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said, they're all in good fun.
"It'll never come off as
anti-Semitic because it's
written tb celebrate the stu-
pidity of the Nazis," he
said. "If there is an occa-
sional Jew who just doesn't
get it, well, it was worth it
for the greater good. There's
always one curmudgeon
who's ready to stand on a
soapbox."
Movie aficionado David
Magidson, who directs the
Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit's
Lenore Marwil Jewish
Film Festival, called The
Producers movie "one of
the comic treasures of our
time."
"People are not seriously
insulted in it," he said. "It
makes light of Hitler; it
exposes him for what kind
of fool he was.
Lee Roy Reams and Rich Affannato: "Keep It Gay." Unfortunately, he was a fool
with a lot of military clout.
"Some people think anything that
unconscious flag comes up and says, 'I
makes light of Hider is wrong, "
don't think this guy's so crazy about
Magidson said. "But people have
Jews,'" he said.
come a long way. Just because some-
Brooks called that kind of com-
mentary "a sly and cute way" of den- thing is terrible, unthinkable, that
doesn't mean you can't make fun of
igrating Jews. He claimed critics sel-
dom come right out and say, "Jewish it."
),
Brooks predicted a long life for the
humor.
musical — not only on Broadway but
"But you do see quite often a
also in America's heartland, and even
`Catskills' flavor, and they use the
in high-school theater.
word 'shtick.' They never get it right.
Although Bialystock and Bloom are
They say 'stick,' 'Catskills stick'; they
seeking fame and fortune, he said, by
which is very cute,
leave out the
but you know that they are not
necessarily a big fan of Jews."

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Equal Opportunity
Insults

In a personal interview with
the Jewish News, Brooks
remembered a time during his
Army service when another
soldier standing behind him in
line for dinner called him a
derogatory name for Jews.
"I smacked him over the
head with my mess kit," he
said. "Unfortunately, it sort of
scalped him, and they threw
me into the guardhouse.
"I think that's when I started
to write 'Springtime for
Hitler."'
Like his other work, the
musical comedy version of The
Producers is full of insults and
stereotypes — including
Jewish stereotypes — but, he

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