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...editors of Israel's two leading daily newspapers are now sitting in jail while authorities investigate allegations that the press barons ordered illegal wiretaps against each other as part of an all-out circulation war. Today, dozens of police poured into the Tel Aviv headquarters of Yediot Ahronot, the country's largest daily, carting off crates of documents and detaining the publisher and two top editors for questioning. The editor of Yediot's main competitor, Maariv, has been under arrest since Saturday. "It's a black day for journalism," said Israeli Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni, who took time to remind...
...show business. In 1980 Shear Madness was capitalized at $60,000. Since then it has grossed $54 million while playing to 3.8 million people in 23,000 performances in the U.S. (St. Louis, Philadelphia and Austin as well as the cities mentioned above) and around the world (Montreal, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Budapest)-but never in New York City, the titular capital of live theater. Many audience members are repeaters, genial cultists; they come back bringing their friends and looking for the differences in each performance. Some fans even make pilgrimages to cities where the show has just...
...theme, so it is hardly surprising that Song of the Sirens is set against the backdrop of the Gulf War. What makes it unusual--and refreshingly so--is that the film is a romantic comedy about looking for love while Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles are headed for Tel Aviv. Says its director, U.S.-born Israeli Eytan Fox: ``Israeli films tend to be ideological and socially and politically oriented. No wonder Israelis run away from them as too heavy and morbid.'' Not so for Fox's Song of the Sirens: since opening last October, it has attracted 145,000 moviegoers...
...movie is based on a 1991 best-selling novel by Irit Linur and follows the zigzag entanglements of Talilah Katz, a thirtysomething advertising executive who fits easily into Tel Aviv's chic yuppie milieu and is representative of the modern, liberated young Israeli women contemptuous of the macho and militaristic values woven through their society. ``A fine movie, well produced and well acted,'' summed up l`Isha, a women's publication, and added, ``For a change, Tel Aviv doesn't look like it is part of a third-world country.'' Fox financed his $600,000 film from government grants...
...from crossing daily from the West Bank and Gaza Strip--a form of collective punishment that serves only to inflame Palestinian anger. More than a hundred alleged militants were rounded up in the West Bank. Security forces were allowed to continue the tough interrogation tactics introduced after the Tel Aviv bus bombing. Since then the Israelis have arrested 1,500 Palestinians and claim that information extracted from the detainees has enabled the government to forestall three suicide attacks, one car bombing and the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier...