Harold Woof was childhood buddies with Pinter, and his book”paints a nostalgic but unsentimental picture of his boyhood friendship with Pinter in east London and of the other members of the ‘Hackney gang’ – a small band of firm friends who met at Hackney grammar school in the early 1940s. As Jews, Woolf and Pinter were sometimes set upon by local fascist thugs, Woolf recounts, but Pinter, who was a talented schoolboy sportsman, gave as good as he got.”
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New Film ‘The Death of Stalin’ Is A Madcap Farce – But In Russia, They’re Not Amused
The satire by Armando Ianucci (creator of Veep) is getting great early reviews in Britain (The Guardian‘s critic called it the movie of the year). The Russians beg to differ – even though no one there has seen it and the distributor hasn’t even applied for a license for it yet. A pro-Kremlin newspaper pro-Kremlin newspaper called the film “a nasty sendup by outsiders who know nothing of our history”; one politician said it was a “planned provocation” and another described it as an “unfriendly act by the British intellectual class … [part of an] anti-Russian information war.”
Public Art In Hollywood Removed After Harvey Weinstein Scandal
The piece is a fiberglass sculpture of a daybed, the pinnacle of “The Road to Hollywood,” a large and complex installation by artist Erika Rothenberg. It was removed Thursday from its perch at Hollywood & Highland, the shopping mall adjacent to the theater where the Academy Awards are handed out. In the eyes of some, an innocuous daybed became a casting couch.
Doing Stand-Up Comedy In East Asia Means Getting Your Act Past The Censors
“In Asia, where a youthful stand-up comedy scene is still developing, comedians in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia are finding creative ways to tell jokes about sex and politics, while coming up against cultures of censorship and taboos.”
Canadian Literature At A Crossroads?
“Part of me fears the parameters that are being placed on writers whose voices have not traditionally been heard, whether it’s to be “authentic” (however we decide to define it), to be representative of their culture or to be the interpreter for a group of readers that’s assumed to be a mainstream/white readership.”
Tig Notaro Says She’s Cautiously Optimistic About The Whole Harassment Discussion Actually Occurring
Earlier this year, Notaro spoke out against fellow comedian Louis CK. Now, she says, “I feel like there is hope. I feel like it’s cracking the glass.”
How To Fail At Running A TV Show Before You Save It
Christopher Rogers of Halt and Catch Fire:”We call it redefining the story of losers. History seems to gravitate toward narratives centered on big personalities, so when you talk about this world, you talk about Steve Jobs, Bill Gates. If you talk about search, you talk about Google. But it’s so much more complex than that. It’s millions of people in obscurity who did most of the heavy lifting, only to have somebody step in and get the credit.”
The 102-Year-Old Artist Who Paints The Past Century Of Jewish Life In Europe And Israel
The story is quite amazing: “The artist, Tova Berlinski, was born in 1915 in the Polish town of Oswiecim, better known by its German name — Auschwitz. Newly married, she and her husband left for what was then known as Palestine in 1938, a year before the Germans conquered Oswiecim and began building the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp on the edge of town.”
Immersive Theatre, The Final Frontier: Your Living Room
Or your basement, if you’re the producers of these immersive theatre nights in the Bay Area. What if you and the other 20 people there hate the show? Well, there’s food. “Preshow offerings include wine, cheese and charcuterie. Postshow a whole buffet is served.”
Finding ‘Allah’ In Viking Graves Opens Questions About Scandinavian History
For one thing, “the evidence, she added, supported the theory that the Viking settlements in the Malar Valley of Sweden were, in fact, a western outpost of the Silk Road that stretched through Russia to silk-producing centers east of the Caspian Sea.” But was there a deeper cultural and religious exchange as well?