Tag: World War II
Dec. 2, 2016
Brad Pitt stars in WWII romance-drama ‘Allied’
Does Brad Pitt have some kind of obsession with World War II? I mean, he’s gone from Nazi-scalping hillbilly to grizzled tank commander and now…
Dec. 2, 2016
‘An American in Paris’ comes to Kimmel Center
The Kimmel Center opened its Broadway Philadelphia season this November, and there could not have been a better way to do it than with director…
Nov. 18, 2016
Colby Lindeman on touring with ‘An American in Paris’
Opening in Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is the four-time Tony Award-winning musical “An American in Paris,” which boasts of an…
Aug. 21, 2015
Seventy years after Hiroshima, and still no apology
When I teach students about World War II, I reserve two topics for the end of the discussion: the Holocaust and the atomic bomb. Both…
Nov. 6, 2014
Nazis working for US government
As everyone knows, there was a considerable brain drain from Nazi Germany in the 1930s as leading artists and scientists, many of them Jewish, sought…
Feb. 14, 2014
Clooney’s ‘Monuments Men’ not too monumental
In previous World War II films, the main theme that has been documented is the human cost of war. George Clooney’s “The Monuments Men,” aims…
May. 13, 2011
Victory gardens can still be of use
Maxwell Balbin At the onset of World War II, the United States government rationed materials in order to ensure its armed forces were properly supplied…