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'Lacombe Lucien' Lacks Truth

Danny Raskin's

By LOUISE

LISTENING
POST

CHARLES AKERS loves to away and they met again .. .
play the card game of hearts Fred and wife Diane were
. . . and usually for high visiting in Israel . . . Joe and
stakes . . . The card to avoid Moe were there for dedication
in this game is the queen of ceremonies of the Morris and
spades, • and when one even- Tillie Brandwine Forest
ing Charlie was caught with planted by the Jewish Na-
it four times running, he ac- tional Fund.
cused his friends of unfair
NEXT TIME YOU hear
discrimination, sticking him Cantor Hyman Adler of Cong.
on purpose . . . The very Bnai David sing outside a
next hand, he got the queen congregational service, ask
of spades again . . . Charlie him to reel off some of the
jumped off his chair and melodies in his vast reper-
cried, "I'll never enter this toire of tunes . .. His rendi-
house again" stamping ang- tions of "Song of the Vaga-
rily out into the night . . . bond" and "Old Man River"
He was back shortly however, among others have been
looking rather sheepishly .. . pleasantries through the
It was his own home!
years.
ATTORNEY AL MAY and
GROUPS TAKE A TIP .. .
wife Sylvia celebrated their Book your date with the Jew-
- 46th anniversary recently .. . ish Community Council's so-
with remembrances of how cial calendar . . . Don't be
they first met . . . Both lived the organization who didn't
in Washington, D. C. where when more than one very
he was with the FBI . . . foolishly has it's affair on the
Sylvia Scheer was only 16 same night as another.
years old and didn't go any-
FORMATION OF Social,
where without a ch'aperone Inc. for young people is near
. . . At the party they were . .. Thanks to those who have
both at, Al tapped her uncle volunteered their services.
on the shoulder and asked to
LOCAL MOTHER found a
dance with Sylvia . . . Court- soiled much-handled note in
ship led to eventual marriage her young son's pocket while
. . . tying a knot of extreme washing . . . It read, "Puff-
closeness . . . Many congrat- puff, draw in, puff." . . . She
ulations to this very wonder- checked her cigarette sup-
ful couple.
ply, then checked her son .. .
HOW DID THEY FIND "What is your explanation of
OUT we used to play basket- these instructions?" she ask-
ball in high school (girl's ed . . . "Mother," answered
team at Commerce) . . . the boy, "I'm learning to play
Anyway what does a person the Star-Spangled Banner on
have to know to coach the the mouth organ."
TRAVEL GENT JULES
Playboy Bunnies, Dec. 10, in
a game at Henry Ford Com- FAYNE tells of the time he
munity College? . . . It's was a social photographer
sponsored by Blood Pressure around town and bumped into
Control.
a chronic gate crasher who
WE'VE HEARD OF hitting went to every wedding recep-
a birdie or an eagle in golf tion he could fine time for
. . . but a goose? . . . Abe . . . to enjoy the refreshments
Bernstein, CPA did it recent- and conviviality . . . At one
ly . . . Note to hunters, Abe affair, Jules, who was wise
used a driver.
to the gent's ways, decided
SIGN HERE . . . From to trap him . . . "Tell me,"
New York, Morris Markle he said, "whose side are you
writes that near the United on, the hassen's or kaleh's
Nations building a hot dog . . . The gate crasher, believ-
peddler has a sign on his ing he had a 50-50 chance of
cart, "I'm neutral." . . . At being right, promptly an-
an oceanside motel near Co- swered that he was on the
Rabbi Eliezer said: "Turn
coa Beach, Fla., reported by kaleh's side . . . "Ah ha," to God the day before you
Buddy Jacobs, "Our pool is said Jules, "this time I've die." And his disciples asked
got you. You're at a Bar him. "Does a man know on
3,000 miles long."
Mitzva, not a wedding!"
DR. FRED AVERBUC•
which day he will die?"
RICHARD MOTHER, four-
had a pleasant double-header
And he answered them,
surprise during his recent year-old son of Harold and saying: "Just because of
visit to Israel . . . The son of Ann Mosher, watched his this, let him turn to God on
Sophie and Gil Averbuck mother try on a new dress this very day, for perhaps
opened door to his room at . . . 'You sure are beautiful," he must die tomorrow, and
the Dan-Carmel Hotel in Hai- he said. "You look just like thus it will come about that
fa, gave out a yell and Joe Abraham Lincoln!"
all his days will be the
Feldman turned around . . .
days of turning to God."
It is a common mistake—
They had•'t seen each other
in over 10 years . . . In Je- indeed, the mistake of mis-
Let a man forgive the dis-
rusalem, at the King David takes—to imagine we can in- grace to which he has been
Hotel, next door to his room fluence anyone else to take subjected.
was Morris Brandwine who the path of goodness, unless
Fred hadn't seen in many and until we travel it our-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
years either . . . 8,000 miles selves.
30—Friday, Nov. 29, 1974

