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2017 Washington Jewish Film Festival Schedule Announced

The 2017 Washington Jewish Film Festival (May 17-28) includes 63 feature-length and 18 short films from 25 countries, and showcases the diversity of Jewish life through time and across the world. In addition to the film program, the Festival will host talkbacks and panel discussions with dozens of filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad. Opening Night will feature "The Women's Balcony," a dramatic comedy set against a gender rift in an Orthodox community in...

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Happy Birthday Doris Day!

One of the 20th century's greatest and -- yes -- most versatile performers is Doris Day, who celebrates her 95th birthday today. Born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, her first dream was to be a dancer, until she was injured in an automobile accident. So, she became a singer, and her version of "Sentimental Journey" became a huge hit. By then, a bandleader told her to use the last name "Day" after the song "Day by Day."



Songwriters Sammy...

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Great News! Tina Fey’s New Show with Andrea Martin and John Michael Higgins

Great news! Tina Fey is producing a new show, another sitcom set in a television studio, and it's called..."Great News." Andrea Martin stars as a woman who becomes an intern at her daughter's television news show. It premieres April 25, 2017.

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New on National Geographic: Genius, the Story of Albert Einstein with Geoffrey Rush

Is time universal? Is everything connected? Albert Einstein revolutionized the way we think about the universe and even the way we think about science. In National Geographic's engaging new series "Genius" we see Einstein as a young patent clerk in Germany (played by Johnny Flynn) and as a mature academic working in the United States (Geoffrey Rush).

"Genius" premieres on April 25, 2017.

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Original Version: Going in Style

This week Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin, and Michael Caine star in the remake of the 1979 comedy heist film, "Going in Style," starring George Burns, Art Carney, and legendary acting teacher Lee Strasberg (Hyman Roth in "The Godfather 2.")

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In the original film, three men in their 70's decide to rob a bank mostly because they are bored. This new version, with a script by "St. Vincent" and "Hidden Figures" writer/director Theodore Melfi, is a bit...

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Behind the Scenes of Buffy, Ghost, Daria, and More in Entertainment Weekly

This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly is a treasure trove of behind the scenes information about favorite movies like "Love Actually" and "Ghost" and favorite television shows like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and "Daria." Be sure to pick it up to find out about deleted and never-filmed scenes, cast replacements, and where some of pop culture's most iconic moments came from. I especially enjoyed the conversation between Kenya Barris ("Black-ish") and television legend Norman Lear ("All in the...

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April 2017: Coming to Theaters

Happy April! Wishing you all a minimum of showers and a maximum of flowers. Here's what I'm especially looking forward to in theaters this month.

April 7

Smurfs: The Lost Village
The smurfs are back where they belong -- in a fully-animated feature set in their own magical world. Smurfette who was created by the evil wizard Gargamel but became a part of the otherwise all-male and all-named after one characteristic smurf community, wants to know who she is. And she discovers a whole...

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New Book: When I Carried You in My Belly

When I Carried You in My Belly is a new book by Thrity Umrigar, with illustrations by Ziyue Chen, about a mother's tender experience of knowing that a baby is growing inside. The loving verse explains to a child that her mother's care -- and delight in her child -- began before she was born.

When I carried you in my belly, I sang to you all day, in many different languages, I sang you songs of joy. And that is why you feel...

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The Real Story: The Zookeeper’s Wife

"The Zookeeper's Wife," starring Jessica Chastain, is based on the nonfiction book by Diane Ackerman, the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Warsaw zookeepers who helped Jews hide from and escape the Nazis during the Holocaust.



Yad Vashem, the world's most comprehensive resource on the Holocaust, paid tribute to the Zabinskis and Dr. Zabinski planted a tree on the Mount of Remembrance...

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New on Netflix: Five Came Back

Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, is a book by Mark Harris about five of the greatest directors of all time who joined the war effort to document it and to promote morale at home. It is also about how the experienced changed them and inspired them to come home after the war and create richer, more complex, and more powerful films than they had before. George Stevens, Frank Capra, William Wyler, John Ford, and John Huston created...

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