Thursdays – Famous Jewish Personalities in Politics, Science, Music and Art
6/5 @ 3:15 – 6/12, 6/19 & 6/26 @ 3:00 PM/ CH
Instructor: Stuart Liss
6/5 Ed Sullivan for entertainers of all stripes, an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show could make their career overnight—unless they rubbed the show’s host the wrong way. From the birth of The Beatles to the blacklisting of Bo Diddley, here are various facts about Ed Sullivan, the ultimate Hollywood star maker.
6/ 12 Gilbert Gottfried Most people might not recognize his name, but almost everyone can pick out Gilbert Gottfried’s unmistakable, grating, nasal voice. And while he kept his comedy sharp and his fans laughing until the very end, his life and career were even more bizarre than the wildest jokes he ever told.
6/19 Joe Kennedy He dreamed of the White House—but left behind a curse instead. Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was the powerful patriarch of America’s most iconic political dynasty, with presidential ambitions of his own. But behind the polished image lurked shady business deals, dangerous political sympathies, and scandalous affairs. In the end, his legacy wasn’t a presidency…it was a chilling trail of tragedy that would haunt the Kennedy name for generations.
6/26 Deborah Kerr This British beauty made a living playing prim and proper schoolteachers, nuns, and princesses. Deborah Kerr, however, longed for roles that would allow her to let her hair down. Well, when she found herself dressed only in a bikini and cavorting in the waves with a hunky Burt Lancaster, her career changed forever. But did her morals? Kerr played a very public tug-of-war between the saintly and the saucy. But who was the real Deborah Kerr?
