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Payback Time
You\’ll never find \”The Cadillac,\” on any critic\’s list of top 10 \”Seinfeld\” episodes, but I don\’t care. \”The Cadillac,\”episode 124 in the Seinfeld oeuvre, IMHO (in my humble opinion, for those who don\’t use Internet shorthand), is the real thing, among the show\’s most authentically Jewish episodes, revealing the uncircumcised heart within a sitcom generally acknowledged to reflectonly callousness, narcissism and an urbane hipness in post-shtetl America. And, in a small way, \”The Cadillac\” changed my life.
Here\’s the plot of the show that ran February 8,1996 as a 60-minute \”Seinfeld\” special.
Seining Off
American Jews woke up in a different country today, now that \”Seinfeld\” signed off.\n
Musical and Comic Legends
If all you knew about composer George Gershwin washis body of work — \”An American in Paris,\” \”Rhapsody in Blue,\”\”Porgy and Bess,\” plus countless enduring melodies — you would thinkhe lived to a ripe old age. But, in fact, the musical legend was only38 when he died.
An Unlikely Inspiration
Early Sunday morning, just before 1 a.m. Israelitime, a roar was heard coming out of living rooms across the country.Israel had just won the annual Eurovision Song Contest, held thisyear in Birmingham, England, and watched by as many as 100 million TVviewers in Europe and Asia. Wildest of all, Israel\’s representativeat the contest was singer Dana International, a tall, dark,thirtysomething transsexual who had grown up as a boy named YaronCohen.
Casting His Vote
Sixty one and still full of surprises, that\’sWarren Beatty. This weekend, Beatty goes head to head at the boxoffice with \”The Horse Whisperer,\” starring that other senior iconRobert Redford. Redford, like his contemporary Beatty, not only starsbut also directs and produces his movie. May the best man win.
Owing It All to Jerry
Elon Gold is an Orthodox Jewish comedian whoplayed an offbeat Jewish guy from Long Island on the recent WBsitcom, \”You\’re the One.\” Though the short-lived series wascancelled, Gold has plenty of Jewish-themed TV and even movieprojects in the works. During a recent conversation with TheJournal\’s Naomi Pfefferman, he said he owes it all to\”Seinfeld.\”
Recalling the Danish’Miracle’
For Davis, who grew up in a Jewish home inColorado, \”Miracle at Midnight\” is a family story.
Desperate Gambles
Although the surface of Patrick Marber\’s play\”Dealer\’s Choice\” appears to be concerned with the exigencies ofpoker, on a subtextual level it is about surviving the punishments ofcruel gods.
Remembering Poland’s Jews
Jewish roots in predominantly Catholic Poland can be traced back to the 11th century. But when an estimated 88 percentof the 3.3 million Jews in Poland died in the Holocaust, the country\’s thriving Yiddish theater, literature and culture ceased to exist as well.
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