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...stranded in the desert; Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, as two brothers whose greed is matched only by their stupidity, get trapped--in their Ford Bronco--atop an airport radar tower; a cow flies; Cuba Gooding Jr. hijacks a bus full of Lucille Ball look-alikes; and a nice Jewish couple played by Jon Lovitz and Kathy Najimy steal Hitler's car from a neo-Nazi museum. "We have, I think, one of the funniest movies in the world," says Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing. "But we have a marketing challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Race | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...example, Kathy Bates selling squirrels by the roadside and exacting a terrible revenge on non-buyers. Then there's the Barbie Museum. That would be a roadside attraction devoted not to the immortal doll but to the vicious Nazi Klaus Barbie. Not to worry, though, the befuddled Jewish family (with Jon Lovitz as its addled patriarch and Kathy Najimy his bemused wife) makes its escape in style--in Hitler's onetime touring car. Best of all, there's Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Pollini, a good-natured Italian immigrant struggling hilariously with his nonnative language and with the narcolepsy that overtakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Good Old-Fashioned Lunacy | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...With the strategy of a top manager Sturm artfully mixes Jewish mythology with the mythology of baseball as a way of exploring the myth of America. It's a big subject, and not an easy one. You can tell when the baseball-as-America metaphor gets used as an easy trope by a literal player-hater. But "The Golem's Mighty Swing," has the beauty, universality, thoughtfulness, and sweep of baseball at its best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Ballpark | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

Summer will be one week shorter than normal for this fall’s incoming first-year class, the result of an effort by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to minimize the year’s conflict between the academic calendar and the Jewish New Year’s holiday of Rosh Hashanah...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rosh Hashanah Forces Early Start to Year | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

Many observant Jewish students do not attend classes during at least the first day of Rosh Hashanah...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rosh Hashanah Forces Early Start to Year | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

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