THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 5, 1975 77
2 Foreign-Born Jews Write 'White Line Fever' movie
By HERBERT G. LUFT
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
HOLLYWOOD — "White
Line Fever," a hard-hitting
action picture dealing with
one man's fight against cor-
ruption in the trucking busi-
ness of Arizona, was writ-
ten by Ken Friedman, a
Jewish refugee from Ger-
many who came with his
parents to America as a
small, child, and Paris-born
J . flan Kaplan who has
in London.
With Jan-Michael Vin-
cent portraying the central
character, "White Line Fe-
ver" was produced by John
Kemeny for Columbia Pic-
tures, in association with
International Cinemedia
Center of Canada, founded
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by Kemeny with Gerald
Schneider and Mort. Lit-
wack who act as executives
on the film.
Irwin Allen who made a
mint for himself and the
studios with "The Poseidon
Adventure" and "Towering
Inferno," two technically
brilliantly executed motion
pictures lacking coherent
and believable story plots,
panned by the critics but
praised by the public, now
has signed a new, three-fold
contract with 20th Century
Fox.
Following his own trend
toward blockbuster action
and terror pictures, Allen
leads off his multi-million
dollar schedule with "The
Day the World Ended,"
based on the Literary
Guild best-selling novel by
Gordon Thomas and Max
Morgan Witts to be
adapted for the screen by
Nelson Giddings. The Os-
car-winning producer will
follow his record-breaking
grosser "Poseidon Adven-
ture" with a sequel, tem-
porarily titled, "Poseidon
Adventure. II."
The third production
planned by Allen is
"Circus," a gigantic under-
taking to be photographed in
conjunction with Ringling
Bros.-Barnum and Bailey,
based on a screenplay now
being written by Academy
Award-winning author Ed-
ward Anhalt.
Richard Roth is produc-
ing for Fox, "Julia," with
Jane Fonda in the title role
and Sydney Pollack direct-
ing on location in Europe.
The script by Alvin Sargent
is based on a true incident in
young British actor who
portrayed the title role in
Ken Russell's "Mahler"
and the father of
"Tommy" in the current
rock-opera film, is set to
essay the part of "Jesus"
in a six-part television se-
ries to be presented on
NBC during the 1976 sea-
son. Peter O'Toole will
play the part of John the
Baptist, with Sir Laurence
Olivier very likely as Pon-
tius Pilate. Franco Zeffi-
relli will direct the biblical
epic for British-Italian in-
terests.
Lillian Hellman's book,
"Pentimento," .a collection
of portraits in the form of a
memoir.
Fred Weintraub and Paul
Heller are producing for
Paramount, "Comedy Ca-
pers" from an original
screenplay by Larry Tucker,
who wrote, "I Love You, Al-
ice B. Toklas," and the
highly successful sexploita-
tion picture, "Bob and Carol
and Ted and Alice" — the
latter catapulting Elliott
Gould to fame and fortune.
The forthcoming Wein-
traub-Heller production is a
contemporary comedy chase
with locations in Hollywood
and throughout the United
States.
Robert Powell, the
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What is the origin of the New Year's cards which
people send each other for a greeting card on Rosh
Hashana?
The Maharil (Rabbi Jacob Molin), in his 14th Century
work on Jewish customs, relates that during the month be-
fore Rosh Hashana a person is obligated to extend good
wishes to his friends and neighbors by saying, "May you be
inscribed and sealed for a good year."
He related also that his teacher (Rabbi Shalom ben
Isaac) used to append a similar salutation to his letters dur-
ing this period. We have on record Rosh Hashana greeting
cards in German in manuscript form from the early part of
the 19th Century. In the late 19th Century we already find
printed Rosh Hashana greeting cards.
In general, during the period of judgment, the rabbis
stressed the need for unity and solidarity among the people.
Sins often come from the lack of unity, and salvation is
therefore the result of the resumption of unity. Thus, the
greetings expressed verbally, in writing or in printed form
tend to solidify the people.
There are some writers who suspect that the popularity
of greeting cards among other religions in some of their hol-
idays and the commercialism of our times have helped
promote the large amount of greeting cards exchanged at
this period.
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It is not really the act of blowing the shofar which is
the reason for the prohibition but rather the possibility of
a violation of the Sabbath which might be incurred in the
preparation for the act.
The rabbis were concerned lest one forget it was Sab-
bath and carry the shofar out into the public domain — an
act prohibited on the Sabbath. It is for this same reason
that the lulav is not used on the day of Sukkot that falls on
the Sabbath.
The rabbis find some allusion to their ruling from the
fact that the Bible mentions the day of Rosh Hashana once
as being a "day of blowing" (Numbers, 29:1) and another
time as a day of "remembering the blowing" (Leviticus
23:24).
This means that sometimes on Rosh Hashana we ac-
tually blow the shofar (when it is a weekday) and at other
times we only remember that the shofa4. : is blown (when
Rosh Hashana falls on the Sabbath).
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Why is it required to hear 100 notes from the shofar
on the day of Rosh Hashana?
The three explanations that are offered for this re-
quired number have to do with three mothers. One rabbinic
source claims that the 100 notes of the shofar represent the
100 cries uttered by the mother of General Sisera when she
realized he was not to return alive from the battlefield.
Another source claims that the 100 notes represent the
100 shrieks exclaimed by the biblical mother Sarah when
she was informed by Satan that her son was brought up to
the mountain for the purpose of being sacrificed.
A third source claims that the notes represent the cries
of a mother who is about to give birth to a child.
What is somehow common to all of these reasons is
that the shofar expresses the most basic form of the expres-
sion of concern.
There is concern over what the New Year will bring and
there is concern over the past which can no longer return.
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Why is it that the shofar is not sounded on the day
of Rosh Hashana which falls on the Sabbath (as the first
day does this year)?
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Gerd Oswald is directing
in Vienna, "To the Bitter
Rosh Hashana is a call for
the awakening of social, eth-
ical, and religious responsi-
bilities; a day of soul-
searching and of spiritual
inventory taking. It is a day
of judgment and of prayer
for the unification of man-
kind under the Kingdom of
God. (Based on a Talmudi-
cal interpretation of Psalm
81:4-5. Talmud Rosh Has-
hana, 8-a).
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
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End," an English-language
version of the best-selling
German novel by Johannes
Mario Simmel, one of the
new, outspoken anti-Nazi
authors. The screenplay is
by Oswald and Manfred
Purzer. CurreniFy -befie
the cameras are Suzy Ken-
dall and French star Maur-
ice Ronet, with Susanne
Uhlen joining the cast in a
supporting role. The picture
will return to Hollywood for
final scenes shortly.
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