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OH HAN UKKAH

This year Hanukkah begins on Friday, December 11. Several theatrical groups have special presentations.

100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DYBBUK

A Yiddish advertisement for the 1920 Warsaw production.

(or Between Two Worlds) the world’s most famous Jewish play, by S. Ansky will be celebrated by The Congress for Jewish Culture with a virtual presentation of the play featuring an all-star international cast including Mike Burstyn based in Los Angeles; Shane Baker (New York); Mendy Cahan (Tel Aviv); Refoyel Goldwasser (Buenos Aires); Daniel Kahn (Berlin); Amitai Kedar (Tel Aviv); Yelena Shmulenson (New York) as the possessed bride; Suzanne Toren (New York); and Michael Wex (Toronto).

Under the direction of Allen Lewis Rickman, who will also provide English narration, the online production of The Dybbuk will premiere on Monday, December 14th at 7 p.m. EST on the Congress for Jewish Culture’s YouTube channel. It will be performed in Yiddish featuring English subtitles, with a script adapted by Allen Lewis Rickman (from an adaptation by Dina Halperin, who appeared in the 1937 film version).

Playwright S. Ansky wrote The Dybbuk from late 1913 through 1915 in Russian and it was later translated into Yiddish by Ansky himself. The play had its world premiere in that language, performed by the Vilna Troupe in Warsaw on December 9, 1920, 30 days after the playwright’s death.

The Dybbuk was subsequently translated into over a dozen languages and performed thousands of times all over the world. On September 1, 1921, the play had its American premiere at the grand opening of Maurice Schwartz’ Yiddish Art Theatre in New York, starring Schwartz and Celia Adler. The play was an important artistic and commercial hit and ran for 18 weeks. Along with numerous Broadway productions, the film adaptation of The Dybbuk was released in 1937 directed by Michal Waszynski. It is still being produced in countless adaptations, as well as operas, ballets and symphonic suites. (For example, in 2011 there were seven different productions.) The play is considered the jewel of the Jewish theatre.

Based on years of research by S. Ansky, who traveled between Jewish shtetls in Russia and Ukraine, documenting folk beliefs and stories of the Hassidic Jews, The Dybbuk relates the story of a young bride possessed by a dybbuk – a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person – on the eve of her wedding.

This virtual presentation serves as a particularly personal way to honor The Dybbuk as two members of the company had close relationships with notable figures from the play’s initial premieres. As a young teen, Mike Burstyn appeared in three plays with Maurice Schwartz and the two families became lifelong friends. Shane Baker’s mentor, Luba Kadison, had a small role in the original production and she went on to star as Leah, a role she would reprise throughout her years onstage. Her father Leib Kadison founded the Vilna Troupe during World War I.

Founded in 1948, the Congress of Jewish Culture is a secular organization based in New York City. Executive Director Shane Baker, who is serving as producer for this undertaking, maintains its longstanding commitment to enriching Yiddish culture worldwide.

THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS a global virtual evening of music and community with more than fifty performers from around the world, supporting theNational Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF). Tickets are freee/donations encouraged.

Special guest appearances by:

Tovah Feldshuh

Emanuel Azenberg, Mayim Bialik, Billy Crystal, Tovah Feldshuh, Beanie Feldstein, Joel Grey, Jackie Hoffman, Carol Kane, Barry Manilow, Mandy Patinkin, Itzhak Perlman, Eleanor Reissa, Neil Sedaka, Steven Skybell, Dr Ruth Westheimer, Jerry Zaks, Carol Burnett, Jennifer Babiak, Joanne Borts, Geni Brenda, Rebecca Brudner, Mendy Cahan, Efim Chorny & Susan Ghergus.

