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...examination of the past, present and potential futures of American Jews--one of the most thorough journalistic surveys of American Jewish life ever published. Actors who wound up in Hollywood got camouflage names whether they wanted them or not. While pioneer moviemakers like Harry Cohn, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer and Adolph Zukor retained Jewish-sounding names, they were "determined to avoid any hint of Jewishness in the films they created." Some notables avoided this identification so assiduously they seemed downright anti-Semitic. Walter Lippmann did so, refusing to become a member of (or even give a lecture...
...They'd get me behind desks and behind barrels and throw tables in front of me to hide my growing tummy." Dancer Eleanor Powell runs into a friend, a film cutter at MGM, and lunches with him at the studio commissary. That afternoon she is lectured by Louis B. Mayer: "My dear child, you are going to be a star . . . I would rather you weren't seen with any of the lower echelon of employees." Harry Cohn, the caliph of Columbia Pictures, learns that Choreographer Jack Cole has pronounced a script for Ann Miller garbage. Cohn agrees, but demands, "What...
...This is a cooperative effort,” said HUDS Executive Director Ted A. Mayer last October. “We don’t want people to get sick...
...Mayer] would have on a personal basis contacted me or Steve when he was alive and discussed that this X-ray had been falsely vetted, then maybe other pathways would have emerged,” Shearer said...
...Mayer, who is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, did not return requests for comment yesterday. A spokesperson for Dana-Farber said that Mayer is not commenting on the allegations...