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As most of you may have heard by now, Disney bought George Lucas’ production company Lucasfilm for a whooping $4 billion last week. The meaning – the “Star Wars” franchise is now owned by Mickey Mouse & Co. — making Princess Leia a Disney princess. In addition, the new owners of Lucasfilm are now looking […]

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In 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, European Jews started looking for any and every escape path. When word got out that Shanghai, which was then under Japanese control, did not require a visa or passport for entry, thousands of Eastern and Western European Jews started flocking to the city’s Hongkew district, where Iraqi and Russian […]

On a revealing interview to “60 Minutes,” awarded filmmaker Steven Spielberg told the story of his childhood, and like most of the characters in his movies, it was anything but perfect. “I was a nerd in those days. Outsider, like the kid that played the clarinet in the band and in orchestra, which I did,” Spielberg told […]

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