Dressed in a black coat, black-and-white shawl, and white-tipped black heels, actress Tovah Feldshuh wiped tears from her eyes after the U.S. premiere of The Baader Meinhof Complex, a docudrama directed by Uli Edels that follows the downward path of young German terrorists in the 1970s. The event was sponsored by The Atlantic.
“I was Read More
Love Comes Lately
Running time 86 minutes
Written and Directed by Jan Schütte
Starring Otto Tausig, Rhea Pearlman, Barbara Hershey, Tovah Feldshuh
Jan Schütte’s Love Come Lately, from his own screenplay, is based on three Issac Bashevis Singer short stories: “The Briefcase,” “Alone,” and “Old Love.” Mr. Schütte has gone above Read More
In weeks this bad, there’s no underestimating the calming value of cabaret. Tovah Feldshuh’s master class in versatility at Feinstein’s is called “Tovah in a Nutshell.” She means it. She’s won awards as Tallulah Bankhead, Kate Hepburn and Golda Meir. Now you feel like she’s throwing a party in her own family room and you’re Read More
Tallulah Bankhead, as some wiseacre once observed, was a lot of things to a lot of people, but she never was a bore. I knew her briefly, but well, before she died of pneumonia brought on by her own excesses in 1968 at age 66. I always seem to meet the great ones when they’re Read More
