By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — Every year, about this time of year, Christmas themed movies are flooding T.V. screens across the country. Ranked #9 out of 100 by the American Film Institute greatest films of all times is the 1947 beloved holiday comedy classic, Miracle on 34th Street. It is a warm feeling […]
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Coming to theaters Dec. 14 in Los Angeles and hopefully soon after that in San Diego is a Leon Marr film about life and love in a convalescent home. The Second Time Around stars Linda Thorson as Katherine and Stuart Margolin as Isaac. It also features the works
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Friends who have similar personalities and mannerisms sometimes joke about being “twins separated at birth.” It’s not a joke, however, to a set of triplets born in New York in 1961. They were together in the hospital until they were six months old, at which time they were separated
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel CARLSBAD, California — On my first visit to the New Village Arts Theatre for me last Sunday, I enjoyed a spritely performance of Miss Bennet, Christmas at Pemberley. Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon wrote this charming sequel to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. It is a delightful twist on Austin’s original
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Roger Ailes was an intelligent, complex, and perhaps conflicted human according to the documentary, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes directed by Alexis Bloom and produced by Alex Gibney. From a young age his classmates in Warren, Ohio, his hometown, considered him to be witty and intelligent. His
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastCNN wins StandWithUs plaudits for series on anti-Semitism StandWithUs has applauded CNN for its week-long series reporting on resurgent anti-Semitism in Europe during November, 2018. CNN commissioned a poll of over 7,000 European adults that found, “Anti- Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade… a third
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I watched the documentary There Are Jews Here more than 1 ½ years ago, and I will reprint below the review that I wrote for the April 15, 2017 edition of San Diego Jewish World. Now the documentary by Brad Lichtenstein is scheduled to air as part of
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “I know this Christmas, every wish won’t come true, but I’m dreaming of Christmas with you.” Everyone who has had a family member come back from a tour of duty knows that they never come back quite the same. You see in their eyes the dark shadows of
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By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Three years after she converted to Judaism, actress Marilyn Monroe made the Billy Wilder comedy Some Like it Hot in 1959 with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Now, almost 60 years later, this city across the bay from San Diego still remembers her vividly. The Hotel del Coronado, where
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Golden Shards is a new theatre company in town, one that divides its time between San Diego and New York. For director Alice Cash, it’s a homecoming. I remember Alice as a bright and bubbly highschooler writing the teen column for San Diego Theatre Scene. Now, she and
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes art dictates life. When I interviewed Perry Chen and his mom, Dr. Zhu Shen on Wednesday, I felt that art and life inform each other, with one or the other alternatively taking the lead. It has been six years since I met
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American Jewish Committee seeks nationwide effort to combat hate crimes The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is calling for a concerted government effort to combat hate crimes. The call to action comes after the FBI issued its latest annual report, which showed a 17 percent increase in hate crimes during 2017, compared to the year before.
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International, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee died Monday. As a memorial to him, here’s an excerpt from an article I wrote in 2003 about the first X-Men movie: The creators of the X-Men comic book series belong to the generation of American-born Jews who sought acceptance and social mobility through assimilation.
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Lawrence Baron, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The Matt Tyrnauer documentary Studio 54 tells of the meteoric rise of two Jewish business partners, their spectacular fall, and their efforts to reclaim their lives, one successfully, the other cut short by AIDS. Their names: Steve Rubell and Ian Shrager. They met at Syracuse University. Rubell was extroverted
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