Currently Browsing: August 2010
Way back in the mid-80s, near the start of my career in healthcare consulting, I took my father to 222 South Riverside Drive to see my office at Coopers & Lybrand. (That’s way back when the huge public accounting firms were known as “the Big 8,” long before C&L became part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.) He immediately […]
Royal Pains just ended its second season with an episode called “Open up Your Yenta Mouth & Say Ah,” in which Hank makes fun of a new patient named “AJ” by calling her a “Yenta Mouth.” The implication is that even though AJ is a gossipy widow, team HankMed should just indulge her because she’s a paying customer. […]
From Sept ’10 Spotlight: Israeli filmmaker Samuel Maoz’s first feature Lebanon won a slew of well-deserved technical awards from the Israel Film Academy last year including Art Direction, Cinematography and Sound Design. A harrowing account of Israel’s 1982 invasion, Lebanon is set completely inside the sweat and steam of a battle tank. Much like Saving […]
NOTE: This review was originally published by the World Jewish Digest on 12/1/03: “I was alone the first time I saw SCHINDLER’S LIST. I avoided all the reviews, took a vacation day, and went to the first show by myself the day it opened in Chicago. Determined to seek my own counsel and make up […]
Ruba Nadda’s new film Cairo Time is about an American magazine editor named “Juliette” (played by Patricia Clarkson) who travels to Cairo for a vacation with her husband “Mark” (Tom McCamus). But Mark never shows up, throwing her into a romance with local man named “Tareq” (Alexander Siddig). Altho Clarkson does a lovely job conveying the multiple emotions of a […]
The Chicago YIVO Society is proud to have hosted a reception for LA-based filmmaker Lynn Ross on Sunday evening Aug 22. The reception at Phoenicia Restaurant followed a screening of Roth’s new film The Little Traitor at the Highland Park Theatre. Here is Roth’s description of The Little Traitor as it appears on IMDb (the Internet […]
From July ’10 Spotlight: The highlight of this year’s Printers Row Lit Fest was a visit from Adam Langer, here to promote The Thieves of Manhattan, a new novel that takes aim at the New York publishing industry. Fresh off his recent memoir My Father’s Bonus March, Langer explores the line between fact and fiction […]
From July ’10 Spotlight: Cinema/Chicago, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest, will show the 2004 film Avanim as part of this year’s International Summer Festival… Meanwhile, the Gene Siskel Film Center (on State Street) has screenings of The Girl on the Train scheduled from July 11 through July 14. Set […]
From July ’10 Spotlight: Cinema/Chicago, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest, will show the 2004 film Avanim as part of this year’s International Summer Festival. Avanim (Stones) is a closely-observed, first-person film about “Michale.” Michale’s life reaches a crisis point when her father is drawn into plans to fund the expansion […]
From July ’10 Spotlight: My Memorial Day Weekend began early with a trip to the Milwaukee Public Museum to hear Professor Emanuel Tov of Hebrew University lecture on “The Scribes of the Dead Sea Scrolls.” After decades of analysis, the Dead Sea Scrolls, originally discovered in 1947, are still a source of public fascination and […]