Curt Schleier is a freelance writer and author who covers business and the arts for a variety of publications. Follow him on Twitter at @tvsoundoff.
Curt Schleier
By Curt Schleier
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Culture What he talks about when he talks about Mel Gibson
Now appearing in Nathan Englander's new play in San Diego, 'West Wing' star Joshua Malina has some choice words for the star of 'Lethal Weapon'
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Film & TV Actress Selma Blair reflects on her health, her career and on being Jewish
Despite a strong Jewish upbringing, she says in an interview, "I never felt Jewish enough"
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Culture How Ben Foster’s faith and family helped to make him a ‘survivor’
In a new HBO film about boxer Harry Haft, the actor pays homage to his grandmother who escaped pogroms in Romania to come to America
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Culture Nominated for 13 Oscars, she hasn’t won one yet — that’s a record
Diane Warren is the Susan Lucci of the Oscars
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Culture How the Wild West was won (with the help of some little-known Jews)
Before Gene Autry. Before Roy Rogers. Before all that, there was Bronco Billy, a star of the 1903 film “The Great Train Robbery,” which is widely considered to be the first American western. Bronco Billy was played by Gilbert M. Anderson, better known to his family as Maxwell Aronson, the sixth child of Henry and…
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Culture How the son of an Auschwitz survivor made it (really) big on Broadway
This season, the hottest director on Broadway is a 75-year-old son of Holocaust survivors. Fresh off “Mrs. Doubtfire,” the musical adaptation of the Robin Williams vehicle, Jerry Zaks is putting the finishing touches on “The Music Man,” which opens in February starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. “Yeah, it’s unbelievable,” said Zaks remarking on his…
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Culture Why reading Elie Wiesel — and his posthumous new book — can offer us new hope
During Elie Wiesel’s lifetime, he wrote over 40 books, including seven collections of profiles of Jewish sages. “Filled With Fire and Light,” a posthumous eighth volume, was released this month. It is a treasury of previously unpublished lectures about the lives of biblical prophets, talmudists and leaders of the Hasidic world. Though it may sound…
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Film & TV How Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Scenes From a Marriage’ converted to Judaism
Israeli director-writer Hagai Levi is the creative force behind such major international successes as “In Treatment” and “The Affair.” His latest project, currently airing on HBO, is a five-part reimagining of Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes From a Marriage,” the seminal 1973 Swedish miniseries about the slow but inexorable disintegration of a marriage. Levi’s version is intense,…
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Opinion The Christian right wants schools to teach the Bible — but doesn’t understand what the Bible is about
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Opinion Steve Bannon wants Jews to ‘hard weld’ to Christian nationalists. Not so fast
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Fast Forward Some imagine a ‘President Josh Shapiro.’ Here’s what he said about Biden after the debate.
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