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...original movie, with Charles Grodin as the heartbreaker (here called Lenny), Jeannie Berlin as Lila and Cybill Shepherd as the adored Kelly, was a more direct parable of ambition for mobility - upward mobility. Lenny and Lila were identifiably Jewish, including the crushed glass at the wedding and the honeymoon at a Miami Beach hotel. Lila's worst crimes are eating candy bars in bed and whining, which is understandable, considering that her husband has abandoned her three days into their marriage. Kelly is the blond shiksa dreamgirl (closer to the remake's Lila than to the fair-haired Miranda), whose...
...irritates me a tiny bit is that he managed to be sexy. How can you be playing this weird, overweight guy in galoshes who's socially inept and somehow be a movie star as you're doing it?" It takes an actor who excels at contradiction--a Jewish anti-Semite, a do-gooder drug addict--to pull off the hunky-freak trick. It also helps if he is, in real life, a bit of an oddball...
...difficulty explaining why, exactly, his assertion wasn’t true. “For one thing, Jews aren’t part of some kind of centralized organization,” I said. “We don’t all have some kind of Jewish leader who tells us what to do, so I don’t think we would ever do anything as ‘all the Jews’ together.” I went on to explain that Jews are not unified by any one ethnicity, language, or even one faith, necessarily...
...Until a few years ago... when under new management, a Jewish owner from Brooklyn, a Latino general manager from Queens, an African-American manager from Brooklyn-ethnic New York guys, outer-borough guys like me-the Mets began to hire some wonderful talent, and a sizzling crop of younger players suddenly materialized from the farm system. I found myself sucked into baseball fandom of the purest, most banal sort. I learned to love winning. I even expected them to win. Our playoff loss in 2006 to the St. Louis Cardinals was a fluke. Surely we would win this year...
...years was forced. But according to the rules of the Restitution Committee, only sales by individuals under duress made after the Nazis occupied the Netherlands in May 1940 are unquestionably considered involuntary. For dealers, the bar is higher, all the more so because they themselves often bought from other Jewish people desperate to flee. It is the original owners who are entitled to the disputed works, which is up to the Committee to determine...