Mayim Bialik

The chorus includes:

Motl Didner, John Dolgin, Lisa Fishman, Magda Fishman, Kirk Geritano, Brian Glassman, Abby Goldfarb, Jazmin Gorsline, Samantha Hahn, Elmore James, Cameron Johnson, Daniel Kahn, Richard Kass, Heather Klein, Miwazow Kogure, Yeva Lapsker, Ben Liebert, Shura Lipovsky, Frank London,Stephanie Lynne Mason, Zalmen Mlotek, Freydi Mrocki, Rosie Jo Neddy, Raquel Nobile, Tony Perry, Lexi Rabadi, Daniella Rabbani, Bruce Sabath, Dylan Seders Hoffman, Kayleen Seidl, Drew Seigla, Adam B Shapiro, Merlin Shepherd, Polina Shepherd, D Zisl Slepovitch, Dinah Slepovitch, Jodi Snyder, Matt Temkin, Lauren Jeanne Thomas, Bobby Underwood, Tatiana Wechsler, Mikhl Yashinsky, and Rachel Zatcoff.

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, commonly known as NYTF, is a professional theater company in New York City which produces both Yiddish plays and plays translated into Yiddish, in a theater equipped with simultaneous superscript translation into English.

It is Folksbiene! LIVE The Theatre that staged the highly successful Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish.

Matthew “Motl” Didner is the Associate Artistic Director of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. He was the Associate Director: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish.

SKIRBALL HANUKKAH CELEBRATION IN LOS ANGELES premiers on YouTube Sunday, December 13, 3:00 pm (PT).

Enjoy a heartwarming community candle lighting and a lively sing-along to get you feeling festive. Groove to the klezmer beat of LA’s own Mostly Kosher, jam to the psychedelic funk of Israeli superstar Gili Yalo, and gather ’round for a timely puppetry performance that retells the age-old Hanukkah story. If you tune in on Sunday, when the program premieres, you can participate in a virtual game for prizes.

Can’t make the premiere? There’s plenty of time to enjoy the Skirball Hanukkah Celebration. The video will be available on YouTube for you and your family to watch throughout Hanukkah and beyond.

The annual Hanukkah festival held at the Los Angeles Skirball Cultural Center features storytelling, good food, art, and live music.

IN MIAMI you can stare at a giant seashell menorah lit up and on display for everyone to see. This surf-side masterpiece weighs a staggering 2,000 pounds.

HANUKKAH 2020 IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY is a major event. They take the eight nights of Hanukkah are transformed into a massive city-wide festival celebrated throughout all the neighborhoods and into the streets. The two neighborhoods that make up the Jewish quarter in Budapest are called Quarter 6 and Quarter 7 (hence the festival name). When you think of Quarter6Quarter7, think full on flash mobs, theater performances, film screenings, street disco concerts, and so much more. A popular fave is that they rent out an entire ice rink and gather around to sing Hanukkah songs, skate, and light up the menorah.

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ART AND ABOUT

THE MUSEUM OF BAD ART is zooming in. They are adapting to the restrictions of pandemic life by offering a series of MOBA programs via Zoom.

Programs include:

MOBA 101 - An introduction to the Museum Of Bad Art

LIVING IN TOUGH TIMES – As we endure a global pandemic, political upheaval, and unrelenting climate change, we examine works from the MOBA Collection to consider how art reflects adversity.

DOPPLEHANGERS– An examination of paintings from the MOBA Collection that, accidentally or by design, resemble famous people.

IN THE NOOD – Consistent with every other major museum, the MOBA Collection contains a number of works celebrating the human form. It is not obvious, however, that all the artists have actually seen a naked person.

A VISIT TO THE MOBA ZOO – An examination of works from the MOBA Collection featuring our furry, feathered, and fishy friends.

Headquartered in Massachusetts, The Museum of Bad Art is the only museum in the world dedicated to the collection, exhibition and preservation of bad art in all its forms.

