PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at grisar@forward.com and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Culture Judge Dismisses Much Of Woody Allen’s Amazon Case
Woody Allen’s $68 million lawsuit against Amazon suffered a major setback July 31, as much of the director’s case was dismissed. In a decision filed Wednesday, a federal judge in New York ruled that four of Allen’s claims against Amazon Studios should be tossed out, Deadline reported. Siding with Amazon on a partial motion to…
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Culture Remembering Herman Melville’s Epic Poem Of The Holy Land – Jews And All
In 1857, at a personal and professional low, Herman Melville made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Since Melville was short of funds, his father-in-law financed the trip. Melville, whose 200th birthday is August 1, was reeling from a string of literary flops, beginning in 1851, with the release of his then-maligned and misunderstood “Moby-Dick.”…
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Culture Yuval Noah Harari Insists The Russian Edition Of His Book Doesn’t Change The Facts
The exact content, if not the nature of the lessons, in Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” may be lost in translation. Harari has faced a backlash in recent days after news broke that the Russian edition of his latest book elided criticisms of Vladimir Putin and substantially changed a…
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Culture Michael Flug, Caretaker And Maker Of Civil Rights History, Dies At 74
Michael Flug, a civil rights, labor organizer and the longtime Chicago library archivist for the Midwest’s largest collection of African American historical documents, died July 11. He was 74. Flug’s life was one committed to service. As a student at Columbia University, Flug was active in CORE – the Congress of Racial Equality, a leading…
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Culture Q&A: Steven Greenhouse on labor’s past, present and future
'We talk about American exceptionalism, and one thing that’s exceptional is corporate power in America is much stronger'
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Culture Tarantino’s “Hollywood” Has A Polanski Problem
This post contains major plot spoilers for “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” In “The White Album,” Joan Didion famously described the atmosphere of California in the aftermath of the Tate murders. “I remember all of the day’s misinformation very clearly,” Didion wrote, “and I also remember this, and wish I did not: I remember…
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Culture Watch Out, Waiters, David Brooks Is Coming For You
When you have a soapbox like The New York Times opinion page, you can be forgiven for thinking the world may want to hear your every thought. When it’s David Brooks, though, we’re all ears! Watch out, folks, this take is hot! Waiters are 87% friendlier as they hand me the bill and I’m about…
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Culture Q&A: Photographers Jay Maisel And Stephen Wilkes On Their New Documentary And The Shots They Missed
When photographer Jay Maisel made the tough, but financially inevitable, decision to sell The Bank, his 35,000 square foot studio and home on Manhattan’s Bowery, Stephen Wilkes knew he had to commit its final days to film. The result is “Jay Myself,” a brisk documentary tour of Maisel’s past captured through the packing up of…
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