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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1988
Bubbie
Continued from preceding page
"goldeneh medina" (golden
land, i.e. the U.S.) provided a
change of dramatic focus for
Bozyk and her husband
which was not entirely by
choice. "When we came to
America we became comedy
actors because it was the most
commercial theater being
performed at the time. When
we came in 1941 there were
many great theaters — the
National, the Public theater,
Second Avenue and another
theater on 10th and 11th
Street. My husband — he was
in every Yiddish film that
was made."
Her biggest regret is over
"the decline of the Yiddish
theater. I feel very bad. There
are fewer theaters and too few
people to just keep up the Yid-
dish language. I would love to
see idealistic people keeping
up Yiddish with dignity. It is
important to see people tak-
ing it up and young people
reading it and learning it."
Bozyk has only the
warmest feelings about her
recent success in making
Crossing Delancey. My rela-
tionship with Amy Irving was
a beautiful one on and off the
screen. She is the cuddliest
person and the feeling re-
mains. We continue the
friendship, even after the film-
ing ended."
She also has very positive
things to say about director
Joan Micklin Silver who "is
a clever woman and exactly
knows how to talk to people,"
and Peter Riegert who is a
"proud and decent man off
and on the screen!'
She disagrees with the
observations that the Bubbie
was interfering in her grand-
daughter's life. "She gave so
much love to the grand-
daughter, and would even
give her life. She was not in-
terfering — it was much
deeper than that.
In Bozyk's "reel" life she
had a granddaughter but in
her real life the fates have
provided her with four grand-
sons from the daughter who
came as a child to America.
She proudly talks about these
grandsons who are not mar-
ried. She claims that "I won't
be a shadchen for these
grandsons. I want them to be
a friend and not their mat-
chmaker. We are all entitled
to our own choices without in-
terference. In the movie, it
was different because the
granddaughter was already
33 and because she loved her
so much."
The popularity of the film
has made her "drunk with
pleasure. People stop me on
the street and the com-
pliments are unbelievable
and the feeling about the film
is so good and it's goad to see
such pleasurable faces. People
come up to me for the first
time — an Italian neighbor
and a black one and compli-
ment me. On opening night it
was a celebrity evening and
people like Stephen
Spielberg, who you know is
married to Amy Irving, and
Michael J. Fox have com-
plimented me and they were
all very generous in their
comments!'
She debunks being labeled
the Jewish Olympia Dukakis.
"I don't like the comparison.
She has proved herself and I
still have to prove it!"
Parts of the film reflect her
own reality. She lives in the
Lower East Side and many
scenes were filmed in her
neighborhood. But she
doesn't take karate classes.
And during the making of the
film she actually did fall
asleep on the couch.
Her advice to Jewish actors
is simple. "If it's good, it will
come to you. Bashert is
bashert."
■■ •• ■ 1
NEWS I'm'
AJC Stresses
Acculturation
Los Angeles — Tbstifying
before the United States
Commission on Civil Rights,
an American Jewish Commit-
tee leader stressed the impor-
.tance of immigrants holding
on to their sense of group
identity as they acculturate,
not assimilate, into American
life.
Speaking at the commis-
sion's forum on the "Impact of
Changing Demographics on
Civil Rights," Bruce M.
Ramer, chairman of AJC's
commission on national af-
fairs, noted: "Two concepts
must be clearly understood
and advanced in order to pro-
mote increased tolerance in
our society. One is that the
adjustment of newcomers -in-
to American life should be
viewed as an acculturation
process rather than as a pro-
cess of assimilation. The se-
cond is that the U.S. is a
pluralistic society, with each
participating ethnic group
continuing to reflect its own
patterns of group identity and
interests in the context of a
broader set of civic values!'
ORT Returns
New York — ORT, the inter-
national Jewish vocational
and technical training
organization, has ratified a
return of ORT school opera-
tions to Hungary after an
absence of 40 years. The deci-
sion was taken at the recent
world executive meeting in
Budapest, Hungary.