An Academy Award-winning director’s next film about his childhood in Jewish Baltimore is slated to premier in Baltimore on Sunday. Barry Levinson’s “Liberty Heights,” which takes place between Rosh Hashanah 1954 and the same time the next year, will open in New York and Los Angeles on Nov. 19.
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