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| Posted by: Roman 05:05 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
| In reply to: re: What?.... - MockingbirdGirl 03:05 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
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| I’m in agreement with you here. I can’t believe, with all the talented Jewish actresses/comediennes in New York, they came up with Jane Lynch. I mean, Jackie Hoffman, if she could contain the urge to mug, would have been divine. It still bugs me that Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty were hired to play Italian Catholics (they were never convincing, as such). Why the creators chose not to make the characters Jewish, I’ll never know. Estelle Getty’s tenor and rhythm always reminded me of me Aunt Rhoda, who spoke fluent Yiddish. But so does Nancy Walker as Aida Morgenstern, Rhoda’s mother. Nancy wasn’t Jewish, but she sure was convincing — at least in her earlier appearances. |
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| Are directors supposed to ask if an actor is Jewish? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 02:48 am EDT 10/07/21 | |
| In reply to: re: What?.... - Roman 05:05 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
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| Or do they just guess by stereotypical mannerisms? | |
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| No, not really - though certain cultural references sometimes are shared in conversation - like "what did you do over Christmas?" "Oh, you mean Chanukah, sorry, me too!" | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 11:38 am EDT 10/07/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:36 am EDT 10/07/21 | |
| In reply to: Are directors supposed to ask if an actor is Jewish? - KingSpeed 02:48 am EDT 10/07/21 | |
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| Sometimes last names are a hint, though I think they might go astray with Whoopi Goldberg! | |
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| re: No, not really - though certain cultural references sometimes are shared in conversation - like "what did you do over Christmas?" "Oh, you mean Chanukah, sorry, me too!" | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 04:41 pm EDT 10/12/21 | |
| In reply to: No, not really - though certain cultural references sometimes are shared in conversation - like "what did you do over Christmas?" "Oh, you mean Chanukah, sorry, me too!" - PlayWiz 11:36 am EDT 10/07/21 | |
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| None of a director's business what an actor did over Christmas? Are you really suggesting that only people who celebrate Hanukkah can play Jewish characters? | |
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| re: No, not really - though certain cultural references sometimes are shared in conversation - like "what did you do over Christmas?" "Oh, you mean Chanukah, sorry, me too!" | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 05:15 pm EDT 10/12/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:06 pm EDT 10/12/21 | |
| In reply to: re: No, not really - though certain cultural references sometimes are shared in conversation - like "what did you do over Christmas?" "Oh, you mean Chanukah, sorry, me too!" - KingSpeed 04:41 pm EDT 10/12/21 | |
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| Not at all. Just in conversation one can sometimes glean things about a person -- their significant other, what holiday is appropriate to wish them, any children, age, etc. which may, may, factor at some point into a casting situation, possibly for a future show. | |
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| re: No, not really - though certain cultural references sometimes are shared in conversation - like "what did you do over Christmas?" "Oh, you mean Chanukah, sorry, me too!" | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:13 pm EDT 10/07/21 | |
| In reply to: No, not really - though certain cultural references sometimes are shared in conversation - like "what did you do over Christmas?" "Oh, you mean Chanukah, sorry, me too!" - PlayWiz 11:36 am EDT 10/07/21 | |
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| This is really becoming a hateful conversation. | |
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| re: No, not really | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 12:40 pm EDT 10/07/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 12:38 pm EDT 10/07/21 | |
| In reply to: re: No, not really - though certain cultural references sometimes are shared in conversation - like "what did you do over Christmas?" "Oh, you mean Chanukah, sorry, me too!" - Chromolume 12:13 pm EDT 10/07/21 | |
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| No hateful intention. Just observation - the same way people try to find out your age by asking when you graduated from school or, in a more roundabout way, did you go to such school with so and so (whose age they may know). | |
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| re: What?.... | |
| Posted by: showtunesoprano 05:21 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
| In reply to: re: What?.... - Roman 05:05 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
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| If you saw the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof, you know that Jackie Hoffman can ABSOLUTELY contain the urge to mug. | |
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| re: What?.... | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:39 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
| In reply to: re: What?.... - showtunesoprano 05:21 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
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| Jackie Hoffman was also terrific, restrained and very much in character in the miniseries "Feud" about Bette Davis and Joan Crawford making "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" | |
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| Tale of Hoffman | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 11:00 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
| In reply to: re: What?.... - PlayWiz 05:39 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
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| Jackie Hoffman tweeted: “So the director of the new 'Funny Girl' saw me play Yente in Yiddish 'Fiddler' and didn’t cast me as the Jewish mother or nosy neighbor.” |
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| re: Tale of Hoffman | |
| Posted by: Roman 11:40 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
| In reply to: Tale of Hoffman - WaymanWong 11:00 pm EDT 10/06/21 | |
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| She’s not wrong. But I fear Jane is. | |
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