Emil Stern

Emil Stern is a screenwriter based in Los Angeles, currently working on a book about his family, Displaced Persons.

A bitterly funny roman à clef about a Reform temple and 1930s Hollywood is more Sunset Boulevard than Wilshire Boulevard.

Hollywood's founding is a tale of shutfus, broiges, and mother's chicken soup.

Theodor Adorno said there could be no poetry after Auschwitz, but he didn’t say anything about buddy movies.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures seems to have had one goal for its exhibit about the Jews who created Hollywood: make the angry letters stop.

Have you seen the one about the Hasidic jewelers and the Albanian goons?