The Tribe at the Oscars, 2016
The big megillah, the Oscars, are being presented on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 4PM (ABC). Here are the verified Jewish nominees in all but the technical categories. Non-Jewish nominees are in lower case letters.
Best Picture—This Oscar goes to the film’s principa…
At the Movies: Opens Feb. 19
“Race” is the first dramatic film about Jesse Owens, the great African-American track star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics, which were held in Nazi Germany. The film covers Owens’ college career, his difficult time as a movement grew in the U…
At the Movies: Opens Friday, Feb. 12
“How to Be Single” doesn’t sound like ground-breaking fare: it’s a bunch of lightly connected stories that follow about a dozen unmarried New York City singles as they look for love and/or hook-ups. Still, it’s usually interesting to see how we…
“Tribe” Woman on the Frontier and Caesar
Opening last Friday, Jan. 29, was “Jane Got a Gun”. NATALIE PORTMAN, 34, stars in this Western as a married ranch woman who has to enlist the help of a former lover, whose heart she broke (Joel Edgerton), to help protect her and her young dau…
African-American, Jewish, and More
It’s a coincidence, but on the Martin Luther King holiday I noticed that I had a number of ‘trending’ pop culture items about Jews who are also African-American. Let’s start with the movies: opening on Friday, January 29, is “Fifty Shades of Bl…
