What started out as a joke between friends fast became a million-dollar goal for a retired Jewish soccer player.
Ethan Zohn emerged as the sole survivor of the third installment of the CBS reality show \”Survivor\” during the two-hour Jan. 10 finale, defeating Kim Johnson, a 57-year-old retired teacher from Oyster Bay, N.Y.
In the 1940s, when Burt Lancaster and Harold Hecht formed their production company, Hecht-Lancaster, they optioned debut novels by two young Jewish writers: \”The Naked and the Dead,\” by Norman Mailer and \”Burial of the Fruit,\” by David Dortort. Dortort and Mailer were hired to adapt their books into screenplays.\n\n\”The fallacy in Hecht-Lancaster\’s logic was that neither Norman nor I knew anything about writing a screenplay,\” Dortort said. \”The verdict came in: these were two of the worst screenplays ever written,\” he added, laughing in the comfort of his spacious Bel Air den. Dortort\’s screenplay mastery came later when the writer parlayed his love for American history into the phenomenon of a show he created in 1959 called \”Bonanza.\”\n\n\n\n
Mathilde Giffard, the title character of \”My Old Lady,\” is a 94-year-old Parisian, though she tries to pass for 92. She has a spinster daughter, Chloe, who is around 50. They are visited by an American, Mathias \”Jim\” Gold, also fiftyish, and Jewish.\n\nThat\’s the whole cast. No well-endowed ingenue, no muscular hunk, no rebellious teenager within 50 kilometers.
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