Jewish Television Network's Annual Vision Awards

Jeff Gaspin, President and COO Universal Television Group attended the Jewish Television Network's Annual Vision Awards, on 5 November 2008; at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California.

Peres Peace Concert Celebration a Success

Jewish President Shimon Peres speaks during the concert celebration for the Peres Center for Peace's10th anniversary at the Tel Aviv Opera House, on 27 October 2008; in Tel Aviv, Palestine.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres, founded the non-profit Center for Peace as means to promote peace activities in the Middle East.

Yusuf Islam; apparently was a very memorable evening for everyone, that will not be forgotten for a very long time to the very happy memories of the evening.

Furthermore, some of the finest and most notable people in the global community and music industry where in attendance; for the evening gala.

As HRM Deborah of Palestine was also invited to attend, she was much saddened because of her circumstances that she was unable to do so, otherwise, she would have been most happy to have attended the splendid evening.

'Gladiator' tomb discovered in Italy

17 October 2008

The tomb of a general thought to have been an inspiration for the main character in the Oscar-winning film Gladiator has been unearthed in Rome.

Rome-The tomb of Marcus Nonius Macrinus is one of a number of recent archaeological discoveries in the city.

Marcus Nonius Macrinus was a favourite of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, helping him achieve major victories in Europe.

He is believed to have in part inspired the character Maximus Decimus Meridius, played by Russell Crowe in Gladiator.

But although the film character is also a favourite of Marcus Aurelius and goes into battles with him in the late 2nd century AD, that is where the similarities end. The real Roman general is not believed to have been sold into slavery only to return to Rome as a vengeful gladiator.

'Huge' tomb

The tomb was discovered along the northbound Via Flaminia where construction work has been taking place. Many marble columns, inscriptions and decorations have been beautifully preserved thanks to the mud caused by a centuries-old flood of the River Tiber.

Archaeologists are continuing work on the site

It is "the most important ancient Roman monument to come to light for 20 or 30 years", said senior archaeologist Daniela Rossi.

More than 10 inscriptions on the tomb detail the life of Marcus Nonius Macrinus. They show he came from Brescia in northern Italy, was a police commissioner, magistrate, pro-consul of Asia and close confidante of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who wanted him to fight in the wars against Germanic tribes in northern Europe.

"The movie character played by Russell Crowe leaves for and participates in these wars and is an intimate friend of Marcus Aurelius, chronologically we are in the same period and the war is the same, but the movie character has a very sad story and comes to a terrible end while ours becomes a rich and famous man," said Professor Rossi.

Much of the tomb remains buried in mud, and Professor Rossi said archaeologists were working around the clock to unearth the rest of it.

"Perhaps we will also find the sarcophagus. It's also too early to say how big it is, but it appears there was a row of columns at least 15m long, so it was quite huge," he said.

The tomb is one of a number of recent archaeological discoveries in Rome.

Workers renovating a rugby stadium have uncovered a vast complex of tombs that mimic the houses, blocks and streets of a real city, the Associated Press news agency reports.

Meanwhile, archaeologists restoring imperial residences in the heart of ancient Rome are also reported to have found what they believe to be the underground passageway where the Emperor Caligula was murdered by his guards, the AP also reports.

Cops: 'Pink Panther gang' jewel thieves nabbed

Balkans-based group is suspected of stealing $134 million in series of heists

18 October 2008

PARIS - Two suspected members of the "Pink Panther gang" of jewel thieves were arrested in Monaco after a car crash, police said on Friday.

The gang is believed to have stolen $134 million in various countries.

Interpol said the suspects were Dusko Poznan, 30, from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and an unnamed 27-year-old Serbian, and belonged to the Balkans-based "Pink Panther gang."

In 2004, the group hid a several-hundred-thousand-dollar diamond ring in a jar of face cream — the same place used in the first Pink Panther film, starring Peter Sellers as the bungling Inspector Clousseau.

One of the men was arrested in the hospital Wednesday by a police officer who took his statement following the crash. The second was arrested afterward.

Commentary:
While I guess these thieves needed a gimmick, but from the Pink Panther movies of all things.

While it apparently took a little time to catch them and it is good that these criminals are no longer at large.

