rec.arts.movies.past-films

After serious thinking David Matthews wrote :
>>> > Baldoniafter his three day drunk wrote :
>>> >> really real explained on 13/02/2008 :
>>> >>> Continuing with my Paul Newman exploration, I thought I'd give Exodus
>>> a
>>> >>> spin. I could tell by how slowly the opening credits unfolded that I'd
>>> >>> have a problem with this movie.
>>>
>>> >>> Interesting scene when Peter Lawford is making anti-semitic remarks
>>> >>> about how easy it is to spot a Jew, and Paul Newman gets him to look
>>> for
>>> >>> a sty in his eye. Lawford can't see that Newman is a Jew. Can we?
>>>
>>> >>> I gather that Paul Newman is half Jewish. Did anyone know this when
>>> the
>>> >>> movie first came out. I remember hearing complaints that no Jews were
>>> >>> hired in the production of Exodus.
>>>
>>> >> I would have thought the surname "Newman" would be a dead giveaway.
>>>
>>> >> Every Newman I ever met was Jewish or of Jewish ancestry.
>>>
>>> > Saying that he is very short for a Jew !
>>>
>>> > --
>>> > Count Baldoni
>>>
>>> OTTO! LET MY PEOPLE GO! (Comedian Mort Sahl to Otto Preminger during the
>>> intermission of the very lengthy movie.)
>>>
>>> You should read Norman Jewison's auto-biography as he relates the problems
>>> of having a name like Jewison and not being Jewish.
>>
>>>...or Norman.
>>
>> I had no idea my middle name was Jewish. Of course, I was 30 or so before
>> I found out my last name was French, so....
>>
>> Jim Beaver
>
>
> Is Norman Jewish? My reference gives it as old German.
>
> Dave in Toronto
>>

I would have thought so.

A reading from the prophet Norman "Unto this land will arrive three
scholars and a great King will be revealed to YAWEH's
people...............

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Count Baldoni