Comedian Trevor Noah can’t recall the moment himself. But he says the scene in the Johannesburg delivery room when he was born was more than a bit uncomfortable. “I came out and there was just an akward pause,” recounts the host of The Daily Show. “All of these doctors are standing around, and there is […]
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast1606, 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 & BroadcastFox 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
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, USASAN 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 & BroadcastGwen 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, USARobert 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, USABy 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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“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 & BroadcastWonder Woman is going to be a mommy again! Gal Gadot, who plays Diana Prince in “Batman v. Superman” and the upcoming “Justice League,” revealed on Sunday that she is expecting her second child with husband Yaron Versano. The Israeli actress made the announcement on Instagram by posting a picture of her and her husband
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast“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, USAAt the end of Thelma & Louise, the 1991 film for which Susan Sarandon is probably most famous, the two titular characters drive off a cliff instead of surrendering to law enforcement. The decision is lethal, but principled. The film’s final frame shows their blue Ford Thunderbird flying with slow, deadly grace into the Grand
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — How far can you run from yourself? Playwright Ayad Akhtar gives us Amir, a man born in America to Pakistani Muslim parents. But he describes his heritage as “Indian” because Americans find it less threatening. Amir calls the Koran “one long hate-mail to humanity.” He felt that he
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –This past week, I enjoyed watching some scary zombie movies on Hulu and Netflix; it’s a custom I have kept since I was a boy of seven or eight years old. Halloween was always a fun time for me as a child. Watching scary movies still remains
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