Have You Heard the One About the Rabbi Who Didn't Memorize His Lines?

Usually an Off Broadway theater company trumpets its production starring an Academy Award winner. But not so the Culture Project with its production of Colin Greer’s play “Imagining Heschel,” running through Nov. 28 at the Cherry Lane Theater and starring Richard Dreyfuss (a 1977 Oscar winner for best actor in “The Goodbye Girl”) as the prominent 20th century Jewish theologian Abraham Heschel.

The Culture Project has canceled the opening night for the production, which began performances on Nov. 4, and has asked theater critics not to review the show, which imagines what was said during years of conversations between Rabbi Heschel and Cardinal Augustin Bea as they worked to improve Jewish-Catholic relations.

Allan Buchman, the founder and artistic director of the Culture Project, said in an interview on Thursday that he and others decided the production was not ready for critical scrutiny, and that they feared mixed or negative reviews would damage the play’s chances for future stagings. Among other issues, rewrites to the script were underway through late last week, and Mr. Dreyfuss, 63, had agreed to perform on the condition that he not have to participate in a normal rehearsal schedule and that he not have to commit all of his lines to memory.

Three months ago, Mr. Buchman said, the Culture Project held a private reading of the play with Mr. Dreyfuss and the composer and performer Rinde Eckert (“Orpheus X”) as Bea. Mr. Buchman said he, the director Larry Moss, and Mr. Greer “felt Richard did a huge job and had a great affinity for the material,” noting that Mr. Dreyfuss had memorably recited Kaddish in a 1994 commemoration of the Holocaust at the Vatican in the presence of Pope John Paul II.

“At the same time, Richard was upfront with us that he had more or less retired from the theater,” Mr. Buchman said. “He made it clear that while he was interested in doing the play, he didn’t want to be part of a full production. So we thought that him being partially on book would add a lot more than having another actor who had memorized all of his lines, and we cherished the idea of him and Rinde having a go at it.

“And we felt what Richard was contributing through the dramaturgical and theatrical process added a lot more to the production than having another actor go through the full rehearsal process.” Tickets at the 179-seat theater are $61 apiece.

Mr. Dreyfuss arrived in New York on Halloween and performances began Nov. 4; normally, the cast and crew would have had at least a few weeks of rehearsal. But from the first night, Mr. Buchman said, the production was clearly a work-in-progress, with Mr. Greer doing rewrites until last Friday — a process that normally culminates during rehearsals — and Mr. Dreyfuss reading lines from his script during performances.

“While we think this is a provocative night at the theater, we also didn’t want to risk penalizing the future of the play,” Mr. Buchman said. “If we got reviews and the reviews were lukewarm at best, the chances of this play having a future at regional theaters and elsewhere would be absolutely nil.” He added that the actors, Mr. Greer, Mr. Moss and members of the Heschel family all agreed with this course of action.

Jane Dystel, Mr. Dreyfuss’s agent, said she was unaware of any significant problems with the production.

Mr. Dreyfuss, 63, is known in the acting community as strong-willed and blunt. His last major theatrical outing was supposed to be as the lead character Max Bialystock in the Mel Brooks musical “The Producers” in London, but he was fired from the show in October 2004 just days before preview performances were to begin.

Mr. Buchman said there had been no such problems with “Heschel” because Mr. Dreyfuss had made clear to the everyone that he was only willing to do so much to prepare for the show. “I know Richard’s reputation, and he has not shied away from offering his viewpoints during the production, but he has also been nothing but professional,” Mr. Buchman said.

He added that he hoped to mount “a full production with a full production schedule” of the play in a year or so, but did not expect Mr. Dreyfuss to return to the role.

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Bill Clinton's Camp Coy About Possible 'Hangover 2' Cameo

November 15, 2010, 1:25 pm

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Given the level of curiosity and news media coverage that has greeted a possible course of action that may have been taken by former President Bill Clinton, you’d think he was still in office, having just decided on a candidate for a vacancy in his cabinet or on the Supreme Court.

But no. On Monday, a spokesman for Mr. Clinton would neither confirm nor deny that the former president had filmed a cameo appearance in “The Hangover 2,” a sequel to the hit Todd Phillips comedy.

In response to an e-mail from my colleague Michael D. Shear, Matt McKenna, the spokesman, wrote: “Sorry you got stuck with this one today, but I don’t have anything for you.”

Over the weekend the Internet was abuzz with reports from Web sites like TMZ.com and People.com that said Mr. Clinton had been filmed in a small role for “The Hangover 2″ while on a trip to Bangkok. (TMZ.com also posted photographs that it said showed Mr. Clinton on the set.)

“The Hangover,” an R-rated comedy about a bachelor party in Las Vegas that goes very, very wrong, was one of the biggest box office hits last year, selling more than $467 million in tickets worldwide. The original film featured an extended cameo by the boxer Mike Tyson, playing a satirical version of himself, and “The Hangover 2″ briefly made headlines amid reports that an amends-making Mel Gibson would pop up in the movie, though Mr. Gibson’s role has since gone to Liam Neeson.

While a raunchy comedy might not be the most dignified place for a politician of Mr. Clinton’s stature to turn up, it would not be entirely without precedent: Senator John McCain of Arizona had a cameo in the R-rated comedy “Wedding Crashers” in 2005, three years before he was the Republican Party’s nominee for the presidency.

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Microsoft’s Bing About to Include Information Regarding Facebook Users to Compete Google

(press release distribution) SAN FRANCISCO (DPA) Recent updates confirms that Microsoft Bing will combine the results of consultation with data available in the network, which already has more than 500 million users, with the aim of providing more relevant and personalized results.

Microsoft launched a new strategy to compete with Google on the market for Internet advertising, by agreement of the Bing with the social network Facebook. In this way, Microsoft and Facebook expanded the search with the options offered by social networks. The idea is that what appears on the list of results Bing combined with information from friends, acquaintances and relatives. Thus, online searches will become more personalized and more quickly shed most relevant results for the user.

Analysts believe the association an attempt by Microsoft to reduce the distance it takes its competitor Google. With its continued growth and its more than 500 million users, Facebook has a huge network of social connections. Google is also working in parallel to design the future of Internet search. Their project is ambitious, because by their knowledge of users want their own initiative to provide information they consider may be of interest.

In searching the Internet is not just about the connection between data, but also between people, said Microsoft in announcing the project jointly. Thus, the new “Liked Results” included results of Facebook contacts that have marked events, proposals or pages with the phrase “I like it.” “People make decisions using information from their friends,” said Microsoft, which gave the example of personal recommendations on movies, restaurants or mobile phones. With the new user can choose from the list on the results that have been expressed and their friends.

It will also be easier to find friends and acquaintances in Bing. Both companies stressed that respect the privacy of those involved and will only public information.

Internet search is more than 50 percent of millionaire business online advertising. The greater the number of users, the more ads attracts a search engine. Microsoft continues to have no weight in the market even after buying Yahoo! division specializing in it. According to September data from market research firm com Score, Bing was in the United States a share of 11.2 percent of the market, compared with 16.7 66.1 Yahoo and Google. In Europe, Google’s dominance is even greater.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, believes that everything people do has a social component and therefore wants to create from its platform a network of connections for all aspects of life. Three years ago Microsoft bought a 1.6 per cent in the capital of the platform.

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