8 Friday, March 18, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Mitchum Calls Interview Prank'
That Became 'Tragedy of Errors'
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) —
Actor Robert Mitchum says
he got himself into trouble
as a result of an interview in
last month's Esquire maga-
zine because he was play-
acting in a prankish at-
tempt "to string along" his
interviewer. Mitchum, in a
lengthy interview, emerged
as an anti-Semitic, racist
and sexist bigot.
In a letter to Herbert
Luft, the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency's Hol-
lywood columnist, Mitchum
said he is sorry "about the
misunderstanding, espe-
cially since it is so foreign to
my principles."
Mitchum's statements
caused a stir in the Jewish
community and' received
rave reviews from bigots. In
an effort to find out if the
actor was quoted correctly,
Luft wrote to Mitchum ask-
ing him to clarify the cir-
cumstances of the interview
and to explain some of the
statements attributed to
him.
Mitchum, in his letter to
Luft dated March 9, said
that under pressure
"from a young lady em-
ployed as a publicist by
my employers" he reluc-
tantly agreed to the
interview. What fol-
lowed, as presented in
Esquire by the inter-
viewer, Barry Rehfeld,
amounted to a denial that
the Holocaust had taken
place, and a series of
slurs and expletives re-
garding women, blacks
and the Irish.
When Mitchuxn was
asked about the slaughter of
six million Jews, the actor
replied, "So the Jews say."
He added, "I don't know.
People dispute that." After
a series of questions and an-
swers, Mitchum was quoted
as offering the following
statement: "How do you say
trust me in Jewish? F . . .
you."
Later in the interview,
Mitchum spoke about how,
growing up in Philadelphia,
"I had to go over and light
the Sabbath candles. I was
the only goddamed Gentile
. . . I'd go to Mel Blumberg's
house. He had a rabbi uncle
who'd read from the Old
Testament about angels
pissing on sinners who were
climbing Jacob's ladder."
In his letter to Luft,
Mitchum said that early in
his meeting with Rehfeld he
recited a racist speech de-
livered by Coach Delaney in
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Jason Miller's "That Cham-
pionship Season," in which
he appeared, which Rehfeld
"mistakenly believed to be
my own. From that point on,
he approached me as the
character in the script, and
in playing the devil's advo-
cate in a prankish attempt
to string him along we com-
pounded a tragedy of er-
rors."
Mitchum added that he
is truly sorry that his
misunderstanding has
upset so many people,
especially since "it is so
foreign to my principle.
The attendant mistor-
tune is that it has brought
me a spate of mail from
people and organizations
who are encouraged to
believe that I share their
bigotry and discrimina-
tion."
Ironically, the interview
appeared at the same time
that he was starring in the
ABC-TV series, "The Winds
of War," in which he por-
trayed a U.S. naval officer
in Europe sympathetic to
the plight of the Jewish
people in Fascist Italy and
Nazi Germany. A month
earlier, in January,
Mitchum was an honored
guest at a dinner of the
American Friends of Techn-
ion at which Kirk Douglas
was given an award.
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BONN (JTA) — Opposi-
tion is mounting among
anti-Nazi groups in West
Germany against a rally of
former SS members
scheduled to take place in
Bad Hersfeld, in the federal
state of Hesse, this spring.
The town's authorities,
rejecting protests or ignor-
ing them, have already
made available- for the
meeting a public hall sup-
ported by the town's tax-
payers.
Until recently, the town
of Nassau on the Lahn River
had served as a--meeting
place for the Leibstandarte
Adolf Hitler SS division.
But after public protests
and demonstrations in 1977
and 1978 the town officials
,declared the SS guests as
unwelcome.
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JERUSALEM — Twelve
priests from the Pontifical
Biblical University of
Jerusalem have completed
an eight-month study pro-
gram in Hebrew and Latin
at the University's
Rothberg School for Over-
seas Students.
The priests came from
Australia, India, Italy, Ja-
pan, Lebanon, Nigeria, the
Philippines, Poland, the
United States and Yugos-
lavia.
The program, 'which has
been run by the university
since 1976, is now an integ-
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curriculum.