Word: mensches
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...home compost bin for a chef from Spago and work on a "green" mansion large enough to dry-dock an aircraft carrier. And they cap off each episode by sitting down to cocktails or dinner and telling one another how awesome they are. ("Why are you such a mensch?" Grenier asks a pal.) In Alter Eco, environmentalism exists not to save the world but to ennoble people who are richer, thinner and cooler than you will ever...
Thirty years later, a filmmaker asked Berger's father what he thought of McKay. As McKay would have, Dr. Benjamin Berger found just the right word--in this case, the Yiddish term for a man of character. Said Berger: "[Jim McKay] is a mensch...
...participants. A Mighty Heart is a more straightforward docudrama, following the horrific tick-tock of Mariane's ordeal. As played by Jolie, she is a demanding, nails-tough woman, while Futterman's Danny is more easy-going but no less tenacious at his job - a good reporter, and a mensch...
...chronically scruffy auteur may play the game tonight and get all tuxed up. But he's still a blue-collar kid from Flint, Michigan - the car town that became a poor town when GM closed many of its plants. A classic entertainer and a professional mensch, he knows how to couch a daunting issue in human terms. In Sicko, as he said at a Cannes press conference today, the larger questions are: "Who are we? What has become of us? Where is our soul...
...Funny, He Never Seemed Sober," your Aug. 21 People item about Robin Williams falling off the wagon: It's very poor sportsmanship to kick a man when he's down. Williams was mensch enough to go public with his drinking problem instead of hiding it as 99% of celebrities do until it graces the front page of the tabloids. I see his admission as a strength, not a weakness. SANDE ANFANG Half Moon Bay, Calif...