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curt schleier
@tvsoundoff
Writer (Investors Business Daily, The Forward), critic (Seattle Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune), author (How to Think Like the Masters of M&A)
Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Just curious @bariweiss but did you come out and defend your reporter?
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French director Rebecca Zlotowski (“A Private Life” starring Jodie Foster) believes their are differences between American and European Jews. She explains in this interview:
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/a-private-life…
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@realjunesquibb, 96, stars in Marjorie Prime on Bway, and, no thanks, she doesn't need an ear device to feed her lines. She's got it memorized. Read this and thenask yourself if you'd like a Prime to keep you company.
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/aging-at-cente…
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@KEVINGOETZ360, whose company runs movie biz focus groups, didn't think Barbie film would work. But as he explains in How to Score in Hollywood, it wasn't his fault. He's watched 5,000 films and is still a fan.
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/lights-cameras…
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Actor Jason Kravits has achieved the pinnacle of character actor fame: he's become that guy. He currently stars in the hilarious ecstatically reiewed and recently extended 25th annual Putnam County spelling bee. That's spelled H-I-T. He explains all here:
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/i-am-that-guy/
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Betsy Aidem, 68, was a pre-teen when she began prepping for her role in the Broadway production of Liberation -- a play about a female consciousness raising group im 1970s Ohio. And, yes, you heard right. There is some nudity.
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/liberation-tim…
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Jonathan Jacubowicz explores 30 years worth of schism in Israeli politics in doc "Soul of a Nation." It's a primer that sadly leaves so much out: Haradi draft dodgers, violent settlers and a bribe-taking prime minister. Go figure.
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/soul-of-a-nati…
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I came for the story but stayed for the Shabbat meal. Blue Bloods spinoff Boston Blue @bostonbluefans does an interesting take on the Reagans' Sunday get-togethers. They still do pre-meal blessings, but on the challah & wine
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/a-jewish-cop-s…
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Fiddler on the Moon: Jews in Space sounds like a Mel Brooks farce, but as @neiltyson says in the film: "There are Reform Jews. Chasidic Jews. So it wouldn't be so bad to have a band of Jews, the Martians." Nominated for a Critics Choice best doc short.
njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/theyll-put-the…
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@benstiller's moving documentary about his patents, Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost is part a tribute to the pair and part a very successful psychotherapy session for the director.
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/a-son-displays…
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@saulrubinek doesn't think Merchant of Venice is anti-semitic. In Playing Shylock at Brooklyn's Polonsky Shakespeare Center he argues Shylock was the first 3-D Jew ever presented on stage, 1 who bleeds when he's cut laffs when tickled.
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/hath-not-a-jew…
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@pbs @AmExperiencePBS doc Kissinger reveals shades of gray: he's neither the nonster nor savant some consider him to be. Airs Monday and Tuesday, and, of course, check local listings.
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/everywhere-all…
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The producer says Red Alert (streaming on @Paramountplus) is not a political film. But he's wrong. You can't make a movie about Oct. 7 --especially one this good -- wihout it being political.
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/being-alert-to…
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The film Truth & Treason asks in these times, who is brave enough to be rebellious. Its setting is Nazi Germany, where three young men stood fast against fascism. But its message is timely today.
njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/truth-treason/
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Would you believe one of the year's most delightful books, from @BloomsburyPub , is about tubas? By Sam Quinones
startribune.com/sam-quinones-t…
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