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A New Blend of Chick-Lit Sleuth
Susan Josephs
April 21, 2005
Like her protagonist Sophie Katz, Kyra Davis has skin the color of a \”well-brewed latte.\” That\’s why she has spent a large portion of her life fielding comments about her ethnicity.
There was her supervisor at a clothing store, for example, who asked about her Star of David necklace, since how could Davis be Jewish when she looks black? Or all the times people have assumed she\’s Puerto Rican and lecture her on taking pride in one\’s heritage when they discover she can\’t speak Spanish.
\”Occasionally, when people ask me where I\’m from, I\’ll make up some country in Africa and act really offended if they say they never heard of it,\” Davis said.
A Skittish Homage to Cynthia Ozick
Daniel Asa Rose
October 21, 2004
Confession: It\’s not Virginia Woolf I\’m afraid of — it\’s Cynthia Ozick. Even though she blurbed my last book (disclosure, disclosure) and once recommended me for a fellowship I didn\’t get (thanks for the memories, Mr. Guggenheim), still I\’m afraid of her. She reminds me of Virginia Woolf, is why.
A Happy Ending Even for an Indie
Naomi Pfefferman
November 13, 2003
One week after her 1998 wedding, New York actress Isabel Rose packed up her belongings and moved with her husband to London.
Good Timing Lands Luck in Director’s Lap
George Robinson
September 18, 2003
Greg Pritikin\’s film takes place in a sort of every-suburb America of tract houses with manicured lawns and two-car garages, and is utterly devoid of anything to place it in historical time.
Fear and Self-Loathing in Atlanta
Naomi Pfefferman
September 4, 2003
When Alfred Uhry was growing up in a German Jewish family in Atlanta, he didn\’t know what a bagel was. The word, "klutz" was as foreign to him as Chinese.
The Problem With Julie
Naomi Pfefferman
August 29, 2002
\nLike the know-it-all self-help guru in her neurotic comedy, \”Amy\’s Orgasm,\” 28-year-old filmmaker Julie Davis had never had what you\’d call an actual boyfriend back in 1998. But she liked to dish out relationship advice. \”I had all these theories,\” says the effervescent writer-director, whose debut film, \”I Love You, Don\’t Touch Me,\” featured a 25-year-old virgin holding out for Mr. Right. \”Like, \’save yourself for the one,\’ and \’a woman doesn\’t need a man to feel complete.\’\”
Leave the Czech
Mike Levy
January 3, 2002
Vivien Straus grew up on a 660-acre kosher, organic dairy farm on the outskirts of a town of 50 in Marin County.
The Right Type
Naomi Pfefferman
November 22, 2001
David Krumholtz has a theory about why he\’s played so many charming but zhlubby Jewish guys in film and on television.
Searching for ‘Esther’
Mike Levy
June 14, 2001
Wendy Graf\’s new comedy \”The Book of Esther\” focuses on a central character named Mindy, who, like Queen Esther, bravely declares her Jewishness in the face of opposition. Unlike Esther, Mindy doesn\’t save the Jewish people, but confronts her ardently secular family and friends when she discovers her religion.
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