Woody: Mmmmm Suicide Girl: Ewww. Who the hell is that? Henry Kissinger?

Or so I imagine that’s what happened when Woody Allen was interviewed by Suicide Girls, the Web site that features young, scantily clad, tattooed, and pierced women (hey Muffti, wasn’t ol’ what’s her face from RI a suicide girl?). The subject of the interview was of course Woody’s new movie Melinda and Melinda. Why would a world renowned dirty old man film maker submit to an interview by what is essentially a porn site? Wait, why did I even ask that? I did mention close proximity to hot, tattooed and pierced babes, right? Besides, Soon Yi is now what? At least 25 – she’s practically Yoko Ono.

Anyhow, Woody shares this nugget of wisdom – apparently Jews are not innately funny:

It’s a misconception based on the fact that there were many Jewish comedians that came out of the Catskills. But Bob Hope, Buster Keaton or WC Fields weren’t Jewish and they were great comedians. Charlie Chaplin was half Jewish, so which half? Peter Sellers was half. So there are some fabulous Jewish comedians, but there are many that are not. I don’t think it’s a particularly Jewish thing. There was that rush of borscht circuit comedians that came out of that specific milieus. I was raised in a Jewish neighborhood and household so naturally my idiom is where I grew up.

Thanks Woody! Thanks Suicide Girls?

A terrific book review about what seems to be a terrific book.

The book is a biography of Colonel John Patterson, the gentile commander of the Jewish Zion Mule Corps at Gallipoli and later colonel of the Jewish Legion, the Jewish Royal Fusilier Battalions in Palestine in 1918-19. His right hand man and second in command at the Zion Mule Corps was none other than Joseph Trumpeldor – he who is famous for either saying or not saying “it is good to die for our land.”

The review provides fabulous info like:

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Every single person in Israel who does not support the Gaza pullout is quoted today as saying, “We told you so, those polls are lying, Haaretz is a rag, Sharon is a traitor, a referendum is democracy, and B’shana haba’a be’Aza Habenuyah (next year in a built Gaza)!”

Why is every single one of these individuals either giddy with joy, or alternatively, bitterly sarcastic? Because only a reported 10,000 people showed up for a pro-pullout rally on Saturday night. This is supposed to indicate lukewarm support for the pullout from Gaza.

In other news, a whole bunch of Centrist Israelis on the Right and the Left have described themselves as bored with Peace Now demonstrations and have no interest in participating with the Far Left and its attempts to make itself the representative of the Center. It was noted that very few politicians were at the rally from any party and that the rally was opposed by most prominent leaders of Shinui, Labor and Likud.

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