CHRISTMAS AT THE CASTLE that would be Windsor Castle, opened December 3, 2020. Visitors can explore the Christmas display in the State Apartments as part of a visit to the Castle. The centerpiece of the display is the 20-foot-high Nordmann Fir tree dressed with hundreds of iridescent and mirrored ornaments in St George's Hall through January 4, 2021.

JERRY WEINTRAUB PRESENTS a Grammy Museum Collection Live featuring interviews and/or performances.

On Thursday, December 17 it's the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Asleep At The Wheel featuring Ray Benson Andrew Bird, Bettye LaVette with Producer Steve Jordan, MisterWives and G.E. Smith.

THIS LONGING VESSEL: STUDIO MUSEUM ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 2019–20 In the second year of a multi-part collaboration, The Studio Museum in Harlem presents its annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition at MoMA PS1. This Longing Vessel will feature new work by the 2019–20 cohort of the Studio Museum’s foundational residency program, artists E. Jane (b. 1990, Bethesda, MD), Naudline Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA), and Elliot Reed (b. 1992, Milwaukee, WI). With practices spanning new media, performance, and painting, this collaborative exhibition enacts a radical intimacy—a vessel to hold and be held by. In longing, the works shown here find the intersection between queerness and blackness as a waypoint: one to yearn from, to reach toward, to leap beyond. "This Longing Vessel troubles and excites ways of seeing, seeking new language for the building of extraordinary futures."

Organized by Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem; with Yelena Keller, Curatorial Assistant, The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Josephine Graf, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA PS1.

Opens Thursday at at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, NY.

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SWEET CHARITY

TO BEIRUT WITH LOVE star-studded Sotheby's auction to help Beirut port blast victims. Online bidding takes place December 7-15. Following the sale, in collaboration with IMPACT Lebanon and LIFE (Lebanese International Finance Executives), the proceeds will be shared among five charities, ensuring money reaches the areas that need it the most.

The To Beirut With Love auction features items estimated at $326,000-$465,000, including Emma Stone’s 2015 Oscars gown by Elie Saab. The chartreuse long-sleeve dress is estimated to fetch between $26,000-$40,000. and former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell.

Other highlights include a jacket worn by Jagger on the Rolling Stones 2017 European tour, and the matador-inspired costume by Lebanese designer Nicolas Jebran that Madonna donned at the 2015 Brit Awards.

Former spice Girl Geri Halliwell’s outfit in the video for the Spice Girls’ debut single Wannabe is also going under the hammer, estimated between $5,300-$8,000. In an Instagram post, she said she bought the sequined dress second-hand from Notting Hill market in London.

The auction also offers a rare opportunity to acquire a metallic gown with a huge train designed and worn by Egyptian actress Sherihan in the 80s. Valued at $24,000-$33,000, the gown took seven months to complete. Supermodel Naomi Campbell has donated one of her favorite portraits, shot by photographers Rocco Lapasta and Charles DeCaro ($3,000-$6,600), while photographer Fouad Elkoury has contributed a black-and-white photograph from his Suite Egyptienne series, inspired by the Oriental travels of French writer Gustave Flaubert.

The jewellery portion of the sale includes a woven yellow gold My Dior cuff, valued at $40,000-$66,500; a Bulgari Monete necklace, estimated at $4,000-$6,600, and a limited-edition pill bracelet with diamond skull designed by artist Damien Hirst, which is estimated to fetch between $10,600-$126,000.

MUSICARES LAUNCHES 'HELP FOR THE HOLIDAYS' an e-card program. As part of continued COVID-19 Relief, MusiCares is offering $250 essential goods e-cards to the first 4,000 eligible applicants. Applications opened on Dec. 1. Additionally, MusiCares has updated its list of COVID-19 relief online resources, which now includes a food insecurity hotline (1-800-5HUNGRY) and Find Food search with WhyHunger, a leading organization working to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the U.S. and worldwide.

