Ethan Coen after seeing King of the Roaring 20’s – The Story of Arnold Rothstein at 30th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 1
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He was at a screening of King of the Roaring 20’s – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
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Part of Tough Guys: Images of Jewish Gangsters in Film
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He also saw A Small Act on Saturday
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A Small Act is currently showing on HBO and HBO on demand
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A Small Act screens three more times at the fest on July 31st in Palo Alto, August 5th in Berkeley, & August 8 in San Rafael
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He is married to Tricia Cooke who co-directed the documentary, Where the Girls Are, with Jennifer Arnold & has edited many films including The Notorious Bettie Page, O Brother, Where Art Thou? & The Big Lebowski.
The next film by the Coen Brothers is True Grit with Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin
Anthropologist Burton Benedict, 1923-2010
Burton Benedict, a professor emeritus of social anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and former director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, died of heart failure on Sunday (Sept. 19) at his Berkeley home. He was 87.
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Daily (Stale) Bread: The news we didn’t post on September 22nd, 2010
Yesterday’s news was filled with launch reveals and boasts as well as one of the weirdest company announcements we’ve ever seen. Even with those happening, we still found a few weird stories too bizarre to stand on their own. Collectively, they’re able to co-exist as this morning’s daily stale bread.
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