That way, they can stand up in front and dance the hora during scenes when Spielberg intends for the Jews “feel shame” and thus signal that we refuse to feel shame for Jews who stand up for our rights.

For example, I have heard a review which claims that in one scene a bomb rigged to a phone accidentally kills the “innocent” daughter of a terrorist. If the phone rings before it explodes, the audience could imitate Lily Tomlin’s “Ernestine” the operator and yell out “One ringey-dingey, two ringey-dingey”…

For another example, if any of the terrorists happen to be killed with knife, the audience could yell “slice out his eyes first!”

And whenever an innocent Muslim is killed by mistake, the audience could yell out “OOPSEY!”

Use your imagination. Even if this film is not intended to be ours, we can MAKE it ours with this technique.

Don’t you worry your little anti-semitic head “David.” Spielberg says it’s about America. Munich will be a convergence of the sentiments of self-hating jews and self-hating americans. I bet you’ll love it, it’s a Tony Kushner production.

And with Kushner at the table, it might be different. Ya never know. Can’t fail at something you’ve never tried.

Muffti, you rock my world.

I absolutely loved Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

But Spielberg’s overall sensibility is too cloying and sentimental for my tastes. It is not suited to serious and contoversial themes.

Pablum, indeed.

Cool to know. The name threw me off, I guess.I figured it was Welsh, for some reason.

The real question, of course, is: is Maggie a hot and Jeliciously babelicious?

Muffti and/or ck? Can you check it out?

ou say he’s Jewlicious, but is Jake Gylenhaal Jewish?

First I’ve heard of that, if it’s true.

Your “it’s a bit more complicated than that” is a tad suspicious. What do you mean by that? Is it something along the lines of “it shows them having second thoughts but they go ahead and do it anyway”?

The other thing that sets off my alarm bells is his choice of Tony Kushner to write the screenplay. Assuming that the FrontPage article was accurate, Kushner is obviously what most people describe as a “self-hating Jew” who is very clearly an extreme anti-Zionist. Spielberg certainly didn’t choose him because of his screen-writing skills, since Kushner apparently has never written a screenplay. Obviously Spielberg felt that he was the right man to give shape to his vision, and the idea that Kushner’s political views will not be reflected in his screenplay is absurd.

But, hey, Spielberg is a master at making films that reflect the zeigeist. Schindler’s List was a case in point: a film directed primarily at gentiles who wanted a story that would give them vicarious expiation of their (perceived) guilt. In this Spielberg succeeded brilliantly. He created a cathartic and ultimately inoffensive film about one of the most offensive things that has ever happened. It takes a rare talent to do that. It is not for nothing that he is called Spiel-berg.

So, I expect a piece of well-made, but ultimately middle-brow pabulum.