The COVID-19 Relief effort started in March 2020 with initial seed donations of $1 million each by MusiCares and the Recording Academy®. To date, $20 million has been distributed to help more than 20,000 music people across a wide variety of genres and roles in the industry. However, more is needed to meet the demand. Any professionals with at least three years of past employment history in music and demonstrated need can apply for the essential goods e-card from MusiCares. All genres and professions are eligible, including artists, musicians, production crews, technicians, business teams and anyone impacted by the loss of income due to live music event cancellations.

If you are a member of the music industry in need of assistance or wish to support MusiCares' efforts to aid music professionals in need, visit MusiCares.org.

RED BULL THEATER

Robert Cuccioli

presents a benefit reading of A King and No King by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher. Directed by José Zayas.

Featuring Rajesh Bose, Robert Cuccioli, Edmund Donovan, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Topher Embrey, Chukwudi Iwuji, Teresa Avia Lim, Cara Ricketts, Socorro Santiago, Reagan Tankersly, Craig Wallace, and CJ Wilson takes place Monday, December 14th at 7:30PM EST.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely in this delicious Jacobean tragicomedy. Arbaces, the King of Iberia, conquers Tigranes, King of Armenia, and offers him noble treatment -- and his sister, Panthea, for a wife. But it's been awhile since Arbaces has seen Panthea, and when he does, he is seized with incestuous passion. Arbaces resists this forbidden love with all his might -- until Panthea professes she loves him too! But now, what to do about Tigranes?

This event will premiere live at 7:30 PM EDT on Monday, December 14th. A recording of the livestream will be available until 7PM EDT on Friday, December 18th – then it disappears forever. This is a free event, but advance reservations are recommended. Make a tax-deductible donation today to support Red Bull and invest in the vitality of classical theater for a contemporary audience.

SPREADING THE WORD

LONDON'S NATIONAL THEATRE in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, sees the future and has reacted by instituting a paid streaming service for its impressive and extensive list of plays, which feature stars like Dame Helen Mirren and Olivia Colman.

The rotating lineup includes Dame Helen's Phèdre, Medea starring Helen McCrory? and Michaela Coel, and Adrian Lester's Othello.

Productions staged by the National's partner theatres can also be viewed, including the Young Vic's Yerma with Billie Piper and the Donmar Warehouse's Coriolanus starring Tom Hiddleston.

The roster also include plays that have not previously been shown in cinemas or online - such as Mosquitoes, a 2017 play by Lucy Kirkwood in which Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams play sisters and Inua?Ellams’ new version of Chekhov’sThree Sisters (a co-production with Fuel).

New titles will be added each month. They will available worldwide online and on smart TV and mobile apps, with payment options of a monthly or annual subscription to access the full catalogue and exclusive backstage content, or can opt to rent single plays for a 72-hour window. For unlimited access to the catalogue on National Theatre at Home, a subscription will be £9.98 ($13.37) per month or £99.98 ($134.00) per year. For access to a single play in a 72-hour window, it will be £5.99 for an NT Archive title and National Theatre Live titles are available from £7.99.

The London venue is currently closed but will reopen on December 11, 2020 with a socially-distanced production of Dick Whittington, only the second pantomime the venue has ever staged.

THE LOS ANGELES TIMES has reported that 12 people - among them guests and former employees - have accused the famed Los Angeles Magic Castle management, staff, performers and academy members of sexual assault, sexual harassment and discrimination on the basis of race or gender. Some of these people, including a handful who have sued the academy, claim that when they voiced complaints to management, their concerns were not addressed or they suffered retaliatory actions, including loss of employment.

YOU'LL WANT TO SEE One Night Only: The Best of Broadway airing December 10, 2020 on NBC.

The two-hour special hosted by Tina Fey and featuring the casts of Ain’t Too Proud; Jagged Little Pill; Mean Girls and appearances by Kelly Clarkson, Leslie Odom Jr., Jake Gyllenhaal and Patti LaBelle.

