r MIMI 1=111 MINI I I I I I /= /- /- \—, /—' 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 /— 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. 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