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slant. Albert Brooks' Looking for
Comedy in the Muslim World and
Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy's
For Your Consideration were the
high-profile titles, though they were
outpolled in some precincts by the
grassroots hits Keeping Up With
the Steins and Boynton Beach
Club.
Woody Allen returned with the
second of two films he shot in
London with Scarlett Johansson,
Scoop, in which the Woodman co-
starred as an avuncular Jewish magi-
cian.
Among the Jewish actors gracing
the screen, Alan Arkin did splendid
work in Little Miss Sunshine, while
a nearly unrecognizable Winona
Ryder continued her slow comeback
in A Scanner Darkly.
Israeli-born actress Natalie
Portman demonstrated the greatest
range by shaving her head for the
epic V for Vendetta and contribut-
ing an emotional, almost wordless
cameo to Israeli director Amos
Gitai's Free Zone.
Zach Braff's bid to transform
himself into a comedic-romantic-
dramatic leading man got off to a
rocky start in The Last Kiss, which
tanked at the box
office; let's hope
he has better luck
with Fast Track,
opening early next
year, in which he
co-stars with Jewish actress Amanda
Peet.
Adam Sandler (Click) and Ben
Stiller (Night at the Museum)
continued to meet the expectations
of their fans and studio shareholders,
while Jack Black continued on his
trek to film superstardom in Nacho
Libre, The Holiday and Tenacious
D in: The Pick of Destiny.
For those keeping a comprehensive
tally of Jewish cameos, the Israeli Air
Force turned up off camera at the
end of The Last King of Scotland
to spirit away the hostages flown
to Idi Amin's Uganda. And Steven
Soderbergh's The Good German
used historical details such as Nazi
rocket scientists, slave labor and
Jewish collaborators for dramatic
heft.
On the documentary side, it was
an unusual year in that films about
Israel were elbowed aside by a
plethora of mostly prosaic portraits
of Jewish men.
The catalog of efforts consisted
of Sidney Pollack's Sketches of

Frank Gehry; the concert film
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man;
Al Franken: God Spoke; HBO's
The Journalist and the Jihadi:
The Murder of Daniel Pearl; and
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright
Tony Kushner.
The best reviews accrued to 51
Birch Street, in which filmmaker
Doug Block delved into his parents'
marriage.
After a couple of years of mini-
mal losses, the number of Jewish
performers who died in 2006 was
substantial.
Topping the list is Shelley Winters,
born Shirley Schrift, who will always
be remembered for her Academy
Award-winning turn as Peter van
Daan's mother in The Diary of
Anne Frank, as well as her arche-
typal portrayal of a domineer-
ing Jewish mother in Next Stop,
Greenwich Village.
We mourn the passing of Yiddish
leprechaun Red Buttons, comedian
and television game show host Jan
Murray, versatile actor Jack Warden
(The Apprenticeship of Duddy
Kravitz) and Richard Fleischer,
director of the 1980 remake of The
Jazz Singer.

On the documentary side ...
prosaic portraits of Jewish men.

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Let's also remember non-Jewish
actresses Jane Wyatt, who spoke out
at the height of the Holocaust against
the Allies' failure to help European
Jew, and Maureen Stapleton, whose
portrayal of Jewish activist and
author Emma Goldman in Reds
garnered an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress.
Polish novelist Stanislaw Lem,
whose science fiction novel Solaris
was adapted twice by filmmakers,
also passed away.
As for what lies in store for 2007,
another Sacha Baron Cohen movie
is in the works, and, hopefully, a few
documentaries about Jewish women
(Barbra Streisand, anyone?).
As for Mel Gibson, the Holocaust-
related miniseries he once proposed
isn't going to happen, and Jeffrey
Katzenberg may not have him on
speed-dial anymore, but Gibson's
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