From Olivier to Andoh: not as far as you might think “As a child, guided in my interest by my history teaching mother, I fell upon the story of Richard…
It is about Rachel Benjamin (Jill Winternitz) a Canadian Jewish school teacher from Toronto who has ambitions to be a screenwriter. She has been asked to apologise at school after offence was taken regarding her remarks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Before she has to make a decision she goes on a screenwriting course called The Retreat.
Sidney Poitier in Joe McCarthy’s America “All this time I thought I was finding it hard to get work because I was Black, now I learn it was because someone…