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By JTA
“The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” won the Academy Award for documentary short Sunday night.
By JTA
Palestinian “Omar” was best foreign-language film finalist, while Israel’s “Bethlehem” was eliminated early on.
By JTA
Alice Herz-Sommer, the 110-year-old Holocaust survivor and concert pianist whose life was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, has died. Herz-Sommer, who was believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor and was still playing the piano, died Sunday morning in London. “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life,” the 38-minute film about her […]
By JTA
If there is one movie that must be seen, it is the documentary of a Holocaust survivor now 110.
By JoeSettler
It is time that this hypersensitivity got toned down. Save it for real racism.
In the version of events provided by Argo, it wasn't radical Islamists who stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, but the Iranian people as a whole.
Of course, both movies portray Israel in a negative light, so calm down before kvelling.
By JTA
Marvin Hamlisch, the acclaimed composer and arranger of dozens of films and Broadway shows, has died at 68. Hamlisch died Monday in Los Angeles following a brief illness. He is best known for his work on the long-running Broadway musical "A Chorus Line," which won several Tony Awards and for which Hamlisch won the Pulitzer […]
By Tibbi Singer
If they ban him, does he not bleed, at least a little, on the inside? The Oscar folks appear to have had it up to here with the loveable, although as lowbrow as they come, British-Jewish star. Or maybe it was all his own idea. You figure it out.
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