Funny Girl is based on a Broadway musical whose producer was married to the daughter of its subject, the wonderful singer and comedienne Fanny Brice, famous for popularizing the song “My Man” and (on the radio) the character of Baby Snooks. Of Hungarian-Jewish descent, Brice was born Fania Borach in New York in 1891 and […]
Daily Archives: November 29, 2008
Whatever else it may be about (for this is a film that exists on many levels), Milk, about Harvey Milk, is about the capacity in America for someone to set the course of one’s own myth. Milk, a gay Jewish New York businessman, was not young but he took Horace Greeley’s advice about going west, […]
Dennis Grunes 