THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
'The Dick' Latest
Film Portray's Korczak's Heroism/ Novel by Friedman
22—Friday, September 11, 1970
I "Paint Your Wagon," is now writ-
By HERBERT G. LUFT
(Copyright 15:0, STA. in,.)
ing for United Artists the scenario
LONDON—Joseph Hyams, hus-; to The Latent Humanitarian" for
band of German-born Elke Som- early 1971 production. We under-
mer. currently in England starring l stand that the current yarn has
in the motion picture "Zeppelin."' no relation to Chayefsky's tragi-
has written a documentary account comic "The Latent Heterosexual,"
of the Jewish orphans of Warsaw originally announced as a Joseph
gathered in 1939 by Dr. Janusz E. Levine production but cancelled
Kurt:ink and protected by the doc- when the stage play failed on
for until they were shipped off to Broadway.
Treblinka to be killed in 1942.
Ilya ins, himself an American
Shakespeare's
of
Filmization
journalist of Eastern Jewish ori- "The Merchant of Venice," with
gin. with his book, "A Field of Peter O'Toole as Shylock, has been
Buttercups," perhaps makes the canceled by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
strongest indictment of Nazi in- and producer Carlo Ponti who had
sanity, an obsession that caused planned to do the picture at the
2,000,000 children to be murdered actual locale of the drama. The
—not only in Poland but through- reason for the closing down? "The
out occupied Europe —within a Merchant of Venice" has been
period of less than three y.ars.
termed by many as anti-Semitic
The author tells me that the and not timely for our world of
story of Dr. Korczak, who sacri- racial and religious tension. In the
ficed himself %‘:th the little ones silent era of the German cinema.
of his orphanage, originally was the Shakespearean play was
revealed to him by German film filmed in Italy with non-Jewish
producer Artur Brauner, himself thespian Werner Krauss (who was
a survivor of a concentration camp to become a leading Nazi) portray-
who arrived in Berlin after World ing the central figure of Shylock.
War II to make a series of motion
pictures dealing with the victims
The team of Jules Levy, Arthur
of the Third Reich. Brauner had Gardner and Arnold Laven com-
collected much evidence against pleted on location in Spain, "The
the Hitler regime, among it the Hunting Party," with Lou Morheim
Korczak diary from the Warsaw producing and Don Medford
di-
ghetto. The producer is now pre-
recting a cast headed by Oliver
paring a motion picture about Our Reed and Candice Bergen (the lat-
Home Orphanage headed by Dr. ter also starring in Joseph E.
Korczak during its ghetto exis- Levine's current, "Soldier Blue.")
tence.
Famed Polish director
A detective's life, depicted in a
novel, containing the drama of a
policeman who changed his name
from Sussman to LePeters, forms
the theme of the newest narrative
by Bruce Jay Friedman.
"The Dick" is just such a theme
of the activities of Kenneth LePe-
ters. It has its share of sex inci-
dents, it relates to a Jew from
the city who finds himself at odds
in the suburbs, the suburban as-
pects receive a large measure of
attention and the life of a cop is
intermingled with the drama both
of family and community problems.
LePeters who was Sussman
shows his resentment of the chap
who admitted having been a Nazi
and having murdered Jews. It
was then that he was just about
ready to assert his earlier status
as Sussman.
There is sufficient action in
"The Dick"—sexy, the social as-
pect, the police motivations — to
lend to the Friedman novel (pub-
lished by Knopf) the equivalent
interest the author earned in his
earlier works.
Boys Need Big Brothers
LOS ANG ELES (JTA) — The
Jewish Big Brothers Association
has reported that more than 100
Jewish boys, ranging in age from
8 to 17, lack fathers because
of divorce or death in their fam-
ilies. The agency, an affiliate of
the Jewish Federation-Council, dis-
closed the total in announcing a
massive effort to recruit more
members to provide companion-
ship to the fatherless Jewish boys.
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Aleksander Ford will guide the I John Goldstone's production of
production for Artur Brauner'si Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters," general custom. "Pray, sir," said
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Producer-director Joseph Strict:,
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"SOLDIER BLUE," the Joseph
I see men ordinarily more eager
highly controversial adaptation of E. Levine picture produced by
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James Joyce's "Ulysses," fighting Gabriel Katzka and Harold Loeb to discover a reason for things
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so.
—Montaigne
and the Motion Picture Producers cardboard good guys and bad
Association of America for a re- guys, but a late post-mortem ex-
classification of his film, "Tropic pose of the 1864 massacre at Sand
of Cancer," from the novel by Creek during which the Union
Henry Miller, announced upon his troops slaughtered between 300
return from Ireland and France and 700 Indians, more than half
that he plans to make a feature- of them women and children.
length documentary dealing with Ralph Nelson, the director, says,
the "My Lai" massacres in South "The U.S. still hasn't settled the
Vietnam based solely on interviews Indian problem" and newcomer
with American soldiers. In addi- Peter Strauss, portraying the cen-
tion, Strick announces the produc- tral character of a reluctant war-
tion of Bert Brecht's stage play, rior, adds, "This is a story of
"Galileo," a mction picture to be then in terms of now."
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JEROME EPSTEIN was writer-
dimensional lenseless Laser beam
producer
and
director
of the mo-
light, a process now being tested
in Europe. "Galileo," premiering tion picture "The Adding Ma-
chine,"
from
the
depression-bred
on the Los Angeles stage with the
late Charles Laughon almost a play by Elmer Rice. made in Eng-
quarter of a century ago, has a land by Universal Studios and re-
price tog of $1,090,000 for the total leased throughout the United
Kingdom by Rank Organization.
filmization.
(It played last year in the States.)
Jackie Mason, the television-and I met Jerry Epstein first when he
and
a group of fellow-graduates
night club comedian with the as-
sumed Jewish accent, who alleged- from the drama department of the
University
of California started
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