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“Fine” Klu-Kluxers and Others During a Klu-Klux-Nazi rally in Charlottesville on August 11 to 12, 2017, civil rights activist Heather Heyer was killed when a Klu-Kluxer rammed his car into anti-fascist demonstrators. Donald Trump comments: “You had people that were[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Marilyn and a Guy Called Joe When Laurence Olivier directed Marilyn in The Prince and the Showgirl, she and Paula Strasberg her “dramatic coach” made him wish he had never been born. And after completion of the film, Larry went[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Black-and-White and Color In the old days, there were black-and-white films. Then color came in. There was Technicolor, and the cheapie versions were Cinecolor, Eastmancolor and trucolor. Color was mostly for luxury A-Films. It was a matter of cost. Later[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
What’s the Difference? and Other Political Aspects What’s the difference between Them and Us? Their scoundrels are imposed on them. We elect ours. You can force dictatorship on a population, But you cannot force democracy on a population. There’s[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
VALIE EXPORT Goes Guggeheim & Jewish Museum Read the entire story here
Willy, Herby and Harry: Better Late than Never The Assembly-Line Prince/Der Fießbandprinz was completed in 1973. I was 37 at the time. I had a real-life protagonist, Herb Andress. He was my age. I am now in my mid-eighties. My[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Film Accents and Contractions Have you noticed that in most American films set in foreign locations, the actors playing the foreigners use accents and they don’t use contractions? That is because, although they are actually speaking English, they want to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Catching an Image For three decades I’ve been passing the display window of a photographer in my neighborhood. He takes bad photos, and I have yet to find a good one in his window. My question is: can’t he take[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Samuel Laster, Founder & Editor of “Die Jüdische” Samuel Laster and I had a mutual friend, the late Ernst Meir Stern, a man of integrity. We miss him. We both had the privilege of being published his journal, Der Bund.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Whose side are you on? Here’s what I wrote about Napoleon: Yes, the Napoleonic Code was a remarkable and laudable document, but it was brought to other nations by the sword. Napoleon had no qualms about summary executions and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Cranes Are Flying The romance of Veronica and Boris is interrupted by the war. He is inducted. Veronica runs to the station, but his train leaves before they can say goodbye to each other. Boris carries a wounded[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Ken Curtis and the Sons of the Pioneers When I was in grade school I went to the B-western double-feature programs. One venue was the Garden Theater in Trenton. Here’s a description of getting there: The bus from Princeton arrived[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Bringing The Dead to Life John Huston brought James Joyce’s The Dead to life, or rather to the screen. It came to life in the sense that the beautiful Irish dialogue was spoken by the actors and heard by the[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Henry and Polonius My favorite Shakespearian characters are Henry V and Polonius. The Bard’s Henry is the most eloquent of men. He’s a warmonger who presents both sides of the argument beautifully and then makes the military choice. The French[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Henry V and The Westerner The two love scenes in films that are indelible to me are between Laurence Olivier and Renée Asherson in Henry V and Gary Cooper and Doris Davenport in The Westerner. In Henry, Larry playing Harry[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Pope Francis and Hitmen “Is it legitimate to take out a human life to solve a problem? Is it permissible to contract a hitman to solve a problem?” Human life is sacred and inviolable and the use of prenatal diagnosis[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
She’s gone now, softly slipping away into eternity, leaving her legacy of poems and artworks. I had the honor and privilege of translating her marvelous poems into English. Now I have qualms of conscience for not continuing and having done[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Art Houses of Yore I must have been born as a film buff, and at an early age, I developed into a foreign-film buff. I was pious in very young years, but in spite of my religiosity, I used[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The “Old Man” You couldn’t call John Wayne versatile. But you couldn’t say that he didn’t do what he did well. He was not that young when he became a star. He mostly played cowpunchers who were over the hill[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
