Daniel Kimmel spoke on the “Comedy of Billy Wilder” at Hillsdale College’s fourth Center for Constructive Alternatives of the academic year on Billy Wilder. Kimmel is the past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics and the founding co-chair of the Boston Online Film Critics Association. For many years his reviews appeared in...
Last Wednesday, the SHALOM Club hosted Liora Bachrach, Midwest Campus Coordinator for StandWithUs, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the world about Israel, to address anti-semitism and how to combat it in the modern world. In her speech, Bachrach called attention to the anti-semitism that still exists in the world today under the guise...
“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant, and a bastard.” This is how Billy Wilder described his role in 1960, the year of “The Apartment,” for which he won three Academy Awards as not only director, but also producer and screenwriter. Anthony Lane from The New Yorker wrote of Wilder’s...
In the early hours of the morning on Sunday, June 24, 1923, an attack was launched in an attempt to destroy the fruit shop of the Cascarelli family, a hardworking, Italian family living in Hillsdale, Michigan. And the perpetrator is still a mystery today. The Cascarellis found their home in the hushed, quaint town...
Southern Michigan is in one of two narrow latitudinal bands where any remnants of the Tiangong-1 spacecraft might land when they re-enter the atmosphere, although most of it is expected to burn up upon re-entry. The spacecraft is now projected to fall sometime between March 30 and April 8, according to the European...