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numerous film festivals
around the world and
still airs on the Bravo
cable channel.
He wrote and directed
Judy Berlin, which
depicts a series of unex-
pected encounters on the
day of a surrealistically
long solar eclipse. Judy
spends the day with an
old high-school
acquaintance she runs
into on the street while
In "Judy Berlin," Edie Falco (the long-suffering mob
her mother, a by-the-
wife on HBO's "The Sopranos') plays a local actress
book grammar-school
with more optimism than talent.
teacher, discovers a
bond with the principal.
"I tried to be very specific and talk
Mendelsohn watched on TV. A partic-
about a specific Jewish community
ular favorite was Myron Cohen, "a
that I knew about," Mendelsohn, 35,
gentle man who would tell a story."
says. "There are a few qualities of Jews
How does Mendelsohn see the
that I tried to incorporate in the film:
future of Jewish humor as the 21st
It's smart, it's funny, it's self-aware and
century begins?
ultimately it's heimish and meshugge."
"I worry about it, to be honest," he
A hit at the Sundance Film Festival
admits. "Jewish humor has become
in 1999, Judy Berlin is infused with a
assimilated [into American culture] —
particular kind of Jewish humor —
it's just considered 'humor.'" O
not shtick, but smart observational
humor.
"I read a lot of Bashevis Singer,"
Judy Berlin, rated PG, is being
Mendelsohn confides. "I have books
screened through March 9 at the
and books and books of Jewish
Star-Great Lakes Crossing
humor." Does he have a favorite
Theatre as part the Shooting
Jewish humorist?
Gallery Film Series. For more
"(S.J.) Perelman," he replies with-
information on the series, call
out hesitation.
(248) 0366 or check online at
"He's a big influence on me."
www.movies.yahoo.com/sgfilmseries.
So were Jewish comedians that
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