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Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah
Visual History Foundation, which has
videotaped the testimonies of more
than 50,000 survivors.
The documentary's director, James
Moll, who wrote a special commen-
tary for last week's issue of The Jewish
News ("Director Raises Concerns Over
Last Days Review, March 19), thanked
the foundation for "assuring that sur-
vivors will have a voice for generations
to come.
In the Documentary Short Subject
division, the winner was The Personals:
Improvisations on Romance in the
Golden Years.
In her acceptance speech, filmmak-
er Keiko Ibi expressed her wonder that
a film by a Japanese woman on the
lives of Jewish senior citizens could
garner an Oscar.
Ibi, a New York University film
school student, met her cast on New
York's Lower East Side, where they
were members of the Alliance Stage
theater group.
"I think she clearly touched a chord
in the seniors, who clearly touched a
chord in her," said Alan Goodman,
executive director of the Educational
Alliance, a Jewish social service agency
that has worked with immigrant pop-
ulations for more than a century.
"The seniors are a generation of
immigrants from many years ago, and
the director is somebody who's new,"
said Goodman.
"But the feelings are still the same
— the same emotions, the same strug-
gles and aspirations.. I think that some
of that kind of language, that emo-
tional language, is universal."
Two Jewish men who influenced
the movie industry in different ways
— the late director Stanley Kubrick
and film critic Gene Siskel — were
commemorated in special tributes.
During the long evening, there was,
as usual, some Jewish-themed humor.
Norman Jewison, who directed and
produced the 1971 movie version of
Fiddler on the Roof accepted the Irving
Thalberg Award by dancing onstage to
the strains of "If I Were a Rich Man."
Acknowledging the applause, the
non-Jewish filmmaker told the audi-
ence, "Not bad for a goy."
In the final acceptance speech of
the evening, Harvey Weinstein, head
of Miramax Films, which produced
Shakespeare in Love, ended his list of
thanks with a tribute to his mother —
"who makes Jewish mothers look
good."

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— JTA staff writer Julia Goldman in
New York contributed to this report.

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