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of every argument, and nothing that
seriously conflicts with her views is
given much attention. But it does face
up to Rand's greatest embarrassment —
when she patronized and then became
the lover of ayoung man named
Nathaniel Braden, only to have him
turn out to be something of a fraud.
Well, nobody said she was perfect.
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Lift is beauti-
fully produced, smooth in technique,
with obviously great resources to pull
from. It includes rare TV and movie
clips, new interviews with friends and
commentators (such as Mike Wallace),
animated sequences and stock footage
of historical events (such as Rand's
appearance before the House Un-
American Activities Committee).
Nearly 400 of her personal pho-
tographs, courtesy of the Ayn Rand
Institute's (ARI) archives were made
available, as was access to her unpub-
lished screenplays, philosophic notes
and Russian memorabilia — much of
this material never before seen by the
public.
Aside from its one-sidedness, the
film suffers from excess length. At two
hours and 20 minutes, the movie
offers us more Rand than I cared to
know. Nevertheless, friends and adver-
saries alike might well agree that here
was one astonishing woman. ❑
Ayn Rand A Sense ofLift will be
shown exclusively at the Birming-
ham Theatre as part of the second
annual "Best of the Academy Film
Festival" Friday, March 13,
through Sunday, March 22.
Call (248) 644-FILM or check
your local listings for showtimes.
For more information
Rand and her philosophy of objec-
tivism, and the activities of the
Ayn Rand Institute, including
annual essay contests, contact the
Ayn Rand Institute, 4640 Admi
ralty Way, Suite 406, Marina del
Rey, CA 90292; (310) 306-9232;
mail@a.ynrand.org
COLORS STRAIGHT UP
TOM TUGEND
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Special to The Jewish News
liff ichele Ohayon was
nursing her 2-month-
old baby wher the
phone rang with the
announcement that her film, Colors
Straight Up, had been nominated for
an Academy Award.
At that early hour, 5:45 a.m., she
immediately picked up the phone in
her Hollywood home to call Jerusalem
and break the good news to her par-
ents.
If Ohayon were shooting a movie
of her own life, she would probably
flash back to Casablanca, where she
was born 38 years ago, and then to
1965, when her family immigrated to
Israel.
Other flashbacks would show her in
her first job as an assistant editor with
Israel television at age 17, her army
service and her first professional recog-
nition while a Tel Aviv University stu-
dent for her short film Pressure, the
love story of an Arab boy and a Jewish
girl. It would then cut to 1987, when
she first came to Hollywood.
Cutting back to the present, Ohay-
on sat down in a noisy Hollywood
coffee shop recently to talk about the
genesis of Colors Straight Up.
It was 1992, and she had just spent
four years directing and producing her
first feature-length documentary, It
Was a Wonderful Life. The film dealt
with homeless women, once seemingly
secure in their middle-class status,
who through divorce, misfortune or
circumstance were reduced to living
on the street.
When the looting in South-Central
Los Angeles exploded that year after
the Rodney King verdict, Ohayon was
shaken by the general condemnation
of the black teen-age rioters, and
decided to look for herself.
Driving from her home in the Hol-
lywood Hills to Watts was like travel-
ing from a First World country to a
Third World enclave, Ohayon discov-
ered.
She also discovered, at Jordan High
School in Watts, an after-school per-
forming and visual arts program called
Living Literature/Colors United.
Through the program, African
American and Latino teen-agers were
finding a refuge from the mean streets
of drugs and gang shootings in daily
and weekend rehearsals under the
"tough-love" discipline of white and
black directors.
Ohayon wasn't sure how "a white
Jewish girl" from Hollywood would be
received by the [black and Latino]
youngsters and she mapped out her
campaign in her characteristically
meticulous and time-demanding style.
For the first year, Ohayon, often
accompanied by her preschool daugh-
ter, attended rehearsals, talked to the
youngsters, shared their meals and vis-
ited their homes.
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