Tag Archives: Alan Arkin

waiting for god-oh!… a matter of memory

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Dave

What is a jew? The question is more easily posed than responded to, or at least those responses differ in an agree to disagree manner. That could be predicted in avance, given that Jewish history has never conformed to reasonable … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan Arkin, Allison Yarrow, Arthur Koestler, Avraham Burg, Daniel Gordis, David Landau, jewish history, John Phillips photography, John Stuart Mill, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mindy Meyer, Mordechai Richler | Leave a comment

willingly the ghetto: knowledge acquired in childhood

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Dave

Eastside and Westside story. Two different worlds. Zionism in the form of Herzl was really the creation of white liberal social democratic thinking. A conjunction of the Enlightenment connected to a Jewish identity that could be refashioned in the age … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan Arkin, Balachovitz, Bielski Jewish partisans, Danny kaye, efraim halevy, eichmann trial, Frank Dimant, Freida Pinto, Gideon Hausner, Hannah Arendt, Harvey Weinstein, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Joseph Trumpeldor, Julian Schnabel, Julian Schnabel Miral, Liev Schreiber, Louis Rukeyser, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Ronen, Rula Jebreal, Shlomo Carlebach, Theodor Herzl, Zeev Jabotinsky | Leave a comment

way out east : serpentine serpentine!

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Dave

Its tough to find a decent tailor in the Tuva heartland. Picture that caught my attention, given the incongruity of their appearance within the context of Washington fashions and the overall chic of Western garb. Here Medvedev, Svetlana and Armenian … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged A serious man movie, Alan Arkin, Coen Brothers a Serious Man, dmitry medvedev, Peter Falk, Peter Paul Rubens, rita sargsyan, serzh sargsyan, svetlana medvedev, The In-Laws film | Leave a comment

some things you just can’t improvise

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Dave

In Alan Arkin’s role as Singer in Carson McCullers’s screen adaptation of The Heart is Lonely Hunter, he plaus a deaf-mute whose silence was an articulation and metaphor for all the lonely life impaired citizens in a southern town whether … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alan Arkin, Alan Arkin an improvised life, alan arkin little miss sunshine, Carson McCullers, douglas coupland, douglas coupland author, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Martin Buber, Peter Falk, Viktor Frankl, viktor frankl logotherapy, Zen Buddhism | Leave a comment

Travelling With The Wandering Joke

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Dave

The 2001 Play Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger is a monologue by a Dutch librarian who delves into the history of several rare volumes which are returned 113 years overdue. Upon investigation, he becomes convinced that the borrower is … Continue reading →