'Deceptive Practice': Ricky Jay's inimitable magic act
Renowned magician Ricky Jay is also a historian of magic — and an actor featured in the films of David ...
Tag: Curt Schleier
A look at bygone schmatta business
HBO film about New York’s garment district premieres Oct. 19 By CURT SCHLEIER Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags Again ...
Life imitates art in story of bad scheduling
Sixty-Six is a funny and touching story of a Jewish boy’s star-crossed Bar Mitzva in London By CURT SCHLEIER When ...
Bearing witness to a soldier’s sacrifice
HBO producer Ross Katz initially resisted a story by a retired Marine, then felt called to bring it to the public ...
An impulse to resist
'Defiance' director Ed Zwick chronicles Nazi resistance in the woods of Belarus By CURT SCHLEIER They came to the Museum ...
Story of 'Valkyrie' fed director's fascination
By CURT SCHLEIER /Â Special to the AJW For a director, every film is special, a baby that needs to be ...
