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...from the first day," hissed the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné. "Hit the masses with shock and awe." Lévy claims he couldn't care less about his image, only the books. He defends French intellectuals for being right when governments were wrong: in the 1930s against fascism, in the 1950s against France's colonial presence in Algeria, in the 1970s against the Soviet Union, in the 1990s against the Serbs in Bosnia. "It's always easier to be a fascist than a democrat," he says. "Daniel Pearl was killed because he was a living refutation...
NOWHERE IN AFRICA. This year’s Oscar winner for best foreign film sheds new light on the exodus of one small group German Jewish refugees in the late 1930s. It’s the tale of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer who goes to Africa to live with the European expatriate community (which is now mostly Jewish) in and around Nairobi. After opening with scenes of his family’s comfortable home life back in Germany, the film depicts the Redlichs adapt to their new home on a desolate Kenyan farm and struggle with relationships between family...
DIED. VERA ZORINA, 86, star ballerina turned Hollywood actress of the 1930s and '40s; in Santa Fe, N.M. Born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Berlin, she was married for eight years to George Balanchine, who choreographed her performances as a sultry nymph in the 1938 film The Goldwyn Follies, the angel in the Broadway musical I Married an Angel and the lead muse in his 1943 ballet, Apollo...
NOWHERE IN AFRICA. This year’s Oscar winner for best foreign film sheds new light on the exodus of one small group German Jewish refugees in the late 1930s. It’s the tale of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer who goes to Africa to live with the European expatriate community (which is now mostly Jewish) in and around Nairobi. After opening with scenes of his family’s comfortable home life back in Germany, the film depicts the Redlichs adapt to their new home on a desolate Kenyan farm and struggle with relationships between family...
Behind these shocking declarations is a business that has produced stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans dating back to 1930s Charlie Chan movies, and more recently, take-out delivery boys and kung fu masters who only speak broken English. The stereotypical overachievers in academia have been spectacular under-achievers in cinema, with their roles largely consigned to these typecast pigeonholes...