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Melanie Andrews was 10 years old and bedridden with sepsis when she was introduced to the world of Shakespeare. Her teachers were her mother and grandmother, a college professor who encouraged Andrews to read from the 1950s encyclopedia series “Great Books of the Western World,” which encompasses more than 400 works of literature.
Over the span of a year, Andrews estimates, she read 20 Shakespeare plays, beginning with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” while confined to her Compton home.
She says she is one of the few people who has read and directed, designed or performed every Shakespeare play, “including ‘Coriolanus’ and ‘Timon of Athens,’ which nobody reads, because of my Nana. She was there every day for almost a year because I couldn’t walk.”
Isabelle Walker
Rabbi Gabriel Botnick
- Credit: Belsize Square Synagogue
The new rabbi at Belsize Square Synagogue has said he takes inspiration from its founders who fled Nazi oppression.
Rabbi Gabriel Botnick has moved to London from Venice Beach, California, where he served at the Mishkon Synagogue.
The 40-year-old joined the congregation in early April and will succeed Rabbi Stuart Altshuler at the end of June, becoming only its fifth rabbi.
Belsize Square is an independent synagogue, founded by refugees fleeing Nazi oppression in Germany in 1939.
“One of my goals is to enter the perspective of the original Jewish community and reflect on what it would be like today, said Rabbi Botnick.
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Withnail & I and
Enter The Dragon and
My Left Foot as executive producer, died on December 28 in Los Angeles. He was 93.
Heller, a longtime board member of BAFTA LA, was born in New York on September 25, 1927, and spent many years in England producing some of his most acclaimed films.
His first feature, the 1962 mental health drama
David And Lisa directed by Frank Perry, earned two Oscar nominations for directing and for Eleanor Perry’s adapted screenplay.
Encouraged to pursue his career with gusto, Heller produced Leopoldo Torre Nilsson’s Argentina-US political drama
The
Eavesdropper a couple of years later and the Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards honoured it with best film and best director prizes in 1967.
Georgia voter registration group surprised by investigation announcement
In November, Georgia s Secretary of State s office launched an investigation into, Operation New Voter Registration.
ATLANTA - The founder of a voter registration group recently revealed to be under investigation by the Georgia Secretary of State s Office said the announcement was unexpected, but that they have nothing to hide. Of course it was a surprise, but I knew that was I was doing was to the letter of the law, said Paul Heller, founder of Operation New Voter Registration GA. Being surprised, but being responsible, I just found a top election law attorney in Georgia and confirmed what we were doing was to the letter of the law.