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| re: Time Mag on Non-Jewish Women Playing Jewish Women | |
| Last Edit: TheOtherOne 07:30 am EDT 10/09/21 | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 07:18 am EDT 10/09/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Time Mag on Non-Jewish Women Playing Jewish Women - comedywest 11:31 am EDT 10/08/21 | |
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| Garfield would seem to have three strikes against him in our current climate. Prior is gay, American and a WASP; Garfield is straight, British and Jewish. Newman played a Jew in Exodus, but that might have been it. His performance as the Irish lawyer in search of redemption in The Verdict is widely regarded as his best. I couldn't imagine anyone complaining about his casting over ethnic authenticity. Ditto Jason Robards for his many performances in the plays of Eugene O'Neill, most of which still cast a shadow over others who play the roles. I realize that Sarah Silverman is specifically talking about the misrepresentation of Jewish women in current culture, but it wasn't too long ago that Nathalie Portman played our only Catholic First Lady in an acclaimed film performance, and it wasn't too long before that that Jessica Hecht and Scarlett Johansson played the Italians Beatrice and Catherine in an outstanding Broadway revival of A View From The Bridge (alongside Liev Schreiber, Corey Stoll and Morgan Spector). They were all excellent. What else matters? |
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| re: Time Mag on Non-Jewish Women Playing Jewish Women | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 09:15 pm EDT 10/11/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 09:14 pm EDT 10/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Time Mag on Non-Jewish Women Playing Jewish Women - TheOtherOne 07:18 am EDT 10/09/21 | |
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| Paul Newman was half-Jewish; his father was Jewish. If anyone questions that "half-Jewish" designation, as someone did recently in one of these threads, Groucho Marx told the story of his attempting to go swimming at a country club that he found out was "restricted". He was with his daughter, so he told the guy at the pool, "My daughter is half-Jewish -- so can she go up enough to her knees?" |
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| re: Time Mag on Non-Jewish Women Playing Jewish Women | |
| Posted by: comedywest 10:32 am EDT 10/09/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Time Mag on Non-Jewish Women Playing Jewish Women - TheOtherOne 07:18 am EDT 10/09/21 | |
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| Exactly. Nothing else matters. (Although I didn't really buy Cary Grant as French in I Was a Male War Bride....and yet I still l liked it.) |
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