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What to watch at the Jewish Film Festival With more than 50 offerings to take in, there’s something for everyone at this year’s Jewish International Film Festival, currently screening in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Canberra. “The Human Factor” looks at the peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine and the complex relationships that existed between Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin.  John McDonald Save Share No-one could ever accuse the Jewish International Film Festival of taking soft options. Most festivals choose to screen something suitab...

PITTSBURGH —  I can’t wait until I’m 45 and get all those great parts. --Elizabeth Hartman, in a 1971 interview. The first reports of 43-year-old Elizabeth Hartman’s June 10 suicide here were sketchy. Homicide detectives weren’t sure just who the slight woman was who had thrown herself from the fifth-story window of her efficiency apartment. A handful of neighbors volunteered what they knew. She was an unemployed actress, they thought, who had starred long ago in some movie with Sidney Poitier. She would have hated that description. Even though she was subsisting on disability i...

Famed for his Mark Twain one-man show, actor Hal Holbrook dies at 95 In 1985, actor Hal Holbrook told an interviewer in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that American humorist-writer Mark Twain “has become integrated into my whole life … no matter what the subject, he’s always a tremendously amusing wise old bird.” By that time, Holbrook had been performing his one-man show, “Mark Twain Tonight” for 31 consecutive years—just about the midpoint of its run. The actor went on, “I think it would be a pretty good idea to keep doing this every year until I drop dead.” Hal Holbrook in 2007 (W...

Twice last week, I had the privilege to speak with Milius to find out more about her journey, growing up in Hollywood, movie-making and working for the U.S. president.

Alien Franchise Producer David Giler Dead at 77 ✖ Deadline brings word today that Giler has passed away. Giler passed on Saturday, December 19 at his home in Bangkok from cancer, he was 77 at the time of his death. After serving as a producer on the 1979 Alien, his first official producer credit, Giler would continue to be involved with the franchise over the years nabbing a "story by" credit for the 1986 sequel Aliens and even penning the script for Alien 3. He could go on to be a producer for every other installment as well including the Alien vs. Predator films and recent entries like Pr...