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increasingly wants to borrow the weapon.
The good news this season — yes,
there is some — is that with The
Nanny and Suddenly Susan (the JAP
stereotypical Vicki may have been mar-
ried to a decent sort of rabbi, but she
was definitely cringe material) having
passed into the lucrative afterlife of syn-
dication, parodies of spoiled shop-a-
holic Jewish women on primetime tele-
vision have given way to spoiled shop-
a-holic Italian women on The Sopranos.
And despite rumors to the contrary,
the girls on Sex and the City can't pos-
sibly be Jewish: Carrie only shops
retail, Samantha is a nymphomaniac,
Miranda is too thin, Charlotte is mar-
ried to the only Scottish doctor on
Park Avenue, and they're always pick-
ing at a salad and getting tanked on
cosmopolitans at lunchtime.
In short, Jewish viewers are likely to
find this season as unsatisfying as
countless others. As in real life, Jews
on television this year are still married
to, or dating, non-Jews. It cuts down
on interesting sources of conflict,
according to the writers, if two charac-
ters both celebrate Chanukah and
know the difference between a matzah
ball and kreplach — as if the writers
never noticed the surfeit of conflicts
within the Jewish community.
And there are still many Jews who,
while they have Jewish names and
look Jewish, never identify themselves
as such. But, of course, we've never
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as important as The Mummy, which he
landed just six months after graduating
from England's Old Vic Theater
ded Fehr's shining moment
School in 1997.
came when an Arab recently
"I had no idea about what I was
unrolled his car window and
doing," confides Fehr, who had to take
shouted, "You make us
a crash course in horseback riding and
Middle Easterners proud!"
sword fighting. "I was convinced that
He was referring to the Israeli actor's
the director hated me."
performance as desert
Instead, an
warrior Ardeth Bay,
impressed Steve
Brendan Fraser's dashing
!Somners expanded
Mummy-busting cam-
-°...Fehr's role and re-
padre in The Mummy
wrote the ending so
and The Mummy Returns.
the originally doomed
"Given the political sit-
Bay could be in the
uation, that was the
sequel.
nicest compliment I
For UC: Undercover,
could get," says the star
the training went way
of the new NBC drama
beyond sword fight-
UC: Undercover, who was
ing. Fehr studied with
voted Sexiest Import by
real S.W.A.T. team
People magazine in 1999.
members (his experi-
"Arabs have been unfairly
ence in the Israeli
typecast as terrorists, and Oded Fehr utilizes his expe-
navy during the Gulf
rience as a former member of War and working El
I was proud to play one
the Israeli navy in his role on Al security proved
who was heroic."
"UC: Un d ercover."
After twice portraying
helpful).
.the saber-slinging Bay, it
He also interviewed
was Fehr who was typecast. Requests
FBI undercover agents and was struck
poured in for him to play mysterious
by how similar their job was to his
foreigners; he declined them all. "If I
own. "They would talk about their
wasn't careful, I was going to be doing
`role' and learning their lines and when -
ethnic types all my life," he says.
they're 'in character,'" he says. "That
When UC: Undercover creator Shane
was a revelation." L11,
Salerno asked him to play a Justice
Department undercover unit leader
UC: Undercover airs 10 p.m.
with the non-ethnic name of Frank
Sundays
on NBC.
Donovan, Fehr jumped at the chance.
For the Tel Aviv native, it was a break
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