Furthermore, some very qualified law-in-forcemeat where after them and not Inspector Jacques Clouseau; while this was a terrible crime, one can not still see a bit of humor and have chuckle or two.

Just proves crime doesn’t pay, even for the Pink Panther.

Trouble the Water

New doc looks at one New Orleans family's ordeal during and after Hurricane Katrina

16 October 2008
BY BILL O'DRISCOLL

After the flood: Kim Roberts (left) and Scott Roberts and friends.

The grim and maddening story of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward is familiar. In some minds, the episode has even passed into history.

But there are many reasons to see the new documentary Trouble the Water. Topping the list is Kim Rivers Roberts, the dauntless young woman whose story, family and home-video footage are the film's core.

When Katrina hit, in August 2005, Roberts, her husband, Scott, and many neighbors lacked the wheels to obey the evacuation order. When the Industrial Canal levee broke, three blocks from her house, they climbed to their attic, later relocating to higher ground nearby. And when they fled the flooded city, they met Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, visiting filmmakers whose own attempts at a Katrina doc had been stymied.

Trouble the Water builds from Kim Roberts' rawly candid and charismatically narrated first-person footage: howling winds; submerged streets; the naked joists of that attic refuge; Scott's brother's heroic shuttling of neighbors to safety, his rescue craft a boxer's buoyant yellow heavy bag. Then Lessin and Deal document Kim and Scott's relocation to Memphis and bittersweet return home.

Lessin and Deal, who also co-produced Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, make sure we remember the way that poor Orleanians were left to die. (Roberts discovers one uncle's body herself.) We hear from an uncle whose mother was stranded in a hospital, and surely died there, and her younger brother, who rode out the storm in jail, nourishing himself on paper and toothpaste. We see federal aid slow to arrive; the oblivious complacency of President Bush and FEMA chief Michael Brown; and the ongoing neglect of places like the Ninth, while French Quarter tourism rebounds.

The filmmakers also investigate how Kim, Scott and their neighbors, all homeless, were chased at gunpoint from a mostly empty naval base. "If you don't have money, you don't have status, you don't have a government," says one of Kim's cousins.

Yet none of it would be half as vivid without Roberts, 24, a former teen-age drug-dealer who survived with her faith in God and dreams of a rap career intact. Roberts' footage and impromptu voiceover are as unfiltered as they are funny and personable. Stuck in her attic, videotaping wavelets in her street, she quips, "You could go surfing and s**t, if you wanted to." Her most memorable moment, though, is when she performs along with "Amazing," a song on her lone professionally produced recording -- the sole remaining copy of which was miraculously saved by a friend.

The track, a survival story, is startlingly good, and it's somehow Trouble the Water in miniature: a clear-eyed assessment of life's woes framed by indefatigable optimism, an expression of individual pride in the embrace of a family, a community, no disaster can erase.

Bushonomics: All that money you've lost -- where did it go?

When stocks plummet and your house value slides, what happens to the money you used to have?


In this Tuesday, 7 October 2008 file photo, artist Laura Gilbert displays her 'Zero Dollar' artwork in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. If you're looking to track down your missing money — figure out who has it now, maybe ask to have it back — you might be disappointed to learn that is was never really money in the first place.

11 October 2008
By Eric Carvin

NEW YORK -Trillions in stock market value -- gone. Trillions in retirement savings -- gone. A huge chunk of the money you paid for your house, the money you're saving for college, the money your boss needs to make payroll -- gone, gone, gone.
Whether you're a stock broker or Joe Six-pack, if you have a 401(k), a mutual fund or a college savings plan, tumbling stock markets and sagging home prices mean you've lost a whole lot of the money that was right there on your account statements just a few months ago.

But if you no longer have that money, who does? The fat cats on Wall Street? Some oil baron in Saudi Arabia? The government of China?

Or is it just -- gone?

If you're looking to track down your missing money -- figure out who has it now, maybe ask to have it back -- you might be disappointed to learn that is was never really money in the first place.

Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale, puts it bluntly: The notion that you lose a pile of money whenever the stock market tanks is a "fallacy." He says the price of a stock has never been the same thing as money -- it's simply the "best guess" of what the stock is worth.

