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  • Lyricist Herbert Kretzmer attends the opening night of Cameron Mackintosh's new production of Boublil and Schonberg's 'Les Miserables' on Broadway at The Imperial Theatre  in New York City, March 23, 2014.
    Lyricist Herbert Kretzmer attends the opening night of Cameron Mackintosh's new production of Boublil and Schonberg's 'Les Miserables' on Broadway at The Imperial Theatre  in New York City, March 23, 2014.
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    The Man Who Wrote the Lyrics to ‘Les Misérables’

    Herbert Kretzmer, 90, reflects on his career on the musical’s 30th anniversary

    byTess Cutler
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    (scumdogsteev/Flickr)
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    New Year’s Believe

    Reflecting on a rough 2012, the Tattler suggests we all resolve to do the best we can with what we’ve got

    byRachel Shukert
  • Fantine (Anne Hathaway) and Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) in Les Misérables. (Universal Pictures)
    Fantine (Anne Hathaway) and Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) in Les Misérables. (Universal Pictures)
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    10 Things We Loved About 2012

    From Les Miz to anti-Semitic Elmo, the year’s top 10 most Tattler things—none of them (sadly) NSFW

    byRachel Shukert
  • Israel Joshua Singer in 1938.(Library of Congress)
    Israel Joshua Singer in 1938.(Library of Congress)
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    Prescient

    I.J. Singer’s newly reissued The Brothers Ashkenazi may not be on par with the greatest realist epics, but it is an eerie foretelling of Eastern European Jewry’s eventual fate

    byAdam Kirsch
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