PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Fast Forward Stan Lee’s Former Business Manager Charged With Elder Abuse
On May 10, the Los Angeles Superior Court charged comic book legend Stan Lee’s former business manager and caretaker Keya Morgan with multiple accounts of elder abuse, including false imprisonment, forgery and fraud committed over the course of Morgan’s relationship with Lee. The court issued a $300,000 warrant for Morgan’s arrest, CNN reports. Morgan, a…
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Fast Forward Rahm Emanuel: Chicago ‘Did Not See Me As A Jewish Mayor. They Saw Me As A Mayor Who Was Jewish.’
Outgoing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sounded off about anti-Semitism and his leadership style on a May 13 episode of “Chicago Tonight.” When asked by interviewer Paris Schutz if he believed anti-Semitism played a role for those who opposed his mayorship, Emanuel took a broad historical view. “A trope of anti-Semitism – the threat of anti-Semitism…
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Culture No Gefilte Here, But There’s Plenty Jewish At The First Academic Conference On Phish
Begining Friday, May 17, Oregon State University will host the first ever academic conference on the jam band Phish, a rock quartet formed at Vermont’s Goddard College and known for its virtuosic improvisation, legendary concerts and devoted following. One of the panels will be devoted exclusively to Phish and the Jews. What’s Jewish about Phish?…
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Culture Did Susan Sontag Write Her Ex-Husband’s Most Famous Book?
A new biography of Susan Sontag reveals that the late author’s first published book may well have been released under another name: That of her ex-husband. The sociologist Philip Rieff, whom Sontag married in 1950, launched his career with his 1959 book “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist.” (The book was released in the same…
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Culture Stan Lee May Be Getting A Statue In New York City — Here’s What We Think It Should Look Like
The world today hardly needs a reminder of comic legend Stan Lee’s contribution to our culture. The latest Marvel movie, “Avengers: Endgame,” is currently the second-highest grossing film of all time. A quick trip to Times Square will yield sightings of building-length billboards with Lee’s super-powered creations and about a score of people in bootleg…
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Culture ‘Mod Squad’ And ‘Twin Peaks’ Star Peggy Lipton Dies At 72
Peggy Lipton, the star of the late boundary-pushing 1960s series “The Mod Squad” and the 1990s cult hit “Twin Peaks” died Saturday at the age of 72. “We are heartbroken that our beloved mother passed away from cancer today,” her daughters, the actresses Kidada and Rashida Jones said in a statement to the LA Times….
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Culture How Eli Valley’s Art Started An Anti-Semitism Scandal At Stanford
It began on Thursday, May 2, when members of the Stanford chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) posted flyers with cartoons by Eli Valley, a Jewish political cartoonist known for his provocative drawings of right-wing and Jewish figures. Soon after, Nazi-era propaganda appeared in freshman dorms. By May 7 one of The New…
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Culture Elizabeth Warren Wants To Scrub Sackler Name From Harvard Campus
Massachusetts Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has officially voiced support for removing the Sackler name from buildings at Harvard University. Warren, a former law professor at Harvard, told CNN of her position through an aide on Wednesday. The Sackler family are both the majority owners of Purdue Pharma, which manufactures the opioid OxyContin,…
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