Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Jordan, Abdul-Jabbar, Scully to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

NBA legends Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Barack Obama named 21 recipients for the honor on Wednesday that included the three sports icons. The medals, the nation’s highest civilian honor a president can award, will be presented at the White […]

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Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Did the Bard crib from another book on King Lear?

  1606, Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro published by Faber and Faber, 2015. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When I picked this book up at Luton airport, as I was about to board a plane, I thought I was going to read a historical novel. I couldn’t have been more

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Megyn Kelly thinks Roger Ailes would still be running Fox News if he had not been sued for sexual harassment

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly believes Roger Ailes would still be her boss today if former colleague Gretchen Carlson had not sued him for sexual harassment. Appearing Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the first stop on the tour for her new book “Settle for More,” Kelly noted that Fox News contracts include arbitration clauses

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Israeli actress Dana Ivgy to teach at SDSU

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) —  Israeli actress Dana Ivgy will serve as a visiting lecturer at San Diego State University this spring. Ivgy, a multiple Israeli film award winner, will be in San Diego from Jan. 15 to May 5th. Ivgy is lecturing at San Diego State University through the Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artists Program, which is

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

62 films slated for upcoming S.D. Jewish Film Festival

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 27th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run February 8-19, 2017. The 12-day Festival is the largest Jewish cultural event in San Diego and draws over 17,000 attendees annually

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Veteran PBS Journalist Gwen Ifill Has Died; She Was 61 Years Old

Gwen Ifill, the host of “Washington Week” on PBS and co-host of the PBS “NewsHour,” is dead at the age of 61, according to reports. Ifill joined PBS in 1999 as both the moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week,” the network’s Sunday-morning talk show. In 2013, PBS named Ifill co-host of the PBS “NewsHour,”

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Robert Vaughn, star of ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ dies at 83

Robert Vaughn, who became an international TV star in the 1960s playing suave and debonair superspy Napoleon Solo on “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” while also playing a role in the era’s anti-war movement, died Friday. He was 83. Vaughn died after a brief battle with acute leukemia, his manager, Matthew Sullivan, confirmed to The Associated

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Corporate raider drama comes to the L.A. stage

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — If Lawrence Garfinkle comes to your town, be wary!  And be afraid.  Be very afraid.  Garfinkle, known to his fellow Wall Street stockbrokers as “Larry the Liquidator,” is known to be ruthless, relentless, and rich.  When he comes to town you can be sure somebody’s struggling business is about to be “restructured.”

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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Women play all the parts in SDSU’s ‘ Julius Caesar’

“And we are governed with our mothers’ spirits. Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.”  –(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Sc 3) By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Years ago, I had an artistic residency with a group of fourth graders doing a condensed version of Julius Caesar. I put to them this question: Who

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘SNL’ Skewers the Media’s Role in the Rise of Trump

“Is the whole world insane?” Kate McKinnon played an exasperated Hillary Clinton in the cold open to “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, incredulous at the prospect of holding just a slim lead over Donald Trump despite his unfitness for office. The show placed blame on the media in offering a sketch that mocked network television’s

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA