Re: The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

That is one amazingly funny film. Much watch it again for the klezmer content 
:-). And for laughter.

At 05:10 AM 1/15/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>To change the topic, have any of you seen this old (1970's) film by
>Louis de Funès? I saw it
>at the time it came out and then found it in our local public library
>system and we watched it yesterday (in French only, no subtitles; I
>think there's a version with them, though).
>Relevant to JMD, there's a mind-boggling dance scene, at a bar mitzva
>celebration on the streets of the Le Marais area in Paris, with a Muslim
>and a Catholic disguised as Hassidim (I won't tell you why if you
>haven't seen it) dancing away in the centre of it all....
>
>Non-musically, or para-musically  - not only is it still
>hilarious, but the Jewish-Christian-Muslim interactions now seem
>touchingly innocent...
>but it also occured to us that the unparalleled green chewing gum scene
>might be used by as an alternative to, say, bombs - surely
>arranging to have the offenders dumped in vats of liquid green (or
>another colour, one can be flexible) chewing gum is less destructive to
>innocent people, and more ecological,  and possibly even
>more effective?
>
>

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