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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Jewish Themes Dotted Theater
and Television Screens in 5741

By HERBERT LUFT
(Copyright 1981,Trit, Inc.)
HOLLYWOOD—During

There were important
feature films such as Fran-
cois Truffaut's "The Last
OF HARVARD ROW
the past year we viewed an Metro" relaying the tragic
Des,gners of Fuse Furs
unusually large number of plight of a German-Jewish
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films of specific interest for theatre director hidden in
Jewish audiences. Some the basement of his estab-
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rather diffused, and a few tion of Paris. Also from
outright detestable.
France came "I Sent a Let-
ter to My Love, - made by
the Israeli Moshe Mizrahi
and starring Simone Sig-
noret.
David
Puttman's
"Chariots of Fire" is a pow-
erful expose of racial bias in
the sports world and high
AGENT OF
society of Britain in pre-
THE MONTH
World War II years. "Tell
me a Riddle,- a film of poetic
beauty, directed by Lee
Grant, gave us the last
chance to see the great Mel-
vyn Douglas in a perform-
It rs a pleasure to announe, that
ance of Shakespearean
scope reminding audiences
of the King Lear portrays by
the masters of world stage.
has recto rd th. agent-of-the-month award as the most out-
"The Eye of the Nee-
standing Rep, sentatrr e of our Detroit-Rosermasser Agency.
dle" deals with WWII as
the award is in recognition of his excellent serz ice to his
seen from the British
policyholders and our Agency
side, revealing the ex-
treme cunning of a Ger-
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man spy who tries to tip
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officers of Hitler's army
with kid gloves as they
respond with extreme
courtesy to their treat-
ment as international
sportsmen who happen
to be POW's— not a very
realistic appraisal.
Chaim Potok's "The Cho-
sen, - screened within the
frame of "Celebration 33"
but only now released, in.
spite of subtle performacnes
by Rod Steiger and Maximi-
lian Schell, may give the
world a wrong impression of
American Jewry in the lat-
ter days of the Holocaust
when survival of our
brethen abroad should have
been more important than
ultra-Orthodox dogma.
Steve Spielberg's "Raiders
of the Lost Ark" lampoons
German officers digging in
Egypt in the late 1930s to
excavate the "Ark of the
Covenant."
Mel Brooks, "History of

the World

—

Part I" has

caused a storm of protest
though the irreveregt film
maker insists he is exposing
but not endorsing man's
bigotry and intolerance.
On television we saw the
rather naive interpretation
of Hitler's last days in the
David Susskind production
for CBS, "The Bunker," an-
other whitewash of the
Nazis which couldn't even
be redeemed by Anthony
Hopkins' impressive per-
formance.
More effectively hand-
led was "Kitty Returns to
Auschwitz," a narrative
film - against the
background of the dread-
ful extermination camp
where the heroine recalls
the grim past.
"Masada," a magnificent
8-hour television epic was
directed by the late Boris
Segal for ABC, Universal
and Israeli industrialist
Arnon Milchan.
This brings us to the phe-
nomenon of Neil Simon,
today by far the most effec-
tive writer for stage and sc-
reen in America.
Only When I Laugh," is
Simon's most serious film to
date. There are no one-
liners in the compassionate
comedy-drama that deals
with a Broadway actress
who has become an alco-
holic and is unable to care
for teen-aged daughter and
to face life in general.
"Producing is a logical ex-
tension of writing," he ex-
plained. "It's simply a mat-
ter of protecting my own
material." Thus, Simon
concerned himself only with
the creative side of "Only
When I Laugh" while Roger
M. Rothstein was in charge
of the physical production.
M. Rothstein was in charge
of the physical production.
The characters in the drama
are portrayed by his wife,
Marsha Mason, with Kristy
McNichol as her daughter,
James Coco and Joan Hac-
kett as her friends, and
David Dukes as her one-
time lover.

Enough research will
tend to support your theory.

Teams Use Ineligible Players
In Quest for Championship

By HASKELL COHEN
(Copyright 1981, JTA. Inc.)

In the quest for supre-
macy and in the race for the
championship of the Israel
National Basketball
League. Some of the clubs
are taking action consi-
dered illegal by the Federa-
tion for International Bas-
ketball Associations (FIBA)
which controls amateur
basketball in 144 countries
throughout the world.
Each country in the FIBA
orbit is permitted to have
one non-citizen of the coun-
try involved as a member of
its basketball squad. In the
case of Israel, this means
that Israeli teams can ac-
quire the services of a non-
Jew who is a non-citizen and
permit him to play on its

team.

For some time now there
has been a considerable

amount of "cheating" so far
as hiding the religious

backgrounds of players is
concerned. The time has
come when this practice
must be curbed or ' re-
strained, otherwise Israeli
basketball is going to come
under heavy censure from
FIBA headquarters.
Right now there are
basketball players in Is-
rael who are masquerad-
ing as Jews and defi-
nitely are not Jewish. In
one case, a young Ameri-
can player who doesn't
know about the regula-
tions is being palmed off
as a Jewish performer. It

France Seeks
Soviet Dissidents
in Prisoner Swap

so happens that he has a
typically sounding
Jewish name. He was
brought over by an Is-
raeli who resides in the
United States and serves
as a scout for a top flight
Israeli team.
It seems that this player
will not be permitted to per-
form for his club in the Is-
rael National League but
will be permitted to partici-
pate in international con-
tests against clubs from
Spain, Italy, and Switzer-
land.
This case is only one of
several which exists in Is-
rael. If this were an isolated
situation perhaps one might
be inclined to overlook the
situation but the time has
come when this should be
brought out into the open
and if the Israel Basketball
Federation doesn't take
steps then we may, ulti-
mately, see so many falsifi-
cations of names and falsifi-
cation of records that in a
matter of a decade half of
the Israel National League
could conceivably be of
non-Jewish origin.
The situation pertaining
to the influx of non-Jewish
players has become so acute
that the sports committee of
the Knesset is sending a
member to the United
States in order to investi-
gate the whole problem.
There is a strong likelihood
that the Knesset's represen-
tative may hire a private
detective to check, in ad-
vance, on every American
from here on in who goes to
Israel as a professed Jew, in
order to play basketball.

PARIS — A prisoner ex-
change involving Soviet
Andrei
dissidents
Sakharov,
Anatoly
Shcharansky and Yuri
Orlov has been proposed by
the French government, ac-
cording to a report in Le
Monde last weekend.
The newspaper reported
that France was prepared to
swap Gunter Guillaume, a
former East German Air
Force general arrested on
espionage charges last year
for the three dissidents.
French diplomatic sources
indicate that the offer had
been made and was pre-
sumably under considera-
tion by East German and
Soviet authorities.

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