On the fringes of Hollywood history
There are so many good little documentaries hidden away in various nooks and crannies of the Amazon Prime catalogue. Last night I watched a 54-minute gem, “The Man Who Saved Ben-Hur,” filmmaker Joe...
View ArticleRecalling New York City’s Yiddish theaters
A terrific exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York immerses visitors in a part of the city’s theater scene that vanished around the middle of the 20th century. “New York’s Yiddish Theater: From...
View ArticleThe spellbinding new Brando documentary
Working from a recently discovered cache of private audiotapes that Marlon Brando made over many years, writer-director Steven Riley has come up with a unique documentary portrait of the great actor,...
View Article‘Brando’s Smile’: cutting through the myths
Working from personal material that only became available after his death, Susan L. Mizruchi cuts through much of the mythology surrounding the life and career of a great actor in “Brando’s Smile,”...
View Article‘Eye’: the woman who invented (and reinvented) herself
Immortalized as the crazed editor in “Funny Face” and presented as herself in the hit off-Broadway play “Full Gallop,” Diana Vreeland was — up until the emergence of Anna Wintour — the most celebrated...
View ArticleIn the silence of my lonely room
I saw a very impressive new play, “Songs & Statues,” at the Stella Adler Studio in Manhattan Saturday night. The piece by Peter Nickowitz (left) was developed over the last year at the famed acting...
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