Tarnopol

In his novel “My Life as a Man,” the character Peter Tarnopol, himself a novelist, ascribes his terror at the prospect of getting remarried to the suggestion of a judge at an alimony ruling that he “switch” to writing films.

In My Life as a Man, the hero Peter Tarnopol lives in a brownstone on Twelfth Street between Fifth and Sixth near the New School… I too had lived briefly in a brownstone on that block.

But if your enjoyment of reality TV's most celebrated beach house party animals hinged on all the drunken humiliation, girl fights and "come at me, bro" set-tos, writer-director Paul Tarnopol's energetically dumb exercise in blood-drenched slaughter at the hands of a masked killer might test your pop culture taste for others' ill will.

Richard Landes said that his father died on Aug. 17 in Haverford, Pa., where he lived, and that his health had failed since his wife, the former Sonia Tarnopol, died in April.

He began to study the Bible, and philosophical works in Hebrew, like those of Maimonides; his desire for knowledge being fostered under Michael Perl of Tarnopol, the first Jewish reformer in Galicia.