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Schuppe is working on a nonfiction narrative entitled “Ghetto Ball: A Coach, His Team, and the Struggle of an American City,” which focuses on a Little League baseball team in inner-city Newark coached by a paraplegic former drug dealer...
...mostly in Massachusetts, the movie was shot at Berlin's Babelsburg studio, where Polanski earlier created the Warsaw Ghetto for his most explicitly autobiographical film, The Pianist, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director in 2003. The Ghost Writer is unlikely to earn him such acclaim. The villainy surrounding its hero is vast but not, in Oscar terms, important; and there are a few giggle moments, as when one of Lang's women pops into the Ghost's bed. But we should hail a movie that recalls creepy political thrillers of the mid-'70s, back when some...
...last production of the classic Yiddish operetta, “Shulamis,” was performed in the Warsaw ghetto in 1939. On Dec. 2, this opera will reopen for the first time since, revived and reinvigorated with original, modern themes. “Shulamis” is the crowning achievement of Avrum Goldfaden, the poet and playwright widely considered to be the father of Yiddish theater...
...appearing open, honest and ready to stick to her principles. That's making it hard for Sarkozy to get rid of her, especially since she's one of the last visible people he turned to [in order] to create a racially diverse cabinet." (Read "Sarko-Fatigue in a Ghetto of the Rich...
...England via Germany by train, tracing the route of the Kinder-transport which spirited him from Prague as a five-year old boy in 1939. After learning that his mother was interred at a camp in Terezín in 1942, he visits the town’s Ghetto Museum, and is henceforth tormented by images of “the bricks of the fortification walls… the endless lists of names… the grass growing between the cobblestones...