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Mario's Lobster Tuesday

NATE BLOOM

Special to the. ewish News

Silver Lining To
A Dark Spector

You've probably read about famous
record producer Phil Spector finally
being indicted for the 2003 death of
a "B" actress. This is a murky case
and one shouldn't prejudge Spector
— even though by all accounts he
has not been playing with a full
deck for decades. True to his para-
noid style, Spector played "the eth-
nic card" and compared the L.A.
district attorney's office to "Hitler
and his storm-trooper henchmen."
Yes, Spector is Jewish — but he
has never been much of a Jew. As a
matter of fact, his neuroses and
capricious cruelties alienated famous
Jews who worked
with him —from
the late JOEY
RAMONE to

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current mess. Ronnie is the "nice
Jewish side story" to the rather trag-
ic path of Phil Spector's life. In
1963, he was the biggest figure in
American pop music. By 1980, vir-
tually nobody.would work with
him.

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Dylan Speaks

Frankly, the excerpts of the first vol-
ume of BOB DYLAN's autobiogra-
phy that were recently published in
iVewsweek came as a revelation.
Gone was the man who answered
most interview questions with cryp-
tic or satirical responses. Gone was
the singer who usually said "no"
more than "thank you" to his audi-
ences. The prose is sharp, candid
and, at points, echoes the poetic
rhythm of his best songs.
I suppose Bob will get
around to telling us in a
future volume whether he is
simply Jewish or, as some
speculate, a "low-profile Jew
CAROL CON-
for Jesus." (Dylan became a
NORS, who sang
Christian in the early 1980s,
lead on his first-
but he seemed to stop being
big hit ("To
one circa 1985 and returned
Know Him Is to
to Judaism. However,
Love Him"), to
"Dylanologists" differ on
his former wife,
whether he has simply decid-
pop legend
ed to be quiet about belief in
RONNIE SPEC-
Jesus.)
TOR.
In the released excerpts,
Yes, Ronnie
Ronnie
Spector:
Bob
recounts the terrible price
Spector, who
"Nice
Jewish
side
story"
of
fame
on his personal life
sang lead on the
and the burden of being seen
monster Spector
as the leader of the worldwide
hit "Be My Baby"
is Jewish —with an asterisk, Born of youth rebellion of the late 1960s.
He notes that releasing a country
Filipino and black parents, she
album (in 1969) and being pho-
claims some Jewish ancestry. She
tographed in Jerusalem (in 1970)
describes herself as "Jewish" when
wearing
a yarmulke "helped some"
asked, and her second husband,
with reducing the pressure on him.
manager JONATHAN GREEN-
The country album confused those
FIELD, is Jewish. She celebrates
who wanted him to be the firebrand
Chanukah with her two sons with
of his generation and the yarmulke
Greenfield.
photo,
he says, got him labeled a
We don't know if she formally
"Zionist."
Zionism, even back then,
converted, but after her hellish life
was
not
cool
with many of those
with Phil Spector, in which he virtu-
who
wanted
Dylan
to be their musi-
ally locked her in his mansion for
cal and political messiah. El
years, it's nice to know she wants to
be identified as a Jew.
Nate Bloom is the California-based
Ronnie is such a class act that she
editor of www.Jewhoo.corn
has foregone a bushel of free public-
ity by refusing to comment on Phil's

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