Anne Frank's diary is unforgettable not just because of its obvious historical significance but because Anne is so normal; she's boy crazy (let's be honest, she would've totally been a Belieber), irreverent and so relatable that Angela Chase once got in trouble for calling her "lucky" because she was stuck inside all…
Would-be Belieber Anne Frank has been getting attention for all the wrong reasons lately. One suburban Detroit mom could have it so she gets no attention at all because of her "female genitalia."
Bet you did Nazi this coming! Publicists/the fates diced and soaked locally-sourced ingredients for a gazpacho of Internet greatness when Justin Bieber stopped by Amsterdam's Anne Frank House on his European tour. He wrote in the museum guestbook:
If you're ready to cry into your evening bowl of ice cream bon bons, grab all the Kleenex ever made, and get into this Anti-Defamation League video. It imagines a world that still has Martin Luther King, Anne Frank, Matthew Shepard, and many other wonderful souls because it's a world without hate crimes. I'm…
There's been some chatter in the news lately about the Mormon church's bizarre habit of baptizing non-Mormons who have died. They've done it on all kinds of famous deceased people—Elvis, Shakespeare, and even Jesus Christ himself. This past weekend they baptized Anne Frank, WWII diarist and victim of the Holocaust.…
Next year the British publisher of Anne Frank's diary will release a diary by Helga Weiss, one of the few children from the Czech ghetto of Terezin who survived Auschwitz. Weiss, who grew up to be an internationally known artist, was confronted by Josef Mengele in the camps, but managed to save herself and her mother…
A fantasy of Jewish militarized revenge — like Inglourious Basterds! Sexing up a Holocaust victim who died at 15 — like everything else everywhere! The question is, are you Team Anne or Team Hitler?
Seven of Anne Frank's surviving classmates from Amsterdam's Jewish Lyceum contributed to Theo Coster's By The Classmates of Anne Frank, which has already been published in Dutch and will now make the rounds at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
You know the problem with the Diary of Anne Frank? Not enough sex scenes. Well, luckily, that's about to change:
• Hunting enthusiast Sarah Palin continues to play to her Real American base: she will be giving the keynote speech at the upcoming annual NRA meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. •
"As the girls who loved Anne Frank grew up, they became women who loved Miep Gies, and who hoped that they would do what she did, if ever they were asked to." [Washington Post]
• NBA Commissioner David Stern says in the next decade women may join the NBA: "I don't want to get into all kinds of arguments with players and coaches about the likelihood, but I really think it's a good possibility."
• Since us single folk are missing out on all those hilariously uncomfortable-looking sex positions featured each month in Cosmo, here's a helpful chart of sex positions for the lonely. We're digging the Abe Lincoln. •
11 saplings from the chestnut tree Anne Frank could see from her attic window have been planted around the world at "sites dedicated to fighting intolerance " - including Little Rock Central High School, famously integrated in 1957. [NYT]
Francine Prose, on Anne Frank: The Book, the Life and the Afterlife: " Teenaged girls are the most maligned, undervalued portion of the population, as though they're all gossip girls. They can be very smart and attuned to the world." [WSJ]
The news that David Mamet will be helming the new Anne Frank movie has baffled and intrigued cinephiles across the land. Now, True/Slant presents us with the first, leaked pages of the odd coupling! [True/Slant]
David Mamet, Disney and Anne Frank are things that shouldn't be in the same sentence, let alone movie. But the latest, mouse-funded version of the Diary of a Young Girl is written and helmed by the profanity-lovin' playwright. [Variety]
• A group of sex workers in India have decided to take their safety into their own hands and learn karate to protect themselves. "I am fully confident now that I can escape," said one martial arts student. •
Although the horse chestnut tree that marked the seasons for Anne Frank while her family hid in Amsterdam is dying, ten of its saplings may be brought to America for planting. [NYT]
• Anne Frank's last surviving "helper," Miep Gies, turns 100 this Sunday. She humbly claims that she has received far more attention than she deserves, and "so many others have done the same." •
• In her book My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank Jacqueline Van Maarsen, Anne Frank's best friend, claims that the noted diarist and Holocaust victim was an extroverted girl who made bossy demands on their friendship. • The Iranian government will set up marriage bureaus to help Iranians find suitable husbands and…
We always agreed with Angela Chase on My So-Called Life when she described Anne Frank as "lucky." Angela's English teacher asks her, "How could Anne Frank be lucky?" and Angela responds, "'Cause she was stuck in an attic for three years with this guy she really liked." That's the part of Anne Frank that people should be…
Happy Holocaust Awareness Week, everyone. (It's also Eating Disorder Awareness week, but, uh yeah, I'm going to pass on making a connection between the two.) As the token grandchild-of-Holocaust survivors, I call attention to these Anne Frank-related news stories: Hillel Colorado commissioned a poster bearing the copy…
When we caught wind of the news of The Diary of Anne Frank being turned into a musical we couldn't help channel Amy Winehouse's most famous lyric, "No, no, no." Anne Frank: The Musical will be produced by a Spanish theatre company in Madrid next month, with the blessing of the The Anne Frank Foundation, no less. The Anne …
Tomorrow's Christmas, or, as I knew it throughout my childhood, that day when I'm bored and nothing is open. I'm 100% Heeb, and my mother was so anti-Christmas that we didn't even do the stereotypical Jew things like eat Chinese food and go to the movies. Doing those things would be a tacit acknowledgment that…
The NY Times asks the big questions about menstrual periods today: Do we need them? What long-term effects do birth control methods have on the female body? How does Anne Frank's plight against the Nazis impact the way in which we bleed?
