by Marla Lewin image copyright Robert J. Saferstein  I first met David Mamet in Chicago, at his St. Nicholas Theatre. I was the guest of actor Robert Strom, and I sat between him and David, it was American Buffalo.  Bob was planning to do a one man show on Charlie Chaplin, and I was to write my first script for him. Bob was a member of the St. Nicholas company.  David wanted to know if I was an actress?  He offered to assist us with the play. David was not yet inter...

 "The Voysey Inheritance" is a play about greed involving an upper class family's crisis and ponzi schemes, sound familiar?  Harley Granville-Barker, one of the most unfamiliar playwrights of the early 20th century, wrote the play over 100 years ago in 1905. Barker, also an accomplished actor was overshadowed by the fame of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Granville-Barker also wrote detailed notes on how to stage Shakespeare. In 2006 David Mamet, one of Americas' most famous w...

By Maria Esteves - March 2, 2008 ORTHODOX STANCE Welterweight boxer Dmitriy Salita "Star of David" (28-0-1, 16 KOs) defeated his opponent Welterweight Fabian Luque "El Lobo" (21-7-4, 12 KOs) by a Technical Knock Out (TKO) in the fifth of ten rounds at the Roseland Ballroom, New York, Thursday, February 28, 10:00 PM. The Russians are coming boxing matches presented by Gotham Boxing in association with Bash Boxing, sponsored by Nemiroff, EVERLAST, Proactive Boxing and Automoti...

By Maria Esteves - February 3, 2008 The 2008 New York Jewish Film Festival Closing Night New York Premiere Documentary film of ORTHODOX STANCE, directed by Jason Hutt was held at the Walter Reade Theater, Thursday, January 24, 8:00 pm. A special Q&A preceded the Closing Night New York Premiere reception with Director/Producer/Writer Jason Hutt, Professional Boxer Dmitriy Salita, and Dmitriy's Manager/Advisor Israel Liberow, moderated by Andrew Ingall. ORTHODOX STANCE, is an outstanding...

This year’s Sacramento Film Festival features over 70 films from around the world including two outstanding international shorts programs: The first, Around the World in 80 Minutes examines life from five different parts of the world. From China comes Wen Jun Yang’s “Sojourn”, about a drifting freelance female writer, who meets a man from Shanghai. “Will she stop her drifting life and stay with her lover?” The story takes place in contemporary Shanghai. The filmmaker will be in atten...