Jewish star Robert Downey Jr. wore the necklace as he accepted the Maltin Modern Master Award for his role in Oppenheimer.
With their proven track record, Oppenheim, Sharon, and their cohorts will do the British comics justice and leave their Opera House patrons whistling a tune or two, smiling, or possibly laughing.
An Israeli short film, Letter to a Pig, by Tal Kantor and Amit Gicelter, was nominated in the Short Animated Film category.
Oppenheimer’s story is the right story, at the right time, on the right topic. It takes us back to a history rife with scientific excitement, security fears, and dystopian politics.
In 1942, the US Army gave 32 Hispano families on the Pajarito Plateau 48 hours to leave their homes so they could build the lab for atomic bomb construction.
Oppenheimer is a movie with power, texture, and grace.
“To the outside world, he was always known as a German Jew, and he always insisted that he was neither German nor Jewish,” said author Ray Monk.
The animosity between Strauss and Oppenheimer had probably several different dimensions.
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