Barbra Streisand remains the single most powerful and enduring female Jewish cultural figure of my lifetime, writes Glenn Frankel. ...
When the state of Israel turned 30 in 1978, its supporters in Hollywood threw a star-studded party. What changed? ...
ITâS NOON ON A BLISTERING BRIGHT August day in the northern part of the West Bank city of Hebron. Iâve
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ITâS NOON ON A BLISTERING BRIGHT August day in the northern part of the West Bank city of Hebron. Iâve
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No one enjoys looking in the mirror more than Hollywood, and no one does it betterâas vastly entertaining show-biz movies like Joseph L. Mankiewiczâs All About Eve, Billy Wilderâs Sunset Boulevard and Quentin Tarantinoâs Once Upon a Time in Hollywood can all attest. Now comes Mank, David Fincherâs loving and ...
The great French film director Jean-Luc Godard called Ben Hecht a âgeniusâ who âinvented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood today.â Yet most modern American Jews have likely never heard of Hecht, despite his eminence as a playwright, best-selling novelist and screenwriter of a host of Hollywood film ...
Reviewed by Glenn Frankel ...