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NATE BLOOM

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GiYe STEVEN SPIELBERG a ball cap
saying: "I'm good for the Jews."
His new flick, War of the Worlds, open-
ing July 1, led to a raft of charming inter-
views in which he
didn't seem at all like
a mogul but rather as
the self-described for-
mer "geeky Jewish
kid" who makes neat
movies.
When reporters
weren't describing his
Steven Spielberg.
model family life and
Good for Jews
"niceness," they were
catching the director
singing a Yiddish song with his cine-
matographer.
No less admirable is Spielberg's defense
of War star Tom Cruise from the charge
that Cruise's highly publicized romance
with actress Katie Holmes is a "PR stunt,
"Spielberg saying, in effect, "I am gen-
uine, and so is Tom."
Nonetheless, Cruise came off as weird
in a recent Radar maga7ine item that says
Holmes was just the last of several young
actresses that Cruise recently tried to
romance and lure into Scientology —
the first being SCARLETT JOHANS-
SON, who was set to star with Cruise in

Mission Impossible III
According to Johansson, Cruise invited
her to a meeting to discuss the film but
instead lectured her for hours on
Scientology and "didn't even offer me a
cookie." (Obviously, Scarlett's Jewish
mom taught her how impolite this is).
Not long after, Johansson left Mission,
citing "scheduling conflicts."

Live 8 Hebrews

Live 8, Bob Geldof's worldwide concerts
to call attention to African debt relief, are
on for July 2 and will be televised (check
local listings).
Among those playing the Philadelphia
concert are Maroon 5 (featuring Jewish
rockers ADAM LEVINE and RYAN
DUSICK); Bon Jovi (keyboardist
DAVID BRYAN); and LINKIN PARK
(with ROB BOURDON and BRAD

DELSON).
Meanwhile, up in Canada, Barenaked
Ladies, featuring STEVEN PAGE, will
hit the stage.
Delson's father, by the way, is a former
Hollywood exec who founded a boom-
ing firm that sells high-quality souvenirs
in cooperation with big music acts.
Brad's younger brother had his bar mitz-
vah party in the building that later
became the company headquarters.

Seeds Of justice

Singer-songwriter PAUL SIMON must
have been among those who said,
"Finally," when an ex-Klansman was
convicted last week for the 1964 murders
of Jewish civil rights workers ANDREW
GOODMAN and MICHAEL SCHW-
ERNER and their African American col-
league James Chaney.
Simon was a college classmate and
acquaintance of Andrew Goodman. In
1963, Simon wrote a song, "He Was My
Brother," about an unnamed, murdered
civil rights worker. Simon dedicated the
song to the martyred Goodman when it
appeared on the first (1964) Simon and
Garfunkel album.
A rabbi, speaking at a Mississippi inter-
faith memorial service just before the ver-
dict, said of the trio, "What were they
doing, if not searching for the hidden
spark, the seeds of justice buried in the
dust and ashes of a Mississippi summer?"

Cool Summer Reading
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Its been quite a month for Seattle Jewish
librarian and Detroit native NANCY
PEARL, who received her library degree
from the University of Michigan in
1967.
She's profiled in this summer's issue of
Jewish Women's Magazine, an action-fig-
ure doll of Pearl is selling like hotcakes in
the Seattle area; her new book, More

Book Lust:
Recommended Reading
for Every Mooch
Moment and Reason, a
sequel to the best-sell-
ing Book Lust, has
been chosen as the lat-
est selection of the
Today Show Book
Nancy Pearl:
Club.
Action figure
Through book lists
and own her TV
show, Pearl has turned on Washington
State to the joys of reading. She started
the program of everyone in Seattle read-
ing the same book each month, thus fos-
tering discussion and book clubs.
Now the idea has spread nationwide,
including to the star-laden beach enclave
of Malibu, Calif, where everybody this
month is reading Gidget, the 1957 novel
by Malibu's own FREDERICK KOHN-
ER, based on his real-life surfing daugh-
ter.
Improbably, the Kohners — an
Austrian Jewish refugee family — ended
up spawning a book and film franchise
about an 'All-American girl" who cele-
brates summers on the California shore.
If Gidget was the teen icon of the
1950s, partially credit Kohner's great-
nephew, film director PAUL WEITZ of
American Pie fame, with creating the teen
icon series of the 1990s. "17

Nate Bloom is the California-based editor
of wzvwjewhoo.com