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...officer, Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), is a nastily smooth operator: oozing charm like pus, with a courtly tone and a preening self-regard. Known as the Jew Hunter, he calls himself a detective, trying to stop a war crime. Among his suspects are a French Jewess, Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), who has escaped Landa's grasp and now runs a movie theater in Paris; and Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), a leading lady of German cinema who is secretly in league with British intelligence. Many Tarantino movies are female revenge fantasies, in which strong women plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inglourious Basterds: Stalking History and Hitler | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...ended not in a bunker below the Reich Chancellory in Berlin, with no outsiders watching, but in a public area made for mass entertainment: a Paris movie theater. And that the Jews, Hitler's special victims, might have had a crucial hand in his defeat - indeed, that a French Jewess could have ignited her own holocaust of the Führer and his top aides with the words: "My name is Shoshanna Dreyfus. And this is the face of Jewish vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inglourious Basterds: Tarantino and the Jews Defeat Hitler! | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...only proven false by later investigation, but was totally unwarranted in the first place. Nor was Valentine’s sentence—a ten-day jail sentence and a mandate to remove her headscarf outside of the courtroom—appropriate. Asking a Muslim woman or an Orthodox Jewess to remove her headscarf in public is like asking her to disrobe or to expose herself. In an appalling misuse of the judicial system’s power, Valentine was asked to do so by a judge and police officers who have sworn to uphold the law to the best...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: The Fuss About Covering Up | 2/1/2009 | See Source »

...article on the various types of Jewess, featuring big-nosed, dark-skinned, nerdy, hairy and zaftig. Which is your favorite...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions For Joshua Neuman | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...harrowing choice. When Esther, the wife of the Persian King Xerxes, learns of a plot to kill all the Jews in the kingdom, she has a decision to make: To try to save her people, should she risk her life by revealing to the king that she is a Jewess? Or should she remain silent, deny her faith and preserve her wifely prestige and power? After much soul searching, Esther chooses faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIDDY MAKES PERFECT | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

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