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NATE BLOOM
Special to the Jewish News
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The New York Post is entertaining, but
not the last word in accuracy. You
probably heard of their huge gaffe last
week, when they printed a front-page
story that proclaimed that they had
learned, before anyone, that Dick
Gephardt was going to be John Kerry's
V.P. pick. (ANDREA MITCHELL of
NBC is generally credited as being the
first reporter who broke the news that
Kerry was about to pick John
Edwards).
This howler reminded me of their
2002 gossip item in which the Post
implied that baseball great and former
Dodger SANDY KOUFAX was gay.
While not a huge ladies' man, Koufa.x
is certainly not gay, and he's well
known for dating and marrying
women. Koufax eventually got a
retraction from the Post and ended his
relationship with the Dodgers, who
were then owned by the same compa-
ny (Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.)
that owns the Post. He resumed help-
ing the Dodgers when the team was
sold to another owner last year.
Likewise, the Post got indignant
when the pretty PAIGE DAVIS, best
known as the
host of the hit
Learning
Channel cable
series Trading
Spaces, ques-
tioned the
accuracy of a
recent Post gos-
sip report that
she wildly
stripped-down
as part of her
act for a benefit
for "Broadway ,Paige Davis
Cares," a group of "Trading Spaces"
that helps
AIDS patients.
Davis said the crowd was "90 per-
cent gay," and that while she did a
striptease— she didn't show that
much skin. The Post came back and
said another paper had pictures sup-
porting the item. Whoever was right
— it was a cheesy item. Davis was
doing a charity event for adults and
maybe got a little carried away in the
moment. Who cares?
Davis, a talented and seasoned musi-
cal actress, just opened in the
Broadway version of Chicago and will
perform in the show until Aug. 8,
when Spaces starts filming.
Last year, Davis celebrated Passover
with a local South Carolina family
when Spaces was filming down there.
All it took was one call to the nearest
synagogue, and a family was found
that hosted her and two Jewish Spaces
staff members.
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Speaking of Koufax, the Baseball Hall
of Fame has announced that on Aug.
29 and 30, it will play host to a cele
bration of Jewish Major Leaguers.
Retired players, including KEN
HOLTZMAN, RON BLOMBERG
and ELLIOT MADDOX (who is a
convert), have said they plan to attend.
HARRY DANNING, 92, the oldest
living Jewish Major Leaguer, also may
attend. The events will include a panel
discussion on "the Koufax legacy."
Sadly, none of the 10 active Jewish
Major Leaguers can be there because
of scheduling problems, including
KEVIN YOUKILIS (who has a Greek
last name but is totally Jewish and not
a Greek Jew) and GABE KAPLER of
the Red Sox, whom documentary
filmmaker and former Detroiter
AVIVA KEMPNER ( The Lift and
Times of Hank Greenberg recently
called "the boychiks of summer."
Happily, South African PHILIP
RABINOWITZ, 100, is now the
holder of the world's record for the
fastest 100-meter run by a person over
100. On July 3, Rabinowitz unoffi-
cially broke the record, but a power
failure knocked out the timers in the
stadium where he was running and
his record couldn't be credited.
Rabinowitz, known as "Rabinoblitz"
to his friends, ran the 100 meters in
the same stadium a week later, and
this time he officially got the world's
record.
Rabinowitz came to South Africa
when he was 21, fleeing anti-Semitism
in Lithuania. He credits his good
health to a good diet and "not worry-
ing." Earlier this year, he carried
the Olympic torch as it toured
South Africa. ❑
Nate Bloom, the California-based editor of vvww.jewhoo.com , can be reached
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