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…Emerging Writer Village Players stages new work by "unknown" playwright. Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News T he sole remaining member of a New York social and ath- letic club meets up with the soul of a departed member in Joe Feinstein's play The Last of the Aztecs, which is being staged Aug. 11-12 by the Village Players of Birmingham. . The play, seen for six weeks at the MET Theatre in Los Angeles, addresses issues of grief an...…
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…Arts & Entertainment E 0 . 0 About Time Millie Perkins and Don Diamont play mother and son in The Young and the Restless. Daytime Drama from page 43 writer Lynn Latham, who confirmed that Kaplan was Jewish. "I said, `This isn't what we typically do here; we do baptisms and weddings in front of the cross: And she [replied], `We're going to change that." The change means that Diamont will play perhaps the only overtly Jewish lead on dayti...…
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