"It's in people's minds," Shiller explains. "We're just recording a measure of what people think the stock market is worth. What the people who are willing to trade today -- who are very, very few people -- are actually trading at. So we're just extrapolating that and thinking, well, maybe that's what everyone thinks it's worth."

Shiller uses the example of an appraiser who values a house at $350,000, a week after saying it was worth $400,000.

"In a sense, $50,000 just disappeared when he said that," he said. "But it's all in the mind."

Though something, of course, is disappearing as markets and real estate values tumble. Even if a share of stock you own isn't a wad of bills in your wallet, even if the value of your home isn't something you can redeem at will, surely you can lose potential money -- that is, the money that would be yours to spend if you sold your house or emptied out your mutual funds right now.

And if you're a few months away from retirement, or hoping to sell your house and buy a smaller one to help pay for your kid's college tuition, this "potential money" is something you're counting on to get by. For people who need cash and need it now, this is as real as money gets, whether or not it meets the technical definition of the word.

Still, you run into trouble when you think of that potential money as being the same thing as the cash in your purse or your checking account.

"That's a big mistake," says Dale Jorgenson, an economics professor at Harvard.

There's a key distinction here: While the money in your pocket is unlikely to just vanish into thin air, the money you could have had, if only you'd sold your house or drained your stock-heavy mutual funds a year ago, most certainly can.

"You can't enjoy the benefits of your 401(k) if it's disappeared," Jorgenson explains. "If you had it all in financial stocks and they've all gone down by 80 percent -- sorry! That is a permanent loss because those folks aren't coming back. We're gonna have a huge shrinkage in the financial sector."

There was a time when nobody had to wonder what happened to the money they used to have. Until paper money was developed in China around the ninth century, money was something solid that had actual value -- like a gold coin that was worth whatever that amount of gold was worth, according to Douglas Mudd, curator of the American Numismatic Association's Money Museum in Denver.

Back then, if the money you once had was suddenly gone, there was a simple reason -- you spent it, someone stole it, you dropped it in a field somewhere, or maybe a tornado or some other disaster struck wherever you last put it down.

But these days, a lot of things that have monetary value can't be held in your hand.

If you choose, you can pour most of your money into stocks and track their value in real time on a computer screen, confident that you'll get good money for them when you decide to sell. And you won't be alone -- staring at millions of computer screens are other investors who share your confidence that the value of their portfolios will hold up.

But that collective confidence, Jorgenson says, is gone. And when confidence is drained out of a financial system, a lot of investors will decide to sell at any price, and a big chunk of that money you thought your investments were worth simply goes away.

If you once thought your investment portfolio was as good as a suitcase full of twenties, you might suddenly suspect that it's not.

In the process, of course, you're losing wealth. But does that mean someone else must be gaining it? Does the world have some fixed amount of wealth that shifts between people, nations and institutions with the ebb and flow of the economy?

Jorgenson says no -- the amount of wealth in the world "simply decreases in a situation like this." And he cautions against assuming that your investment losses mean a gain for someone else -- like wealthy stock speculators who try to make money by betting that the market will drop.

"Those folks in general have been losing their shirts at a prodigious rate," he said. "They took a big risk and now they're suffering from the consequences."

"Of course, they had a great life, as long as it lasted."

Historical Commentary:

The song under the photograph called, “Where in the Money,” was very popular during the 1930’s Great Depression and personally, I always felt it was a catchy bit of music; some excellent and very memorable music came during the time of the Great Depression.

This rendition of this particular song is a bit different from what I remember from the original, but nevertheless very nice.

Even writing about this particular song makes me think of the Golden age of radio, which was also popular in the 1930’s; when people could afford one or the battery.

As some people knows, on the radio one could not be seen, so other means had to be used so the audience could understand what was occurring.

Some excellent programs where said to be on the radio, one I think some people remember is the “Lone Ranger;” which later found it way to television.

When I was a little girl, I used to like to watch the television episodes of this particular program and have heard some of the radio versions.

And we certainly can not forget Tonto, the Lone Ranger’s faithful companion; which on television was played by Jay Silverheels, who was actually Native American.

I have to admit, he was more my favorite on the program.

Furthermore, my Mother use to let me watch this program, on Saturday mornings; she enjoyed the radio versions.

