Woody Allen
Photo of the Day (and 1977)
A photographer sets up film stills at their original locations
Allan Sherman’s Last Laugh
A thorough new biography chronicles the rise and fall of the big, Jewish self-destructive funnyman
An Interview With ‘Girls’ Star Alex Karpovsky
The actor/writer/director talks to Jewcy about anxiety and Hebrew School
Solondz’s Schlubs
The funny, sad Dark Horse adds a creepy loser in love to the director’s catalog of misanthropes
Polanski Making Dreyfus Movie, Hint Hint
Accused rapist, a Jew, decries ‘age-old witch hunt of a minority group’
Sandra Fluke To Wed Her Jew Boyfriend
Let the anti-Semitic conspiracy-mongering commence!
The WASP Woody Allen?
In Damsels in Distress, preppy auteur Whit Stillman fetishizes a world of limits, quite contrary to the Jewish director to whom he’s often compared
Jewish Centurions vs. Rome
Street performers who pose for tourists by the Colosseum battle city authorities
When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.
