What does it mean to do the right thing? Does it mean playing by the rules or breaking those rules when they’re unfair? What would you do to secure your child’s future in a better, safer school? Would you break the law if you felt you had no other choice? [Eric George Tauber]
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Published by AFP Los Angeles (AFP) – New Disney superhero film “Black Widow” took in an estimated $80 million in North America this three-day weekend, a pandemic-era record as the Marvel Universe showed continuing lure, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The movie, starring Scarlett Johansson as the cat-suited superspy, took in an additional $60
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Scarlett Johansson has “no plans” to return to playing Black Widow. The 36-year-old actress has played Natasha Romanoff and her superhero alter-ego in several Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies, and recently took on the role in her own solo movie after the eponymously titled ‘Black Widow’ movie hit cinema screens
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Scarlett Johansson is reportedly pregnant. The 36-year-old actress – who already has daughter Rose, six, with her ex-husband Romain Dauriac – is expecting her first child with husband Colin Jost and it won’t be long until she gives birth, multiple sources confirmed to the New York Post newspaper’s Page Six
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Henry Winkler wants to see the US reunite. The 75-year-old actor – who played Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli in ‘Happy Days’ – has taken to Twitter to bemoan perceived divisions in American society. He wrote on the micro-blogging platform: “We are So divided as a country .. only a cataclysmic Event
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In August 2016 in Berlin my younger daughter and I visited the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, and Holocaust exhibits at the Jewish Museum Berlin. It seemed that Germany was doing rather well with coming to terms with the country’s horrendous crimes against Jews and others during WWII. [Phyllis Zimbler Miller]
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International, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
In the July 4, 2021 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
–An Israeli TB diagnosis patch could save up to 1.4 million lives a year.
–Israeli experts are helping rescuers in the Miami building collapse.
–Israeli scientists have developed a material two atoms thick.
–Two Israeli startups make record-breaking public launches.
–Israeli teenagers win gold at European gymnastics competition.
–Israeli mother donates her kidney to save a Gaza boy.
[Michael Ordman]
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While the sixties saw a boom in Jewish culture (the Fiddler and Yentl movies, the Anne Frank play, Woody Allen, Barbara Streisand, etc.) the tradition of covertly Jewish characters continued for decades more. And that brings us to The Princess Bride. Blond, British Wesley and his peasant-to-princess Buttercup read as goyish. They’re the heroes, fighting the spoiled prince who won’t let them fall in love. However, basically every other character reads as a European ethnic minority –if not Jewish then honorary mishpucha. [Valerie Estelle Frankel]
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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Published by BANG Showbiz English Gal Gadot has given birth to her third child. The ‘Wonder Woman’ actress and her husband Yaron Varsano have welcomed daughter Daniella into the world and the proud parents and their older children, Alma, nine, and three-year-old Maya, couldn’t be happier. Gal shared a family photo on Instagram featuring all
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Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Friedman – a longtime friend and trustee of the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) and La Jolla Playhouse – passed away Monday, June 21, in his home at the age of 69. [News Release}
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Published by DPA Jerry Seinfeld is taking his longtime infatuation of Pop-Tarts to Hollywood. The Emmy-winning funnyman is set to direct, produce and star in “Unfrosted,” a new Netflix comedy about the iconic brand of breakfast pastries. According to reports, the comedy is inspired by one of Seinfeld’s stand-up bits where he talks about the
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Published by Reuters By Norma Galeana (Reuters) – Marilyn Monroe is back in Palm Springs, California, in a big way – but not everyone is thrilled. A 26-ft (7.9-m) tall statue of the Hollywood icon in her famous billowing white dress was unveiled in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum, facing Palm Canyon Drive,
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Published by New York Daily News “Sesame Street” featured two gay dads and their daughter in a groundbreaking episode celebrating diversity and inclusion. In an episode entitled “Family Day,” which premiered last week on HBO Max and YouTube, the beloved children’s show has a scene in which Nina (Suki Lopez) introduces her brother Dave (Chris
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastIn the June 20, 2021 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
[Michael Ordman]
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