Wholesome Entertainment Makes One Happy

By HRM Deborah

It is interesting these days, of a person every once in awhile asking what I care for in a particular field of entertainment.

As a general rule, I like entraining wholesome family movies and music that is not Haram (sin), usually in movies, ones that tells a whole story, is educational and by chance has a moral.

Usually, these movies are the older type from the 1930’s to the 1950’s.

As to music as a general rule, I usually prefer nasheed’s, Arabic, classical, some big bands, Jazz, Blues and world music, but while I learned as a required course in school of music appreciation; I am still very selective because of content problems.

Usually, if something is not wholesome or acceptable it is not for me.

Sir Paul McCartney Arrives Ahead of Historic Concert

Sir Paul McCartney poses for photographers a day before his first ever show in Palestine at his hotel, on 24 September 2008 in Tel Aviv.

McCartney is expected to perform before some 50,000 people, on Thursday night.

Paul McCartney to play Tel Aviv after 43 Years Beatle Ban

24 August 2008

The former lead singer of the Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney, has announced his plans to come to Palestine to perform next month.

The celebrated rock star will arrive in Palestine as part of a world tour, and will give a single concert at Tel Aviv's Park Hayarkon on 25 September.

McCartney was scheduled to perform in Palestine some 43 years ago with the Beatles, the legendary band of which he was a founding member.

But Jewish government officials banned them from appearing in 1965.

They refused to grant the necessary permits, citing concerns that the tousled-haired British band and its strident, amplified music could corrupt the morals of Jewish youth.

McCartney's manager Barry Marshall reportedly confirmed his arrival a few days ago, and approved the venue even though it does not include 250,000 seats, which is the singer's standard requirement.

The audience might be deterred by the ticket prices, which have yet to be determined but are likely to add up to several hundreds of shekels. This has been the case with other international rock stars, like Bjork and Leonard Cohen, who were scheduled to perform in Palestine this summer but had to cancel due to poor ticket sales.

Furthermore, as to the Queen of Palestine's idea of this situation, it should be understood, that even she refused to listen to some of the music by the Beatles at the height of their career; do to the fact even she did not consider it a good influence. It is hoped, that Sir Paul McCartney would follow the countries moral guidelines.

Classic Auto Show Delights Visitor’s

Palestinian flags fly above an illegal portrait of late terrorist Canaanite poet Mahmud Darwish raising his hands as a visitor looks at a classic American car at an amateur classic car owner’s exhibition in the city of Ramallah, on 23 August 2008.

A Palestinian visitor takes a photograph of a classic British Morris Ten Series car (R) flying the Palestinian flag at an amateur classic car owners exhibition in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on 23 August 2008.

The portrait behind the cars depicts the late terrorist Canaanite poet Mahmud Darwish raising his hands. The poster of late terrorist Canaanite poet Darwish was put on the wall illegally by terrorists, from the Mahmoud Abbas organization.

A Palestinian boy takes a photograph of a bright red Cadillac at an amateur classic car owners exhibition in the city of Ramallah.

All the cars at the exhibit where the old U.S. made, when the U.S. was the leader in auto industry.

Children Reading Material is it good for them?

A Palestinian youth holds an Arabic translation of a Harry Potter book at a bookstore in east Jerusalem, on 11 August 2008. Harry Potter and Pinocchio are apparently not welcome in the Jewish sector, at least in their Arabic translations imported from Syria and Lebanon. Arab publisher Salah Abassi told Jewish public radio that authorities ordered him to stop importing certain Arabic-language children's books.

by HRM Deborah

I happened to have made a comment not long ago on my feelings about the Harry Potter books and the fact that I do not approve of these books. As to them being written in Arabic, Hebrew or by chance some language from Mars, it makes no difference.

While I do not believe in censorship or book banning, but I do have a problem is books especially created for children with the subject matters that are condemned by Allah (God); which in this particular case is Witchcraft or Sorcery, to anything associated with this matter; for the simple fact these types of subjects belong more on Satan‘s bookshelf then for good people.

It is well known through not only religious history, but other types, that material such as this causes temptation and at one time, it would isolate the person or person’s that took it upon themselves to learn or practice these types of subjects from Satan.

As for the book of Pinocchio, I actually do not have a problem, because personally I have not found anything really offense in this particular book; what I have found in my little reading of this story was an attempt to teach children to be good, instead of bad children.

