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The deep moral question: “Do you stick your neck out?”
Two from the Times today link to my essays about Casablanca and Aristides de Sousa Mendes–who did stick his neck out. Will anyone in our so-called government have the moral strength to do the same? ICE courthouse arrests and deportations … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Casablanca, ICE, ICE at courthouses, immigrant deportations, immigration, Immigraton and Customs Enforcement, Paul Henreid, Trump immigration policy
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Nobody Wanted to Go to Rick’s
I was born into the work of film writing. Or so I used to believe. Before World War II, my father had had a promising career as a political satirist and playwright, with a certain intriguing connection to Hollywood. But … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged As Time Goes By, Casablanca, Epstein brothers, Everybody Comes to Rick, Joan Alison, Man Against Crime, Murary Burnett, the Grand Concourse, who wrote Casablanca
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