Currently Browsing: May 2011
Shout out to Israeli director Joseph Cedar who won the Best Screenplay award @ the Cannes Film Festival today! Cedar’s latest film Hearat Shulayim (aka Footnote) stars Lior Ashkenazi–best-know for Late Marriage (2001) & Walk on Water (2004)–plus a cast of relative unknowns (that’s “relative” from the perspective of someone who makes it a point to […]
The most common honorific for the dead in Judaism is “zikhrono livrakha” (abbreviated as Z”L) meaning “of blessed memory.” The Hebrew transliterations are “zikhrono livrakha” (m) & “zikhronah livrakha” (f). Click HERE for more details.
From Tzivi’s May ’11 Spotlight: On April 9, we lost Sidney Lumet, one of America’s best and most successful filmmakers. In the course of his long and brilliant career, Lumet made over 40 films, 14 of which were nominated for Academy Awards in multiple categories. Some of Lumet’s films, like 12 Angry Men, Serpico, and […]
From Tzivi’s May ’11 Spotlight: On page 33 of his new memoir I’m from Division Street, there’s a picture of LA attorney Kenneth N. Green standing side-by-side with TV star Robert Conrad. Can any guy this handsome also be really, really smart? Yes! While acknowledging his own natural endowments, Green’s point is that many Jewish […]
From Tzivi’s May ’11 Spotlight: On April 10, over 300 women in their best spring finery congregated at the Bryn Mawr Country Club in Lincolnwood for ORT’s annual fund raiser Lunch with a View. This year’s theme was “Savoring Our Traditions,” and the special guests were cookbook mavens Poopa Dweck (author of Aromas of Aleppo) […]
From Tzivi’s May ’11 Spotlight: On April 10, over 300 women in their best spring finery congregated at the Bryn Mawr Country Club in Lincolnwood for ORT’s annual fund raiser Lunch with a View. This year’s theme was “Savoring Our Traditions,” and the special guests were cookbook mavens Poopa Dweck (author of Aromas of Aleppo) […]
On April 9, we lost Sidney Lumet, one of America’s best and most successful filmmakers. In the course of his long and brilliant career, Lumet made over 40 films, 14 of which were nominated for Academy Awards in multiple categories. Some of Lumet’s films, like 12 Angry Men, Serpico, and Network, defined their times. Others, […]
We recently mourned the loss of Budd Schulberg (who won an Oscar for his On The Waterfront screenplay & also wrote A Face in the Crowd as well as the famous TV adaptation of his novel What Makes Sammy Run?), but it turns out Budd had an equally talented brother named Stuart Schulberg who played a major role […]