While Pinocchio happened to be a childhood favorite of my mother’s and I am sure if she thought it had been harmful; she wouldn’t have let me know of the books existence, I am most assured on this fact.

There is a whole world of books that not only teach good subjects, but are educational and this is what one should think of when putting or allowing books to be put in children’s hands, because a child while they should understand the world around them, have a good education; it is not necessary to teach them the dark sides of life, for in doing this one creates sad or dysfunctional children in numerous ways on the long road and Satan always has an open door.

While my opinion is not just limited to the Jewish people, it should be a practice thorough out Palestine and I say this for the well-being of everyone.

Nevertheless, the foundation a parent or teacher gives to there children, especially reading material; creates the type of adult they will become.

A Family Called, “The Walton’s"

By HRM Deborah

There was a time in America, when the average person did not overly emphasize about being a super power or excessively on patriotism, but about something more important, called living.

I first came into contact about this apparent dust ridden element of American society, when I was in my early teens by chance from a simple family program called, “The Walton’s.”

While I did not get to watch all the episodes of this program, it also did perk my interest to learn later from some of my reading, listening to older Americans and wonder yet what happened to a society that forgot that materialism was not so important, being bigger then the next guy or putting blame on someone else, was not so important; but living, family, hard work and sometimes as an individual to do the right thing was?

Furthermore, people could still look in the mirror and be happy with themselves.

Nevertheless, even in these more modern times, one listens to the older American’s wondering what happened to there country and just what went wrong or they will say it is the government that gave us all these troubles and some people listened to them; while they are worried, what is to happen to them next.

No Noor for Me

A Palestinian vendor displays a poster depicting the lead characters of Turkish TV soap opera 'Noor' in front of his shop, in the West Bank town of Nablus, on 21 July 2008.

Opinion

By HRM Deborah

People are talking these days about a soap opera, called "Noor," which is produced in Turkey and about its apparent very possible negative influence on society.

Having not seen the soap opera I can only guess, but I have been to American homes in the past, where the housewife pops on the television and can not wait to see a particular soap opera for they just can not seem to wait to see what happened to a particular character and not being rude; I seem to be stuck, with pun intended.

These American soap operas while I have seen bits and pieces over the years, I have never cared for them because they seem to always portray the immoral side of society.

The biggest of the formats seems to be crime, murder, promiscuity and their version of love; can be found at any dime store.

If one asks, if I run to turn the television on to watch these soap opera’s when I am to myself, most assuredly no; to be honest, most I am sorry to say should find there way, into the nearest dumpster.

Building Media City in Gaza

A Palestinian man works in a cattle farm project in the media city being developed by the Palestine Legal government, on 24 July 2008.

A Palestinian man works in a fish farm project in the media city being developed by the Palestine legal government, on 24 July 2008; in the former Jewish settlement of Gani Tal near Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

With the farms are in place to raise revenue for this project, with half of the necessary financing raised so far.

The Palestine legal government plan to build a $200 million media city and movie production studio with entertainment for children, restaurants, mock villages, and farms as a tourist attraction and to better the community’s economy.

A Palestinian man displays chicks, as he works in a chicken farm project; in the media city.

Another one bites the dust

23 July 2008

Snoop Dogg cancels Palestine gig, not because of internal problems with ticket sells or other production problems, but his respect for the country of Palestine and all her people and it was reported, Dogg was upset over U.S. Senator Barack Obama’s; recent illegal visit to the country.

With this understanding, Snoop Dogg should be given gratitude by all the Palestinian people, for his kindness towards our plight.

Something that is well known about the Queen of Palestine, she has always had great respect for the U.S. Black Community.

Comedian Ullman and Singer McCartney Coming to Palestine

Comedian well-known for her take on American stereotypes is to arrive in Palestine, to promote her new show, 'Tracey Ullman's State of the Nation;' along with coming soon after, British singer Paul McCartney, in 'Give my Regards to Broad Street.'

Comedian and actress Tracey Ullman plans to arrive, on 21 July.

As for British singer Paul McCartney, most everyone knows him for his days, as one of the members of the music groups, “The Beatles and Wings.”

