces its highest-ever terror threat. The 69th Cannes Film Festival comes six months after Islamic State jihadists launched coordinated attacks in
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — As I write this the AOL news feed has forty-two items – fourteen of which are about the activities of various “celebrities” – including the clothing they wear (and malfunctions thereof), their romantic/marital escapades, legal and criminal entanglements, as well as their political opinions. Why a “celebrity’s” political opinion is
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California – Now, I may have been mistaken, but I’m fairly certain I saw the ghost of William Faulkner give a standing ovation at the final curtain of Way Downriver, currently extended at North Coast Repertory Theater in Solana Beach. Well, maybe it was another erudite Southern gentleman with sad eyes
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By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO -If you’re old enough to remember Virginia Slims cigarettes, then “Rapture, Blister, Burn” will be a great blast from the past. Clearly, playwright, Gina Gionfriddo, did her homework, and delivers a well-researched, detailed time line of the Feminist Movement. It is no surprise that she was awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO –If you had a chance to dine with celebrities and bigwigs, would you feel delighted, intimidated … or both? This was a once in a lifetime opportunity offered to Eric Hanes, the late father of Dr. Ann Charlotte Harvey, Professor Emerita of SDSU’s School of Theatre, Television and Film.
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWar and peace. The line between the two is often razor-thin. For people caught up in conflicts, war does not begin with a single shot, or end with the signing of a treaty. It is a continuum that may start with sporadic hostilities and end only after generations. In this year’s Hot Docs film festival,
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If you didn’t have the chance to watch the John Goldschmidt comedy film Dough at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival in February, you will have another chance when the film begins an exclusive run at the Landmark Theatre May 6. It’s an enjoyable tale about an old Jewish
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Fifteen years after their liberation from Auschwitz, three female survivors have found each other and decide to celebrate their reunion at the French beach resort of Berck-sur-mer, in To Life, a film by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann. Although the women want to simply enjoy the moments, their repressed memories from
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — The Playwrights Project has once again proved that it does not shy away from weighty or unpopular topics. “I’M GOOD: Incarcerated Men Getting Over Obstacles Daily,” is the collaborative effort of the playwrights of the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. Partnering with the SDSU School of Theater, Television and Film,
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Eric George Tauber, Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & BroadcastAs the world marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Monday tweeted that he too, is a fan of The Bard, and highlighted “The Merchant of Venice” — famous for its derogatory depiction of Jewish moneylender Shylock — as being in “accordance with Western values.” “I have read
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe Lebanese Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement has demanded that the government ban the screening of the new Hollywood movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, because it stars Israeli actress Gal Gadot, according to the Lebanese reports. Gadot, who is cast as Wonder Woman, was the subject of scrutiny in a letter the
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastB”nai Brith in Montreal is urging officials to refuse the French performer Dieudonne from entering into Canada. Dieudonne has multiple convictions and fines for making anti-Semitic statements against Jews in France and Belgium. The controversial comedian, who routinely makes jokes about gas chambers and has publicly denied the Holocaust, is booked to play 10 shows
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThere ain’t no limit on bad luck. If there was, I’da run out years ago.” By Eric George Tauber SOLANA BEACH, California — Adapted from ‘Old Man’ by William Faulkner, Way Down River takes us to the Parchman State Penal Farm, Mississippi, 1927. Aikins has returned nine weeks after he had been presumed drowned in a
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