Author: NY TIMES

Having initially drawn criticism for failing to acknowledge the formative role that Jewish immigrants like Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer played in creating Hollywood and the film industry, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Thursday announced the details of a new permanent exhibition that will spotlight their contributions.The show, called “Hollywoodland,” is scheduled to open May 19, the museum said in its news release, and will spotlight “the impact of the predominately Jewish filmmakers whose establishment of the American film studio system transformed Los Angeles into a global epicenter of cinema.”When the museum opened in 2021, it made…

Executives at Bayer Leverkusen, the longstanding but habitually middleweight German soccer team, have been fielding the messages since at least February. Some were delivered in person, a quiet blessing after yet another victory. Others came via WhatsApp, unsolicited and unexpected notes from peers and acquaintances and, to their occasional surprise, traditional foes.Soccer, after all, is fiercely tribal. Rivals do not easily offer one another encouragement or congratulations. But as the German league season gathered pace, plenty wanted to laud Leverkusen’s impending achievement: It was, with each victory, getting closer and closer to being crowned national champion for the first time.And,…

En primer lugar, el atuendo de Kravitz: una camiseta sin mangas color ciruela, pantalones de cuero, botas negras y sus característicos lentes de sol.Luego, el ejercicio en sí, que se llevó a cabo en un banco declinado e involucró una barra con pesas a cada lado.En la posición inicial, Kravitz está boca arriba, con la barra extendida hacia abajo de su cabeza. Luego, mientras la levanta con un movimiento furioso, parece hacer una combinación de un pullover y una abdominal. En la posición vertical, hace un press de hombros, llevando la barra por encima de la cabeza.En el video, Kravitz,…

The markets assume that former President Donald J. Trump has an even chance of winning the November election.So far, it appears they don’t care either way.The political prediction markets — which allow traders to place bets on the outcome of the November election — show that the presidential race is tight.After trailing for months, President Biden has moved slightly ahead of Mr. Trump in the betting on Predictit, the longest-running commercial prediction market in the United States. On Betfair, a robust British prediction market that is officially closed to U.S. residents, Mr. Biden has moved within one percentage point of…

Well, he was an idol of cinema. Idols, though, can crumble and fall, and I keep thinking about how, early in his career, Delon was repeatedly likened to James Dean, a comparison that was probably dreamed up by a flack looking for an easy way to publicize a client. Delon and Dean are very different, of course, including in their performance styles and screen presence, but there are moments — when the lighting and angle are just so and the camera lingers on their faces — when each man’s looks create a strange disturbance in the air. They don’t simply…

The writer Deborah Feldman has been rattling expectations ever since she published “Unorthodox,” a 2012 memoir of her departure from her Hasidic community in New York, which was later made into an acclaimed Netflix series. Feldman, whose first language is Yiddish, emigrated to Berlin a decade ago. She has published books in English and German. And since the start of the Israel-Hamas war last October, her writings and interviews have touched a nerve in Germany, where she is now a citizen.She became a rare voice in German media: a Jewish writer critical of Germany’s unquestioning support of Israel, and the…

Reality is coming.In the words of Diana Taurasi during her interview with Scott Van Pelt on SportsCenter, when Caitlin Clark enters the WNBA, she will be liquidation. After four years of dominating the college game, Clark begins the next chapter of her career as one of the youngest players in the most talented league in the world. Regardless of the overall trajectory of Clark’s career, she’s unlikely to be the best player on the court every night like she was at Iowa. Diana Taurasi on Caitlin Clark heading to WNBA, ‘Reality is setting in… You look superhuman playing against 18-year-olds,…

Theda Hammel is under no delusion that Covid is box-office gold.“I don’t think it’s going to draw people in, the idea of dwelling on that time,” she said last week at the Soho Grand Hotel in Manhattan, sipping an herbal tea on a leather couch. “But I think it has value as a little bit of a time capsule.”Later this month, her debut film, “Stress Positions,” an ensemble comedy that showed at Sundance, will ask audiences to return to the early days of the pandemic, a time that many people would rather forget.And what about the no-straight-people-in-her-entire-movie thing? Was that…

Frank A. Olson, who as a top executive of Hertz cast the running back O.J. Simpson as the star of the company’s commercials — a corporate marriage that shined up both parties and that lasted two decades, until Mr. Simpson was charged in a double homicide in 1994 — died at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday, the same day Mr. Simpson died. Mr. Olson was 91.The cause was complications of Covid, his sons, Christopher and Blake, said.The coincidental timing of the deaths of Mr. Olson, who had steered Hertz through years of corporate turbulence, and Mr. Simpson,…

“I may hold the world’s record for the person who has made the most documentaries about their family directing films,” she said. Her career, she wrote in “Notes on a Life,” a 2008 book, reflected that “I am an observer at heart, who has the impulse to record what I see around me.”Late in life, Ms. Coppola tried her hand at directing cinematic fiction, with decidedly mixed results. Her “Paris Can Wait,” released in 2017 when she was 81, was dismissed by Jeannette Catsoulis in The New York Times as “little more than an indulgent wallow in gustatory privilege.” While…