Word: schlemieled
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Arquette, in great shape these days, radiates the strain of a desperate coquette. Anderson, with all the charisma of the guys you knew back in shop class, is an ideal stud-schlemiel. But this is Lithgow's spotlight. His shambling gait and open shirt give him the look of Disney's Brer Bear. But Mills is a slyer oaf, muttering obscenities and worn wisdom, capable of evil . and love; Lithgow's dilapidated face tells you both are curses. He knows that noir is a chase with death at the end, and he makes it a hell of a ride...
...achy-breaky pain in her reading of Play the Music for Me. On the Secret Garden album, Daisy Eagan, the show's child star, is forever 11, frozen in innocence. Faith Prince's comic chirps and sniffles come across magnificently on Guys and Dolls, as does the schlemiel's charisma of Nathan Lane in his Sue Me duet with Prince...
Most important, Allen has inserted his own screen character, the wise schlemiel, into the proceedings, this time as a clerk recruited by a variety of vigilante bands, each with a theory about how to catch the night stalker. The clerk supplies what expressionism always lacked -- jokes. And his increasingly tense situation provides a sharp commentary on the fecklessness of ideological debate when a crisis is at hand...
...trial lawyers, and his insights remain essential for understanding the American judicial process. But Dershowitz has a larger subject in mind: his ego. It would have been better to leave the appraisal to others. The man who does his own public relations has more than chutzpah; he has a schlemiel for a client...
Myself, I knew I was Jewish, but was not sure what made me so. The things that I called Jewish culture were universally embraced--Johnny Carson says "klutz" and "schlemiel," bagels are eaten everywhere, and Woody Allen is loved by Jews and non-Jews alike--so how did they make me Jewish? I knew I did not want to marry someone who wasn't Jewish, but I could not reconcile that with my commitment to interethnic tolerance and understanding. And if it were only cultural and family ties that made me Jewish, why not marry someone of another background...