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The Tribe at the Emmys: 2018 Edition
The Primetime Emmy awards will be televised, live, on NBC on Monday, Sept. 17, at 7PM CDT. I think it’s useful to note that number of nominees in most categories was expanded in 2017 and while the number of Jewish nominees ha…
Neil Simon Often Had the Touch
NEIL SIMON, the famous playwright, died on August 25, age 91. The day before, I stumbled on a Youtube video that noted that 40 of the most famous current working screenwriters were asked in 2017 to name the 100 best screenwriters of all-time and they selected …
Operation Finale
“Operation Finale”, which opened on August 29, is a dramatization of the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 by Israeli Mossad agents. Eichmann, of course, was the SS officer who headed-up the round-up of European Jews during the Holocaust. There is a lot of …
At the Movies and Coming Up
“The Happytime Murders,” which opens on August 24, is stylistically a cross between a Muppett movie and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” The director is Brian Henson, the son of the late Jim Henson, who created the Muppets. The premise is that Muppet-like pup…
At the Movies: Opens August 10
“Dogs Days” is a romantic comedy that seems appropriately titled. It’s a breezy little movie that doesn’t tax your mind during the summer heat. We are all familiar, now, with the ensemble anthology film—a bunch of strangers have something in common (…
