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Spring Community Forum Series on
THE ISRAELI LANDSCAPE
CONFLICT AND CONFUSION
Israeli society has always been characterized by its
diversity and strife, by its pluralism and conflict. The issues
that this lecture series focuses on will attempt to unfold a
variety of topics of shared concern for Israeli and
American Jews.
Monday, March 23
7:30 - 9:30 pm
The Struggle For Religious
Pluralism
Rabbi Donniel Hartman
Senior Research Fellow of the Shalom Hartman
Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, founding
member of the Orthodox peace movement.
Dr. Yoram Peri
Political analyst for daily newspaper Davar and
Professor of Political Science. Tel Aviv University.
Monday, March 30
7:30 - 9:30 pm
Israeli Women In Social Change:
Forwards or Backwards
Dr. Ilsa Schuster
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SUNY, Stony
Brook.
Monday, April 6
7:30 - 9:30 pm
Zionism: The Dream and The
Dilemma
Dr. Ehud Sprinzak
Senior Lecturer of Political Science, Hebrew
University.
For further information call 352-7117
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Dr. Joseph Gutmann
Chairperson
Bertha Chomsky
Erika Herzceg
Dr. Leonard Lachover
Elaine Lebenbom
Dr. Irving Panush
Mitilda Rubin
Edwin Shifrin
Dr. Jack Wayne
Renee Wohl
Dr. Gerald Teller
Rabbi Morton Yolkut
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had my heart ripped out in an Aztec
ceremony — by this guy who used to cut
me with a knife for real every night. I used
to have big arguments with him after the
show."
Somewhere along the way, Paul Ruben-
feld became Paul Reubens. Living in
California, he juggled the aspiring per-
former's usual assortment of "between
engagements" jobs — as a busboy, a Fuller
Brush man, a submarine-sandwich maker,
a setup person in the kitchen of a pizza
shop. Engagements he was between in-
cluded appearing in small parts in two
Cheech and Chong movies and not appear-
ing as the voice of Freaky Frankenstone on
the TV cartoon The Flintstones. (Paul's
vocal diversity continues. In last summer's
movie The Flight of the Navigator, the
voice of Max is credited to Paul Mall. And
in the new George Lucas Star Tours ride
at Disneyland, the main robot, Rex, would
be speechless without him.)
With a former classmate from BU,
Charlotte McGinnis, he developed an act
called the Hilarious Betty and Eddie. "It
was an out-of-trunk kind of vaudeville duo,"
McGinnis says. "We did a puppet show and
a stand-up sound-effects routine." After
winning twice as best act on TV's Gong
Show, the Barris Island boot camp for
entertainers, they tried to win as worst act,
because the award money was the same.
They weren't bad enough.
Paul also appeared on the show as a
Flathead Indian lounge singer, with a
sidekick playing the tom-tom in the
backgrbund. He won twice for that, too. "I
feel like I owe Chuck Barris an enormous
debt because I made a living from The
Gong Show for a couple of years."
Residuals from those appearances keep
rolling in. "I get $7.50 checks once in a
while. And the first five or six times they
rerun 'em, you still get more prizes. I got
a shrimpburger cooker and a bowling-ball
set, and I got this really cool textured-
paint stuff that I used on the walls of the
Groundling Theatre that's still there."
As a member of the Groundlings, an
L.A. improvisational theater group, Paul
created a frenetic little guy named Pee-wee
"I used to have a little harmonica, a little
teeny one about one inch long, and it said
Pee-wee on it, and the name stuck."
In 1980 Paul starred in The Pee-wee Her-
man Show at the Groundling Theatre. A
rough predecessor of Pee-wee's Playhouse
— but more boisterous and with sexual in-
nuendo — it became a cult hit, playing to
adults after midnight and to children at
weekly matinees. Eventually it was shot at
the Roxy Theater for an HBO special.
Behold Pee-wee wearing mirrors on his
shoes to reflect a girl's underwear and hyp-
notizing a young woman in order to get her
to take off her dress. Once she's in her slip
and awaiting his next suggestion, he
doesn't know what to do.
Pee-wee has similarities to Jerry Lewis
and Pinky Lee and Soupy Sales, but he
doesn't seem to come out of any comic
tradition. He's like Beaver Cleaver as
raised by Mommie Dearest.
— MICHAEL McWILLIAMS, TV critic
Jerry Lewis I saw when I was little.
Soupy Sales I probably saw when I was
younger. I never knew who Eddie
Cantor was until years later, when a lot
of older people used to go [an old
Russian-Jewish furrier's accent], "You're
like a young Eddie Cantor." I started to
watch Eddie Cantor, and I could
definitely see the resemblance. His
movies are just incredible, very fantasy
oriented and comedy oriented.
.
— PEE-WEE HERMAN
He's mentioned to me that he won't be
doing Pee-wee forever. I think that gives
the character a poignant edge, because
he does represent childhood, something
temporary, the soul of whimsicality.
There's something fragile and non-
lasting about the image he projects.
And that gives it another power also,
besides the weird freakout quality.
— WAYNE WHITE
Pee-wee is eager to write and perform in
next season's episodes of the Playhouse.
"The most fun we had writing the show
was when we would come up with stuff we
"My only fear about
this subject is that
it becomes more of
a subject because
I'm unwilling to
discuss it. The
problem, to me, is
that I have two
names, and beyond
that, there's not
much of a story."