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Wow! .
Remember recently I mentioned in my column that I would include more Jewish comedians and singers? Two of my favorites were Sid Caeser (now deceased) and WOODY ALLEN. Both were (and are) brilliant!
Actually, Woody, who was born in the Bronx, was raised in Brooklyn and at one time we were neighbors. Woody went to Midwood High School and I attended Tilden High School. (And he was older than me!)
Remember singer Tony Martin? Not only was he handsome, he had a great singing voice. He appeared in a TV movie the other night . and speaking of singers, Broadway star, IDINA MENZEL appeare.
Cindy Nemser, Advocate for Women Artists, Is Dead at 83
In the 1970s she called out chauvinism and pushed back against the marginalization of women in the art world, in part by helping to create The Feminist Art Journal.
Cindy Nemser with a copy of the winter 1973-74 issue of The Feminist Art Journal. She helped create the journal to promote women artists.Credit.Cindy Nemser Papers, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Published Feb. 7, 2021Updated Feb. 17, 2021
Cindy Nemser, an art critic and historian who, half a century ago, began calling out sexism in the art world, decrying the way women artists were treated and how their work was evaluated, died on Jan. 26 at her home in Brooklyn. She was 83.
Howard J. Rubenstein, Public Relations Impresario, Dies at 88
He polished the tarnished images of the rich, the famous and the flawed, with clients that included Donald J. Trump, Rupert Murdoch and George M. Steinbrenner.
Howard J. Rubenstein in his office in 2004. When crises struck celebrities, politicians, corporations or cultural institutions, he was a fixer of choice.Credit.Vincent Laforet/The New York Times
Dec. 29, 2020
Howard J. Rubenstein, who softened life’s blows and polished the tarnished images of the rich, the famous and the flawed for more than 65 years in becoming New York’s pre-eminent public relations impresario, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88.
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1970 (dated)
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This is a 1970 Robert Grossman / Abie Sussman / Lloyd Fink and The Fund for New Priorities in America anti-Vietnam-War protest broadside denouncing the lack of action by President Richard Nixon and the U.S. Senate. Entitled,
They ve got an invisible program to end and undeclared war backed by a silent majority, the broadside fires with both barrels from the start. By using the phrases invisible program , undeclared war and silent majority, The Fund for New Priorities in America makes it clear they believe their government is purposely misleading the American people.
Silent MajorityThe Nixon administration first used the term silent majority in May 1969, when Vice President Spiro T. Agnew stated, It is time for America s silent majority to stand up for its rights… . Anti-war protests continued. After the first Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam demonstrations happened on Octo