From the 1920s until today, mahjong has captured the imagination of American Jewish players like few other games. Annelise Heinz, who teaches at the University of Oregon, is the author of “Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture.” Recently, I spoke with Heinz about what mahjong has meant to Jewish communities.
Even though it was really invented in Shanghai in the 19th century, was the purported antiquity of mahjong one reason why Jewish players appreciated it? The National Mah Jongg League founded in 1937 by Jewish women, you write, “never emphasized its strongly Jewish leadership” and most of its charity projects were “intentionally non-sectarian.”
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3 Women (1977) and
Popeye (1980). By
Thieves, Duvall had graduated to star billing, playing Keechie, a garage owner s daughter in Depression-era Mississippi who falls for an escaped convict, played by Keith Carradine. What she was doing in Altman movies like
Thieves was just transcendent, says Lily Tomlin, 81, who appeared with Duvall in
Nashville. (Duvall played a preening country music groupie, Tomlin a gospel singer raising two deaf kids.) She s sitting on the porch drinking a Coke in a swing, and Keith Carradine is coming on to her, and she s so innocent. The way she played that so sweet and funny and heartbreaking. It just killed me. Like so many others, Tomlin long ago lost touch with Duvall. I tried to find her for a minute when I first heard that she was gone off some place. I think I had a [project] idea for her at the time, Tomlin says. But I didn t really put a lot of sweat into it. I wish I had now.
February 4, 2021
The reopening of galleries and museums in New York, after those locked-down early-pandemic months, in which art shows could only be viewed online, has made me newly appreciative of the ability to move my body through an actual exhibition space. (On entering the Met, the other week, I felt almost literally uplifted.) And yet, sometimes, a virtual art exhibit can hit just the spot, too. So it is with the Al Hirschfeld show “A National Insanity: 75 Years of Looking for NINA,” which recently “closed” but, thankfully, is still available for viewing indefinitely, on the Web site for Hirschfeld’s foundation.
WHAT IT S ABOUT:
Salvador Mallo is a highly acclaimed film director who, in advanced middle age, is suffering from debilitating bodily pain and a depressing realisation that his best days may well be behind him. When he reconnects with a passionate actor with whom he had a falling out decades ago, Salvador finds a new, albeit perhaps temporary lease on life, even as he struggles to come to terms with his youth as a poor child and the only son of an absent father and tough-as-nails mother.
WHAT WE THOUGHT:
Pedro Almodovar isn’t just the very rare “foreign language” film director whose films actually get released to cinemas in this country, he is also known as one of the very best ever Spanish-language directors whose best films tend to be passionate, provocative, sexually charged, often more than slightly deranged, and almost never less than deeply personal.
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