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Sally Ogle Davis

Television Jews: How Jewish Is Too Jewish?

September 6, 2001

The new television season is upon us. African American and Latino groups are making the expected protests about the lack of people who look like them before and aft of the camera, and the Jews are — as usual — adding up their TV IQ on the fingers of one hand.

If there aren\’t many \”brothers\” out there, there are even fewer \”Members of the Tribe,\” and those that are there are not particularly Jewish Jews, if you know what I mean.

Hollywood and the Holocaust

April 19, 2001

One wet night 15 years after the end of World War II, in the student union of my university in Northern Ireland, I watched a documentary film made up of home movies taken by Soviet troops at the liberation of the concentration camps. Unlike some similar Allied footage, the Soviets, interested in the propaganda value of the material, had made no attempt to sanitize it for public consumption. They wanted the film to be every bit as hellish as the reality.

The Arts

March 26, 1998

What a peculiar piece of work is \”Bent.\” The film version ofMartin Sherman\’s play, first presented on the London stage in 1979,and later on Broadway, has taken almost 20 years to come to thescreen. It\’s not difficult to see why. Not only is it turgid stuff,with a paucity of unfilmable ideas, but in an industry that sometimesseems to specialize in specious history, it will be hard to matchthis one for irresponsibility.

Israel: The Arts

January 4, 1998

This was thestory that had everything: a suffering, underdog people, outnumberedand surrounded by enemies, old and new, battling insuperable odds totriumph in a desert they had made bloom. It was \”Rocky\” before\”Rocky,\” and Hollywood knew a good story when they saw it.

Piggybacking on Jewish Suffering

December 4, 1997

What a peculiar piece of work is \”Bent.\” The film version of Martin Sherman\’s play, first presented on the London stage in 1979,and later on Broadway, has taken almost 20 years to come to the screen. It\’s not difficult to see why. Not only is it turgid stuff,with a paucity of unfilmable ideas, but in an industry that sometimes seems to specialize in specious history, it will be hard to match this one for irresponsibility.

21 Years Ago: Redemption, Hollywood Style

October 9, 1997

Let me be direct and come to the point right off the mark:
\”Seven Years in Tibet,\” appropriately filmed in Argentina — whereold Nazis go to be rehabilitated or to die, whichever comes first –is a turgid piece of filmmaking and as dishonest as, well, \”TheDevil\’s Own,\” Brad Pitt\’s last outing on film.

Fast Forward

August 28, 1997

To some of us who were in college in the early 1960s, the nameTom Lehrer comes, in our pantheon, just below the Almighty andsomewhere above the Beatles.

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