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...Joys of Yiddish, Rosten...
...Joys of Yiddish, Rosten...
Along the journey to nowhere, Sellers displays a few glimmers of the comic genius that once made him seem like a chip off the old Chaplin, notably in a hilarious Spanish-Yiddish-English brouhaha involving his mother and eleven Mexican whiplash-injury clients. But most of the time, the movie reduces him to elephantine gestures and TV-sized jokes. As he runs into the fadeout, a passing hippie asks him where he is going. "I don't know," Sellers answers. "There must be someplace." The line sums up both this meandering movie and the flickering career of a gifted...
...understanding of how one can be victimized by a lack of power, says Shanker, stems from his days as a Yiddish-speaking boy in a non-Jewish neighborhood of Queens, where other kids called him a "Christ-killer." Once they even tied a rope around his neck and tried to hang him. At the University of Illinois, he bicycled six miles daily to the campus because, he claims, closer quarters were all "listed for WASPS, right there in the official university housing bureau." Looking back, it seems almost inevitable that he became a political activist. As chairman of the Socialist...
...like this." As Nick Arnstein, Fanny's hard-luck gambler husband, Omar Sharif, of all people, is only required to stand and listen with large liquid eyes. The rest of the cast is simply a Jewish chorus of ooze and ahs mimicking Yiddish locution by ending declarative sentences with a question mark. ("He has polish on his nails...