Marilyn Monroe at Ebbets Field, New York on May 12, 1957, where she made the ceremonial first kick in a soccer match between the USA and Israel.
Pop quiz:
Why isn’t the Justice Department investigating the Clinton money laundering operation? Any other so-called charity would be under multiple federal and state indictments.
Hillary Clinton had her own private server when she was Secretary of State. This is indefensible. She destroyed 30,000 emails? Does anyone believe that all these emails were about yoga and Chelsea’s wedding? Hillary Clinton sold her office when she was in office, and she’s selling her office again — in advance of holding the Presidency.
How is it that George Stephanopoulos is pulling down 105 million a year as, get this, a journalist? Why does Stephanopoulos still have a job and yet Brian Williams was dismissed?
Why does the media continue to give Barack Obama a pass on the bloodbath he has created in the Middle East by withdrawing our troops?
And how is it that the Mayor and District Attorney of Baltimore still have their jobs when they are obviously incompetent race hustlers?
Answer: Democrat privilege; whereby Democrats thrive in a moral and legal cesspool that would destroy a Republican.
Some photos to relieve the corruption and squalor which is the operating principle of the postmodern Democrat party.
Amadeo Modigliani, The Jewish Woman, 1908.
Passover plate, Spain, ca. 1480, earthenware
Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant on the set of “Notorious,” 1945.
Beechnut Gum girl, 1940s
“Young Woman in a Blue Blouse (Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya, the Artist’s Secretary), 1939, Henri Matisse (1869-1954).
From the 18th century, and perhaps even earlier, hollow eggs on which sacred texts had been written in micrography were used to decorate European sukkahs. Not all the texts related directly to the holiday of Sukkot, the Festival of Booths. This example has Song of Songs 1-4:7 inscribed in miniscule letters. At times feathers were added to the hanging egg, so that it looked like a bird in flight. This egg is from Poland, 19th century.
Close-up of the Hebrew text.
Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate, Millenium Park, Chicago.
Spectacular portrait of Audrey Hepburn
Eye catching poster for “Stormswept,” starring Wallace and Noah Beery, a 1923 film I have never seen.
Wonderful portrait of the under appreciated Chinese American actress Anna May Wong, 1931.
Craig Kreindler, “The Luckiest Man” — 84 x 48 in. — oil on linen — 2013 — Lou Gehrig’s Farewell, July 4, 1939
This is a rare 1945 Kodachrome of the luminous Myrna Loy.
I was picking up some office supplies the other day when I noticed the cashier’s manicure. I asked her if I could snap a picture. She said: “Dude, are you kiddin’, fire away!”
That’s me with the late, great director Sidney Lumet at the Cannes Film Festival, 1992. Our film “A Stranger Among Us” was being screened and we were discussing a few edits before the final release. Sidney taught me more about the craft of making movies than anyone else in Hollywood.
Make-up, hair, and costume test shots for Betty Bacall b. Betty Jane Persky, for “To Have and Have Not.”
Miriam with her tambourine and Israelite women – from the Sarajevo Hagaddah, created in Barcelona around 1350.
I was in a candy shop a few weeks ago. This is a close-up of some sugar coated candy stripes.
James Nares, Tetragram, 1999
oil on linen
108 x 92 inches
274.3 x 233.7 cm
Freud famously asked, “What do women want?’ Talk about clueless. Women want shoes. And what could be better than this high heeled homage to Van Gogh’s visionary art.
Anne Francis publicity photo.
A simple but incredibly compelling photo of Gene Tierney. Her best films are “Laura” (’44) a noir classic, and “Leave Her to Heaven,” (’45) in which she plays the most chilling homicidal femme fatale I have ever seen.
I buy art supplies in a store on La Cienega Avenue here in Los Angeles. The salespeople are always friendly and helpful. And every single one of them is vastly tattooed. “I Lived for my art, I lived for my love” a quote from Puccini’s Tosca.
Handwoven art by Genetu Hailu, an Ethiopian Jew. It portrays Moses splitting the Sea of Reeds. I use it as a challe cover on Shabbat, 12 x 14 inches.
Maayan Ariel and Livia Yarden wish all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.