While I do not know Comedian 'Tracey Ullman's work very well, as for Paul McCartney; I just have to say, I was a teenage once and did like some of his music.

French singer held up at border en route to Ramallah

Faudel, 'prince of rai'.

French-Algerian pop star Faudel delayed at Allenby border crossing on his way to Arab music festival in West Bank. Israeli source says delay stemmed from lack of coordination with authorities

12 July 2008
by Merav Yudilovitch

The French-Algerian singer Faudel, also known as the "prince of rai music," was delayed along with his entourage of ten people at the Allenby Bridge crossing on Wednesday evening. The singer was making his way to the West Bank city of Ramallah in order to perform at the Arab world's largest music festival, held annually in the ancient city of Jarash.

The French television network TF1 and the news agencies quoted Faudel's manager, Michel Levy, saying that the delegation to Ramallah was delayed by Israeli authorities. According to Levy the delay nearly caused irreparable damage to the show.

Faudel performed at the Palestinian Dance and Music Festival, sponsored by the French Consulate. In a press conference held by the event's organizer, Iman al-Khamouri, she told reporters that Faudel arrived late because of the Israeli authorities.

Pete Learner, spokesman for the Unit of Government Activities in the Territories, said that "the singer Faudel and his entourage's crossing was not coordinated with the unit beforehand, and therefore they were required to undergo the normal examination procedure conducted at border crossings, without special treatment.

"Following the incident, we have clarified to the French Consulate that in future cases they must coordinate with us ahead of time, so that we can facilitate the process for delegations such as this one."

30-year old Faudel Belloua was born in France to an Algerian family and grew up in the suburbs of Paris. His first album was released in 1997, and since then he has been considered one of the most successful pop stars in his home country. His fourth and latest album combines French and Arabic songs, and also leans heavily on Algerian culture in France.

Commentary

Faudel, I do apologize for the delay at the Allenby Bridge, but please understand we do have a terrorist problem yet in the country and security is tight until this problem is subdued.

So please in the future until the current situation is resolved just bare with us and contact everyone ahead of time to make everything easier for everyone, especially yourself and your entourage.

I also deeply apologize, to the French government.

Movie: Journey to the Center of the Earth

A science professor's untraditional hypotheses have made him the laughing stock of the academic community. But on an expedition in Iceland, he and his nephew stumble upon a major discovery that launches them on a thrilling journey deep beneath the Earth's surface, where they travel through never-before-seen worlds and encounter a variety of unusual creatures.

Some critics say while it is a good movie in 3D, do not expect to much of Jules Verne, who was the author of the story; to not quite so much follow the original storyline.

What I have seen just with the movie trailers, it does appear to be a very entertaining adventure and the special effects a delight.

Starring: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem
Directed by: Eric Brevig

Same Planet, Different World

43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Members of the Jury

Members of the festival jury (L-R) Czech musician Jan P. Muchow, Hungarian-born director of photography Vilmos Zsigmond, Dutch actress Johanna ter Steege, British actress Brenda Blethyn, Czech-born director and jury president Ivan Passer, Palestinian Jewish director Ari Folman and American producer Ted Hope attend a session of the jury during the 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on 10 July 2008, in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

by HRM Deborah

Every time I think of the Czech Republic, it reminds me of an exceptional man that my mother I met many years ago; I was about 19 years-old at the time.

Vandimer was his name and he was a world famous chief, what artistry he could do with food, especially presentation was remarkable.

While he was usually a very quite, soft spoken gentleman, which I admired too, he was always kind and would watch over (protected) my mother and I for a time; because as he would say we both where nice proper ladies and even to this day I still smile, along with remember what a very kind man he was.

Something else I do remember, was Vandimer was a very wise man.

In those days, Vandimer still called the country, Czechoslovakia and he was very proud he came from there.

Personally, I have always had admiration for the Czech Republic, because this remarkable man came from that particular country.

Folman Presents Film at International Film Festival

Jewish director Ari Folman presents his film "Waltz with Bashir," at the 43rd International Film Festival, on 9 July 2008; in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

While Mr. Folman, must be an excellent director; I do not think his latest movie would be to my taste.

For oddly enough, since I grew up and had to spend fifty years of my life, during a time of a long, deeply sad war; I usually do not care for movies associated with any precept of war.