JACK THORNE'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL will star Andrew Lincoln as Ebenezer Scrooge in this year’s live Old Vic: In Camera version – and this year you'll be able to watch it live from the comfort of your own home along with family and friends, even if you can't physically be together this Christmas.

Joining Andrew will be Melissa Allan, Rosanna Bates, John Dagleish, Tim van Eyken, Sam Lathwood, Eugene McCoy, Myra McFadyen, Gloria Obianyo, Maria Omakinwa, Clive Rowe, Samuel Townsend, Golda Rosheuvel and Michael Rouse.

Back for the fourth year running, the critically acclaimed, award-winning production will be live streamed from The Old Vic stage in London from December 12-24 to continue the Old Vic's beloved Christmas tradition – only this time we'll be bringing the music and merriment directly into your home with our fully accessible, global live streamed performances.

A SLIGHTLY WICKED HOLIDAY SHOW takes place Saturday, December 19 in socially distanced and limited capacity seating at the The Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, CT.

Starring Alli Mauzey, Dee Roscioli and Sam Gravitte. Ring in the holidays with some of Broadway’s best with a brand new holiday show that’s perfect for the entire family. Cast members of Wicked, Hello Dolly!, The Cher Show and more, will perform holiday classics – “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year,” “I Want To Be A Rockette,” “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” and “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” along with Broadway tunes including “Think Of Me” from Phantom of the Opera and “For Good” and “As Long As You’re Mine” from Wicked The Musical.

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS A Holiday Special in Song and on Screen with a book by Hugh Wheeler. Songs by Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane. Based on The Kensington Stories by Sally Benson and the MGM Motion Picture Meet Me in St. Louis. Adapted and Directed by Charlotte Moore.

Music Direction by John Bell with orchestrations by Josh Clayton.

Featuring Shereen Ahmed, William Bellamy, Rufus Collins, Kerry Conte, Melissa Errico, Ali Ewoldt, Kathy Fitzgerald, Ian Holcomb, Jay Aubrey Jones, Austyn Johnson, Kylie Kuioka, Ashley Robinson, and Max Von Essen.

In this heartwarming holiday musical, the Smith family grapples with life changes and new love in a bustling St. Louis on the brink of the 1904 World’s Fair. This special digital adaptation from Charlotte Moore (who played Anna Smith in the original Broadway cast) will include favorite tunes, including The Trolley Song; The Boy Next Door, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, along with the romantic suitors, comedic misunderstandings, and jovial pranks that make this classic musical a holiday treat for families of all ages, no matter where you’re celebrating this year.

This new digital production is an abridged version of the 1989 Broadway musical, based on the 1944 film starring Judy Garland. Irish Repertory Theatre last presented Meet Me in St. Louis in 2007. At the Irish Rep on line December 11, 2020 – January 2, 2021.

SHOSHANA BEAN SING YOUR HALLELUJAH A Holiday Concert Event Filmed Live at the Apollo Theater streaming December 12.

Featuring Gavin Creel, Jared Grimes, Jeremy Jordan, Shayna Steele, Connie Talbot, and Daniel J. Watts.

Broadway star and Billboard #1 recording artist Shoshana Bean began a holiday tradition with her acclaimed, sold out shows at the world-famous Apollo Theater in New York City. Shoshana keeps that tradition alive this year with Sing Your Hallelujah, a holiday concert event filmed live at the Harlem landmark.

With fresh interpretations of holiday classics, intimate collaborations with special guests and honest reflections of an unprecedented year in history, Shoshana reimagines the Christmas television special of long ago.

"When I stand on the Apollo stage, something magical and powerful always takes over. While circumstances prevented us from gathering and celebrating in the way we are accustomed, I couldn't let this holiday pass without giving the best gift I know how to give. The gift of joy, healing and connection through music," Shoshana Bean commented.

Sing Your Hallelujah will premiere across the globe in rolling streaming events, starting at 8:00 PM AEST in Australia, 8:00 PM GMT in the UK and 9:00 PM EST in the US through Stellar, a new premium streaming platform designed specifically for live performances.

Ticket holders will be able to stream the event on any computer browser (laptop or desktop), mobile web, the Stellar Android or iOS app, or on TV via the Stellar app on Apple TV, Fire TV and Roku.

THE FINAL PERSHING LECTURE SERIES EVENT of 2020, staged by the WWI Museum in Kansas City will take place online on Tuesday, December 15 at 6:30 p.m. When the doughboys sailed back to the U.S. from Europe in 1919, they returned to a country riven by racial, political and economic tensions. The Bolshevik Revolution, a sputtering economy and the rising expectations of African Americans and workers created a combustible environment that sparked protests and riots across the nation. Dr. Shawn Faulkner will deliver a virtual lecture that examines the roots of the social conflicts that roiled the United States in 1919 and 1920, as well as an examination of the causes and course of the Red Scare.

Today, Sunday, December 6, the Museum and Memorial welcomes Grammy-award winning KC Chorale for a socially-distanced concert on the Southeast Lawn. The 40-minute outdoor concert includes carols along with a few art song pieces that address the connection to a hundred years ago in both the global pandemic and the hope of Christmas Truce. On Wednesday December 9 at noon, the Museum and Memorial will host Gary Lewis for an online discussion about the French film Joyeux Noël that recreates the events of the 1914 Christmas Truce, a historic holiday moment celebrating peace in a time of war.

DUBAI 92’S CHRISTMAS CRACKER It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas and what’s more festive than a real nostalgic singalong with the Dubai 92 Christmas cracker. Enjoy a night of Christmas cheer featuring two of the UK’s top personalities from the early nighties: Natasha Hamilton, from Atomic Kitten and Gareth Gates sing their hits as well as Christmas Classics such as White Christmas; Let It Snow; Last Christmas and all the fan favorites. December 12, 2020 at Dubai Opera in Dubai, UAE.

JOHN CLEESE Don’t miss the “One and Only” John Cleese as he examines the dysfunctional world we live in. John is a legendary comedic actor best known for: Monty Python’s Flying Circus; Fawlty Towers; A Fish Called Wanda and the recent British comedy series Hold The Sunset, which aired in America on PBS. “The world’s funniest man” first made his mark as a member of the legendary Monty Python troupe in the 1960s and has gone on to write, produce, direct and star in some of the greatest comedic hits of the last forty years, even receiving an Oscar nomination for best screenplay for A Fish Called Wanda.

He performs at Dubai Opera in Dubai, UAE on December 16, 2020.

THE BITTEN PEACH The UK’s only Pan-Asian cabaret collective is made up of performers of Asian descent working in a variety of nightlife performance genres, including drag, burlesque, dance, comedy, music, and circus.

Founded at the start of 2019 The Bitten Peach has been dedicated to increasing and diversifying Asian representation on the drag and cabaret scene.

December 15 at The Bridge Theatre in London.

STREAMING: HANDEL'S MESSIAH takes place Thursday, December 17. Join the Royal Albert Hall presentation us for an exclusive online stream of the Royal Choral Society's annual performance of Messiah, performed at the Hall every year since 1872.

A video on demand performance.

DID YOU KNOW THAT the Royal Albert Hall in London once hosted a séance, and flooded the auditorium with 56,000 litres of water for an opera concert; Thousand gallon water tanks house the wet stuff when the stage needs to be flooded for such shows as Madame Butterfly.

Criminals, as well as musicians and politicians, have graced the Hall’s stage – from Arctic Monkeys to Muhammad Ali, BBC Proms to Beyoncé, Cirque du Soleil to Winston Churchill, and Albert Einstein to Ed Sheeran.

