Dear Mr. Apatow: Tonight I took a break from the sadness I have felt since the shootings in Sandy Hook to see your new film "This is 40". I looked forward to what I knew would be a slice of life, with Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann playing two parts of a couple resembling my real life coupledom. And indeed it was. You put my life on the screen! I was glad to step out of the zone I have spiraled in since the shootings and I was grateful for the break. However, this is not a film review. That will come here on this blog later this week. … [Read more...]
Bringing Anne Frank into the Modern World
July 2, 2012 By 3 Comments
On my recent visit to Atlanta, my mother told me about an ongoing exhibit sponsored by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, Anne Frank in the World. A long-time admirer of what her name has done to raise the profile about the truth of the Holocaust, I immediately Googled it and discovered it’s the world’s largest Anne Frank Exhibit. I thought about taking my children, as my daughter recently read an easy version of the diary and is keenly interested in Anne Frank and her fate, but I decided that at ages 7 and 9, they are still too young to … [Read more...]
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