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THE ADVANCE
NOSHERIE CATERING

fails in not depicting the truth
about one of the most tragic
The renowned poet-philoso- periods in world history.
pher Santayana once wrote -
"Those who do not remember
the past, are condemned to
IN THE ADVANCE BUILDING
re-live it!" These are the
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words which introduce 20th
Century Fox's "Lacombe Lu-
Owned and Operated by Ronnie Forman
cien," a tale of French col-
laborators in a small town in
COMPLETE CATERING FROM 25 TO 125
southwest France in 1944,
• ANNIVERSARY PARTIES
• REUNIONS • STAGS
during the days of Nazi occu-
• AFTER-THEATER PARTIES
• SALES MEETINGS •SHOWERS
• BAR MITZVA RECEPTIONS
• BOWUNG BANQUETS
pation.
• BAS MITZVA RECEPTIONS
• WEDDING RECEPTIONS
It presents, in part, the re-
sistance movement, but no-
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pict the brutality heaped
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upon innocent men, women
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and Manhattans
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Cuisine
SUNDAYS
3 to 10:00 p.m.
and children. More import-
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ant, it does not place the
BUSINESSMEN'S LUNCHEONS
Jew in a favorable light.
(Lunch Only)
AND CHOICE DINNERS
The main character, Albert
MON. - THURS., 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
•
Deluxe
Horn (Holger Lowenadler) is
FRIDAY, 11 a.m. to Midnight
SATURDAY, 4:30 p.m. to Midnight
presented as a once-rich tai-
Luncheon
lor who plays host to the col-
EVERY THURSDAY EVENING
Salad Bar ..
laborationists, and caters to
PASTA & PAGLIACCI NIGHT
their every whim and desire.
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MON.
THRU THURS.
Albert is Jewish, and he pays
Luncheon
PASTA & PIANO
heavily for the favor of hav-
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
& Salad Bar
ing his paper state "French"
BOB "Ask Your Neighbor" ALLISON'
—instead of the customary
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"Jew."
MONDAYS, 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Orchard Lake, North of Maple (15)
Writer-director Louise Mal-
PASTA & PHASHION
WE'RE MUCH MORE THAN
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le, in an interview, said he
with fashions by Claire Kelly
AN ORIENTAL RESTAURANT!
Private Carry-Out Dept.
was only 11 when France was
liberated. But the film, ac-
cording to the writer: "con-
tains the strongest, most vi-
vid memory I have of that
Mary Ellen Lippman's
period. I have talked to thou-
sands of people, read books
and the occupation newspa-
pers."
Malle further concedes:
"Now, 30 years later, French-
men are beginning to exam-
ine with open eyes, how they
really behaved under occu-
pation during World War II."
where you can have
If Malle has done his re-
search, as he purports, why
the most delicious
has he chosen to ignore the
pastries in the World
martyrs who willingly gave
their lives for freedom—the
You can have
Jews who went to their
deaths, rather than compro-
Lox and Bagels
mise on their principles? And
what about the Catholics and
if you desire
Protestants who hid their
and for "Something New" .
Jewish neighbors, under the
OF.
shadow of reprisal and death?
try our excellent
The film is deceitful in its
•
presentation; and although it
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purports to be tough and pro-
vocative, it leaves too many
blended and scrambled
questions unanswered. Al-
into country fresh eggs
though "Lacombe Lucien"
records a passage of time
from man's inglorious past, it

(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)

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