Woody Allen movies, maybe? Meet the Parents?

It was supposed to be only Jewish men who weren't protrayed as nerdy and neurotic so I think Meet the Parents is out.

I don't know that I'd call this "stealthy" though -- I wouldn't know any of my co-workers' religions if it weren't for holidays (and only then if they make a point of taking time off for Good Friday, or Yom Kippur, etc).

Right. That was my point, I just didn't bother to actually type it out, since that would have required thought and effort.

since that would have required thought and effort

On a Monday? Nah, not worth it.

I stayed home from work today, ostensibly because I have a doctor's appointment, but mainly to get some stuff done. What am I doing? Hanging out here, reading Buffistas. I'm such a slacker.

Any film titles with American Jewish Leads come to mind?

Can I sing a couple bars of the Hanukah song??

I would suggest that, with the general cultural trends toward integration, Reform intermarriage, and blow-em-up movies not giving a shit about what the characters do when they're at home, Jewishness in film characters tends to become invisible. Once it's invisible, everybody just casts a tall himbo goy and doesn't even think about it. I can think of recent Jewish Issue movies -- Munich, The Believer -- but the former is a period piece (as is School Ties ) and the latter's protagonist is ultra-Orthodox. But I can't think of many major movies I've seen lately that have Jewish characters in a way that isn't, like, an Issue.

I suspect that it's like a lot of things that give texture to a story: in bad storytelling, all but the extremes disappear.

Grrrr.

Dear Cow-orker -

If you have someone in your office, PICK UP THE GODDAMNED PHONE. You know it's me, you know how I talk, and you KNOW my propensity for being .... colorful .... with my language.

Thanks for embarassing me, asswipe.

Me.

What about the movie A Price Above Rubies? I haven't seen it yet, but a Jewish friend of mine swears its one of the best movies that came out in 1998. [link]

It's set in a conservative Jewish community. Some of the characters are portrayed positively, others not so much.

It was just on one of the Encore movie channels over the weekend, and I caught a few minutes of it. Sort of strange seeing Renee Zellwinger as an Orthodox Jewish wife, complete with wig and long-ish skirt.

OK, don't nobody be freakin' out here, as this is a very extreme position, but... there are people who are trying to overturn the 19th Amendment. You know, the one that gave women the right to vote?

I'm gonna whitefont this for the benefit of those who don't want their heads to explode:

"The Nineteenth Amendment caused government spending to skyrocket, which converted the United States, its Constitution, and its Bill of Rights, into a totalitarian state. Professor John Lott of the Law School University of Chicago proved statistically that it was women's suffrage, and nothing else, which caused this unbridled government growth. Spending too much for government destroyed private property rights, plunged the US into huge debts and destroyed Personal Savings. Professor Lott demonstrated that the reason the increase in federal expenditures resulting from the First World War didn't return to its previous historic level was due solely to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1921. This unbridled government growth is why one third of the men in the world who are behind bars are American men, why an American man is 1,000 times more likely than a Japanese or an Italian or a Greek man to be convicted of rape, why more Americans per capita are incarcerated for just drinking and driving than Japanese are for all crimes combined even though a non-drinking woman driver is five times more likely to have a fatal accident than a drinking man driver, why existing adultery and sodomy laws are not upheld, and why the US is the only industrialized nation with a negative Personal Savings rate."

A stunning display of idiocy....

The Christian anti-suffrage site: The Petition to Repeal The 19th Amendment

Wow. I had no idea that my vote gave me such power.

Y'all excuse me. I have to go use my voting rights to force all men to wear eye-liner and leather, funded by a repressive hike in property taxes. And maybe something involving gay pr0n on PBS, depending on whether I can work it in around my pilates class.