![]() ![]() MUST CLICK ON THE TITLE AT THE TOP OF THE EMAIL TO REACH THE JEWISH HUMORĬENTRAL WEBSITE, FROM WHICH YOU CLICK ON THE PLAY BUTTON IN THE VIDEO IMAGE TO hot dogs, and a host of other pairs as either Jewish or Goyish.Ī SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS: THE VIDEO MAY NOT BE VIEWABLE DIRECTLYįROM THE EMAIL THAT YOU GET EACH DAY ON SOME COMPUTERS AND TABLETS. In this clip, Glazer and actor Josh Peck consider typing Elon Musk, piercings, arriving late vs. Notably, writer and producer Eliot Glazer has been posting a series of videos reviving the Jewish or Goyish question. Newer comedians have picked up the theme. If you live in Butte, Montana, you’re going to be Goyish even if you’re Jewish.” It doesn’t matter even if you’re Catholic if you live in New York, you’re Jewish. ![]() And never more so than when we realize that “Jewish”, for Bruce, didn’t even refer, necessarily, to Jews: “If you live in New York or any other big city, you are Jewish. Clearly, he was really poking fun at such categories. White bread and baton twirling, on the other hand, is distinctly “Goyish”. “Jewish”, he said, is stuff like pumpernickel and fruit salad. He saw the world as absurdly divided between things that were Jewish and things that were goyish. Just when you fear Mean Creek is taking the well-trod route, more interesting elements emerge, and the story evolves into a complex brew of guilt, fear, righteousness and empathy.It started with standup comedian Lenny Bruce back in the 1960s. But Estes has most distinguished himself by making a first movie with a singular voice. Stellar casting helps - Carly Schroeder, incongruously of The Lizzie McGuire Movie, in particular lends a gentle touch to the testosterone-heavy cast. Mean Creek has more similarities to other movies than it does differences, but it still feels like its own story. ![]() Like Bully, or last year’s Elephant, the kids of Mean Creek seem to exist in a world without parents, or with parents utterly oblivious to the often troubled lives of their children. Mean Creek recalls many movies with similar plots, including River’s Edge and the locally rooted Bully. Their scheme: a small boat trip culminating in a humiliating prank. Sam’s protective (and bored) older brother, Rocky (Trevor Morgan), and Rocky’s friend, swaggering alpha male Marty (Scott Mechlowicz), want to get revenge on George. The shy, slender middle-schooler is routinely tormented by George (Josh Peck), a sadistic but clearly disturbed fat kid who’s been held back a few grades. Rory Culkin, so arresting in Signs and You Can Count on Me that it’s easy to forget his older brother’s Home Alone reign of child-star terror, plays Sam. Estes, 31, channeled his rage and frustration over a personal incident seven years ago into this dark but strangely hopeful tale of a group of teens who conspire to play a trick on a bully. Mean Creek, a beautifully filmed and frequently stirring drama, is the first feature written and directed by the young Jacob Aaron Estes.
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