Theatre, Film & Broadcast

His cup runneth over: 17th Annual Celebrity Sonnets

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Once again, the San Diego Shakespeare Society filled our ears with verse at the 17th Annual Celebrity Sonnets held at the Old Globe. Local personality Richard Lederer, clad in a velvet doublet and melon breeches, read an original sonnet in memory of the society’s founder, Alex Sandie, The […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Film on Antonio Lopez interesting yet sad

By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Creative people have magnetism, a force, an affect all their own.  Antonio Lopez, a fashion illustrator and trend setter, was that kind of person. Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco, a documentary directed and written by James Crump and produced by James Crump and Ronnie Sasson, introduces us to

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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘Hay Fever’ has audience squirming

By Eva Trieger OCEANSIDE, California — What do you get when you combine an aging melodramatic actress, a volatile writer, their two self-absorbed adult children and four unwitting guests? A riotous collection of awkward moments, flaring tempers, emotive displays and loads of fun. Mira Costa College Theater School Director, Eric Bishop, brings us Noel Coward’s delightfully

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Editor’s E-Mail Box: September 25, 2018 (4 items)

German court dismisses appeal against Kuwaiti Airways discriminatory policy A German court in Frankfurt on Tuesday rejected an appeal by an Israeli passenger barred from boarding a Kuwait Airways flight because of the airline’s strict policy of banning all Israelis. The case had been brought by the Israeli, represented by The Lawfare Project, after he

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International, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Joyce Forum Short Film Festival’s special joys

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Joyce Forum Short Film Festival is triply new.  It will screen on October 6th and 7th at the David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family JCC separately from the San Diego Jewish Film Festival becoming the first Jewish shorts film festival in the world.   As the

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Lawrence Baron, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Scaffolding movie constructs troubled youth’s story

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO —  Scaffolding, a Hebrew-language film with English subtitles, is a story of Asher (Asher Lax), a troubled 12th grade student, whose temper gets him in trouble with teachers, administrators, and other students alike.  Asher has no respect for boundaries, nevertheless he has about him an innate sense of justice. 

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Intelligent Lives’ tracks 3 adults with mental disabilities

Intelligent Lives, a documentary by Dan Habib, scheduled for release September 21. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Intelligent Lives, a documentary by Dan Habib about the high potential of people with mental disabilities, is scheduled for New York City release Sept. 21 and around the country thereafter.  Narrated by Chris Cooper, whose son

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Playwright tells story behind ‘Mikva’ Musical

  By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — More than twelve years ago, a friend of mine, Myra Gutterman, came to me with a creative new idea. She had decided to record and transcribe the experiences of balaniot (mikva attendants) and of women who use the mikva (ritual bath), to be performed as a show

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Jewish Religion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Toby Klein Greenwald

High marks for Spike Lee film probing Klan

By Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee ‘s recently released film, covers  the early years  of the Black Power Movement in the 1970s , and  most importantly exposes  the Klu KLux Klan’s  insidious  agenda  of racism,  and Anti-Semitism in America. BlacKkKlansman is  based  on the life of  Ron Stallworth who served as 

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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA