By Maria Esteves - June 20, 2015 "Examines the history, influence and ethos of the fading Sullivan County resort with an eye and ear for the hotel's legacy that transcends East Coast American Judaism." - Bruce Bennett, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Kutsher’s is "celebrated in an elegiac 2012 documentary, Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort, which is being updated in December with a final section chronicling the hotel’s demolition to make way for a y...

By Maria Esteves – September 11, 2014 A private memorial service for the legendary American icon JOAN RIVERS (Joan Alexandra Molinsky) was held at Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Avenue, New York, Sunday, September 7, 2014, 11:00 AM. Actress, comedienne, writer, producer, and television host Rivers passed away during New York Fashion Week, Thursday, September 4th. Opening prayers were recited by Senior Rabbi Joshua Davidson in the beautiful sanctuary decorated with white gardenias where Rivers wa...

  When the center of your film is a person whose celebrated motor mouth is both the source of her fame and, sometimes, of her undoing, you definitely have a film that is about the marvels of talk, talk and more talk. That is certainly the case with the popular documentary JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK, a disarmingly intimate portrait of the American comic legend. The documentary duo of Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg were on-stage guests at the special screening of the film at the Jacob...

  Joan Rivers, the queen of comedy who has been perfecting her craft in a career that spans over five decades, is as unlikely a personality as one would expect to find in the uber-indie surroundings of Park City. However, the comedienne, who is as well known for her addiction to plastic surgery as she is for her classic comedy ("can we talk?" being her signature catchphrase) is here at the Sundance Film Festival for the world premiere of the documentary JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF...