Daisy, my condolences to you and Mr. J for your loss.
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2006 7:26:54 am PST #5034 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Scrappy - Mar 20, 2006 7:36:03 am PST #5035 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
HIVEMIND ALERT
We were talking last night and BF and a friend, both Jewish, were saying there are no positive portrayals of American Jews in films in the last 10 years. And by positive, they meant not nerdy neurotic guy. I can think of plenty in television, but none in film off the top of my head. I think films have been blanding out in all kinds of ways, and making leading men as non-specific as possible is one sign of that deplorable trend. In the '70s the top three male stars were Hoffman, DeNiro, and Pacino. Now we have Pitt, Hanks, and Cruise.
Any film titles with American Jewish Leads come to mind?
Gudanov - Mar 20, 2006 7:43:31 am PST #5036 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I've got nothing, but my movie knowlege is pretty much non-existant.
erikaj - Mar 20, 2006 7:46:08 am PST #5037 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
The Human Stain, but the film version? Kind of blech. And what about Ben Stiller? Nobody would ever believe him as anything else very often although I think like the cast of Seinfeld, he does not say he's Jewish except for "Leap of Faith"(?) where he's a rabbi.
Steph L. - Mar 20, 2006 7:46:41 am PST #5038 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Wasn't Zach Braff's character in Garden State Jewish?
t edit Wait. Do you mean movies/characters, or the actors who portray them?
Gudanov - Mar 20, 2006 7:47:05 am PST #5039 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Apparently God wants Katherine Harris to run for congress in Florida, even if the Republicans aren't keen on the idea.
Fred Pete - Mar 20, 2006 7:48:07 am PST #5040 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Robin, I haven't seen it, but School Ties comes to mind. The basic idea is "Gentleman's Agreement in a prep school." So the lead character (played by a young Brendan Fraser) is Jewish, but the theme is anti-Semitism. Since I haven't seen the movie, I can't guarantee that Fraser's character is portrayed positively.
It also goes back a little more than a decade (1992).
Jars - Mar 20, 2006 7:48:22 am PST #5041 of 10001
Keeping the Faith I think, erika, and I was thinking of that one too.
shrift - Mar 20, 2006 7:49:00 am PST #5042 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Right, so. On Friday, I took my car in for some work. Oil change, new brake pads, la la la. Everything was just fine, right up to the point where they crashed my car.
Yeah.
I need lunch. I wonder how weird it would look if I walked up to a drive-up ATM?
Gudanov - Mar 20, 2006 7:49:04 am PST #5043 of 10001
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he does not say he's Jewish except for "Leap of Faith"(?) where he's a rabbi.
Are there that many films where the leading male actor declares his religion?