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Cinema Europe's hero is Abel Gance, who in the 1927 Napoleon harnessed an epic delirium unmatched before or since. "Here," Gance said, "was a new alphabet for the cinema." But with the entry of talking films that year, the language of silents became as obsolescent as Yiddish. Films got chatty, conservative; they still are. Most modern directors don't know Gance's "alphabet." They can barely spell...
Without much success, she searches for her father's family in northeastern Ohio. But the clever immigrant boy who taught himself to speak English without an accent (and who spoke several other languages, though never Yiddish) left little trace. His daughter's book turns frantic, and to some extent loses direction, as it becomes clear that she is not going to find David Gordon at the precise point of shame and bitterness when the immigrant experience persuaded him to construct a disguise. There are two great losses here. A little girl loses her father's hand in a swirling crowd...
Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart called their script "a scenario for vaudevillians." Zaks' triumph is to pay homage to the days of Yiddish slapstick while using actors too young to have played the Catskills. Luckily, he has Nathan Lane as Pseudolus, the role created by Zero Mostel. Though only 40 and only Irish, Lane is the mystic repository of the ancients' physical gag bag. A double take is concrete poetry when he does it, and a pratfall a plie. He also elevates some of his more plebeian colleagues. Mark Linn-Baker, no natural farceur, is at first uneasy...
...professors, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 and Professor of Yiddish Literature and of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse, accused Rudenstine in the meeting of using the reports to further political beliefs...
Born in Los Angeles, the conductor comes from a theatrical background. His grandparents Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky were stars of the Yiddish theater in New York City, and young Michael grew up in a musical household. Boyhood piano lessons were followed at the University of Southern California by studies with pianist John Crown and composer-conductor Ingolf Dahl, a summer stint as an assistant at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1966, and an appointment as William Steinberg's assistant at the Boston Symphony Orchestra three years later...