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Randy Newman’s “Harps and Angels”

Academy Award-winning songwriter, composer, singer, pianist Randy Newman performs live in our studios! His first album of new music in nine years is “Harps and Angels.”

Event:
Randy Newman will be performing at Carnegie Hall
Friday, September 19, 2008 at 8 PM
More info and tickets here

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Elliott Gould: Star for an Uptight Age

When Elliott Gould became a full-fledged movie star in 1970 with the release of “M*A*S*H,” Time magazine christened him “Star for an Uptight Age.” Now the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is hosting a retrospective of Gould’s films; it’s called "Elliott Gould: Star for an Uptight Age." It runs through August 21 and features screenings of “Little Murders” (1971), “The Long Goodbye” (1973), “California Split” (1974), and many others.

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Rediscovering India’s Jews

Sadia Shepard was raised a Muslim, so she was surprised to learn that her grandmother had actually been born Jewish as a member of India’s small Bene Israel community of Jews. In her new book, The Girl from Foreign, she writes about her journey to India to learn more about her grandmother’s life, the history of the Bene Israel, and her own intertwined cultural heritage.

Event:
Sadia Shepard will be speaking and signing books
Thursday Aug. 7 at 7:00 pm
at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble
97 Warren St.

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Underreported: Coming to Terms with Pinochet

Judge Juan Guzmán had supported General Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 coup that toppled democratically-elected President Salvador Allende and left thousands of others dead or disappeared. But when in 1998 Judge Guzman was assigned the first criminal cases against Pinochet, what he learned about the past changed his mind about the General, and forced him to confront his own role in the tragedy. He joins Leonard, along with Elizabeth Farnsworth, director of a new documentary called "The Judge and the General." It airs on PBS on August 19 at 10 pm.

Event:
“The Judge and the General” will be screened
Thursday, August 7, at 6:30
at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
W. 65 St., between Broadway and Amsterdam
Tickets and more information is here

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