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Joan Rivers' strong link with her Jewish identity
pulled her through a very rough year.
Steven Spielberg made "An American Tail" in an ef-
fort to honor his grandfather and the era he
represented.
Seidler-Feller's bimonthly Talmud study
sessions attract, he said, about 25 people
on a regular basis, among them such
Hollywood citizens as director Jeremy
Kagan ("The Chosen"), actor Richard
Dreyfuss and comic Lotus Weinstock.
Some may have to grow "out" of their
Jewish associations to find success, one
Hollywood insider claims.
According to one source, "lb a degree,
Jeremy Kagan's career has suffered from
association with 'The Chosen,' " the film he
directed based on Chaim Potok's popular
novel about secular and religious Jewish
worlds clashing.
Indeed, the Hollywood Jewish story may
not be as G-rated as one initially expected.
Comedian David Steinberg, scheduled to
direct a film version of Joseph Heller's
novel Good as Gold, finds the situation
definitely unfunny.
He has been discouraged from pursuing
the film about a Jew who covets the posi-
tion of U.S. secretary of state. Those doing
the discouraging? Other Jews, executives
in Hollywood, he said.
Steinberg told one reporter, "They just
haven't worked it out yet," referring to the
executives' own fear of alienating non-
Jewish America.
Director Paul Mazursky ("Moscow on
the Hudson," "Down and Out in Beverly
Hills") is reportedly having a similar prob-
lem with his film, "Enemies," based on an
I.B. Singer story about a survivor of the
Holocaust who has more than his share of
wives.
In a way, such reluctance on the part of
Hollywood to tackle such a film is under-
standable — albeit regrettable, said pro-
ducer Gary Rubin, still trying to get
"Good as Gold" to the screen.
"There is such a paranoia out there
about saying yes to something, especially
when saying yes in Hollywood means com-
mitting to a $15 million film."
A film perceived as being Jewish can
create "tsuris" for its producers. After all,
added Rubin, Jews make up only 3 percent
of the audience. "It's almost impossible to
make such a movie."
But Gary Rubin, like Mazursky, keeps
plugging away. "What propels me?" He
pauses. "Stupidity."
If others smart at the notion that movies
with Jewish themes take a back seat to
commerce, it's only a matter of common
sense, said Seidler-Feller.
When Hollywood is willing to risk box
office for its beliefs, when "Variety's"
headlines scream out, " 'Cantor Bob at the
Bimah' a Boffo Hit," maybe then the
transformation will have been completed.
Until then, one must understand the
rules of the game. "Show business is first
and foremost a business," Seidler-Feller
said. 0
Michael Elkin is the entertainment editor
of the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia,
from which this piece is reprinted.
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