Boxing Brothers, identical twins Reggie, Ronnie and Charlie Kray all took to the ring in the middle of the Albert Hall in separate bouts on December 11, 1951. Reggie beat Clapham's Bobby Manito. No such luck for the other two: Charlie lost and Ronnie was disqualified for (literally) using his head.

According to an article by Th Londinist the Krays were the only two people to perform at the Albert Hall AND be imprisoned at the Tower of London.

Ronnie was eventually diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. Along with his hot headed brother they owned nightclubs and mixed with mob bosses and royalty. They hobnobbed with Frank Sinatra, George Raft, Judy Garland, and Diana Dors. They even hired Eric Clapton to play at one of their clubs, according to Boxing Noir.

On May 8, 1968, the Krays were arrested. They denied the many charges against them.

Less than a year later, after deliberating for six hours and 55 minutes at the Old Bailey, a jury found the Krays guilty of murder on March 4, 1969, and they were sentenced to life in Parkhurst Prison. Reggie was convicted of murdering Jack “The Hat” McVitie, himself a notorious English criminal, in 1967. When his gun jammed, he stabbed McVitie repeatedly in the face, chest and stomach with a carving knife while his brother held him down. Ronnie was convicted in the shooting death of George Cornell, a member of a rival gang, at the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel on March 9, 1966. Cornell made the mistake of calling Ronnie a “fat poof.”

A decade after he began serving his life sentence, Ronnie was transferred from Parkhurst to Broadmore Hospital, a high-security psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane at Crowthorne in Berkshire, England. He was described at the time “as a near moron in good physical condition but mentally dull. There are occasional glimpses in his behavior of a latent violence.”

Ronnie Kray died in prison in 1995 of a heart attack at 61. Reggie died in 2000, from bladder cancer at the age of 66, after 31 years in jail.

If you happen to be in London there are covid-19, socially distanced Albert Hall tours.

OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

HELP INDEPENDENT TRACKS SUCCEED ACT a bipartisan bill that would allow musicians, technicians and producers to deduct 100 percent of recording production expenses in the year they are incurred, rather than in later years has been introduced by . Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Marsha Blackburn (R–Tenn.). Companion legislation was introduced in the House by Representatives Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) and Ron Estes (R-Kan.). “Because most large, public gatherings have been prohibited since the pandemic began, musicians and music producers have been among the hardest hit by the coronavirus,” said Senator Feinstein. “Our bill would provide relief by allowing independent musicians, technicians and producers to deduct their production expenses in the same year they occur, rather than forcing them to spread those deductions out over several years. This is in line with how expenses are treated for film, television and theater productions, and it makes sense to create parity for music productions.”

“Singers and songwriters lift our spirits and now need our help to get past the pandemic,” said Senator Blackburn. “These artists are the lifeblood of Nashville’s creative community. This bipartisan legislation will provide additional tax deductions to ease the burden facing our creative community by allowing our independent artists to fully deduct the cost of producing their music.”

The bill would allow up to $150,000 in recording production expenses to be deducted in the year they are incurred, rather than in later years.

According to the Copyright Alliance survey in June, 88 percent of creators had lost income due to the coronavirus pandemic, which was more than double the national average for other industries. Approximately half of the respondents had lost 90 percent or more of their income.

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FINAL OVATION

ABBY DALTON an Emmy-nominated actress born in Las Vegas, Nevada died Monday, November 23, 2020 in Los Angeles after battling "a long illness." She was 88 years old.

Dalton got her start acting in the B-movies of Roger Corman, including Rock All Night in 1957. In 1959, she began a starring role on the TV-Series Hennesey, for which she was nominated for an Emmy. She starred as Joey Bishop’s wife from 1962 until 1965 on The Joey Bishop Show. Dalton may be best known for her role as winemaker Julia Cumson on the prime time soap opera Falcon Crest in the 1980s.

Dalton is survived by her husband Jack D. Smith and her children Matthew, actress Kathleen Kinmont and John, as well as her grandchildren and great grandson.

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