The Daily Collegian
Film to celebrate ambassador
By Allegra O'Neill
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The Penn State Israeli Alliance
will honor the anniversary of the
death of former Israeli
Ambassador to the United States
and former Israeli Prime Minister
Y'itzhak Rabin tonight with film
director Dan Katzir.
The alliance will host the direc
tor for a lecture and a showing of
his film ' Out for Love...Be Back
Later" at 7 p.m. in 102 Thomas
Building.
The alliance is a student organ
ization with the goal of promoting
Israeli society, culture, diversity
and history, alliance president
Shai Shtub said.
Rabin was an Israeli ambassa
dor to the United States before he
moved back to Israel and became
involved in the Israel Labor Party,
according to his official website.
Rabin was elected Prime
Minister in 1074 and 1092 and was
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By: Ula llnytzky
NEW YORK
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Shtub (graduate-industrial
engineering) said the alliance
chose Katzir for the event
because of his film’s notoriety it
won 13 international awards.
"Prime Minister Rabin was a
brave man who actually managed
to make a historic peace treaty
with Jordan," Shtub said.
"Despite the grounds of the movie
being about the director, it focuses
on just a regular guy trying to find
normalitv and love in a war-tom
country."
Katzir will hold a lecture about
his life in Israel and his work with
the movie. Shtub said.
Hillel President Michal Bems
said her group supports Israel,
and the Penn State Israel
Alliance.
Berns said her organization is
aware of the film event and is
helping to spread awareness of it
to other students on campus.
Sara Glassman said she is par-
The sale includes 80 photo
graphs, more than a dozen con
temporary works and 24 cartoons.
Among them are a photograph
of comedian Dan Aykroyd in a
conehead costume with a bunny
suited Anderson, a photo of the
magazine's 1953 debut cover of
Monroe, an early 1960 s shot of sex
kitten Brigitte Bardot and three
Alberto Vargas pinup girl water
color and pencil illustration
boards. The auction's top draw is
expected to be an iconic, sexually
charged oil of a scarlet-lipstick
mouth by pop artist Tom
Wesselmann. Portraits of Duke
Kllington and Dennis Hopper and
a Herb Ritts photo of Elle
Macpherson are also for sale.
"It's the tip of the iceberg." said
Aaron Baker, curator of the
Playboy Art Collection for the last
eight years. Chicago-based
Playboy houses an archive of 5,000
contemporary artworks and more
ilian 20 million photographs in a
storage building in the city.
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Since a lot of these are work
products " said Cathy Elkies.
('hristie's head of private and cor
porate collections, "there’s a link
between the collection and the
ethos of the publication itself."
Nearly all the items in the sale
have appeared in the publication,
a cultui al icon that helped liberate
American sexual mores.
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ticularly excited to see the film
after studying abroad in Tel Aviv
last semester. Glassman (senior
sociology and international stud
ies) said she chose to study there
because she was comfortable in
Tel Aviv.
“What I love about Israeli cul
ture is the openness of the peo
ple,” Glassman said. “I love how
anyone will invite you into their
home and be there for you.”
Glassman said she was able to
be one of the first people to tour
through the opening of the muse
um for Rabin in Tel Aviv and was
even able to meet Rabin's daugh
ter. The event was one of the most
moving experiences she got to
experience, she said. Glassman
said she heard about the film in
one of her Hebrew classes.
"I have never seen the movie
and cannot wait to meet the direc
tor,” she said.
Playboy to auction art
Given Hefner's early back
ground as an amateur cartoonist,
Elkies said, his connection to art
has always been strong.
Among the standout fine art
pieces is Dali's "Playmate,” a 1966
watercolor of a reclining nude that
until recently hung over a mantel
in Hefner’s bedroom at the
Playboy Mansion. It's estimated
to bring $lOO,OOO to $150,000. It
was one of 11 works chosen for
"The Playmate as Fine Art" picto
rial for the magazine's January
-1967 Playmate review issue that
asked artists to create Playmate
inspired art.
"I'm a fan of Dali's and happy to
be sharing it." Hefner said, smil
ing. "It's a reclining nude, so that
made it easy to personally identify
with it"
The star of the auction.
Wesselmann's "Mouth No. 8,"
depicts the artist's iconic theme of
a woman's ODen, lipsticked mouth.
The 1966 work is estimated to
bring $2 million to $3 million.
"It's a i -eat example of his
work from his best period." Baker
said.
Some fun items include a num
ber of layout boards, marked up
by Playboy's art directors. Some
even contain their penciled rat
ings of the pinups, for example,
"88 out of 100," Elkies said.
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To e-mail reporter: aposols@psu.edu
The Penn State Israeli Alliance
will show the film “Out for Love ...
Be Back Later" tonight.
If you go
What Film and lecture
When: 7 tonight
Where: 102 Thomas
Details: Director Dan Katzir is
showing his film and discussing
his life in Israel
photograph of Playmate of the
Year Stacy Sanchez draped in
white fabric in the shape of
Playboy's bunny logo is initialed
by Heftier and contains editorial
comments like "move leg to this
position” and "missing eye shad
ow."
The boards "really take you
behind the scenes and show the
editorial process." Baker said.
The sale has a number of
Monroe images, including a pho
tograph that was used for the
cover of Playboy's December 1953
premiere issue. The magazine
purchased it from United Press,
shot during a parade of Monroe
riding on the back of a car. Playboy
swapped out the background of a
crowd for its own logo.
It shows Monroe with her arm
raised almost as if she was waving
to the readers, inviting them into
the pages of the book of these
incredible nude shots of her that
they had never seen before."
Baker said.
“You know, it becomes a piece of
art because it appears on the
cover of Playboy." Hefner noted.
“One of the things that set
Playboy apart from the very
beginning was not simply the
pretty ladies and the very good lit
erature, but the fact that we were
winning art awards in the very
first year.”
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Jacksons’
kids recall
pop star
CHICAGO Michael
Jackson's children and mother
said on Monday’s episode of
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” that
they’re still learning to cope with
his death a year and a half after
the pop star overdosed on a
powerful anesthetic.
Jackson’s oldest children, 13-
year-old Prince and 12-year-old
Paris, said they are adjusting
well to private school, although
their younger brother. Blanket,
8, is still home-schooled. The
children have been living with
grandmother Katherine
Jackson, who is their guardian,
since their father's death in
June 2009.
In the pre-taped interview.
Katherine Jackson said Blanket,
whose given name is Prince
Michael Jackson 11. is shv but
now wants to attend school next
year, when he'll be in fourth
grade.
The children were taped in
the Jackson's back yard with
several cousins and spoke about
their memories of their father.
Prince, whose birth name is
Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., said
when the family lived in Bahrain,
he and his father often walked
the beach early in the morning
drinking Coca Cola and eating
Skittles or Snickers. Paris said
he took her to art museums and
was "the best cook ever."
Katherine Jackson said she
wants to give the children as
normal a childhood as possible,
and is more lenient than her son
was including when he made
the children wear veils in public.
Paris said the veils weren't
always comfortable but that they
wore them "because then when
we did go out without our dad
nobody would really recognize
us." and she appreciated that he
was trying to protect them.
"I kind of felt like no one
understands what a good father
he was," Paris said.
Katherine Jackson also told
Winfrey that she believes her
son was addicted to plastic sur
gery; and once even asked his
surgeon to pretend that he'd
operated on Jackson's nose.
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