Choosing the Chosen People
Beans, beans, the magical fruit... Wait, no. Not exactly a fruit. And definitely not magical. Besides, which type of beans are we even talking about? Lima beans, pinto beans, fava beans, mung beans (rancid!), soy beans, navy beans (which are not navy at all), your regular black, red, and green beans...
If you browse the rosters for the inaugural 1930 World Cup, you will find such lovely club names as Lawn Tennis (Peru), President Hayes (yes, named after Rutherford B. Hayes, beloved in Paraguay!), Holley Carburetor (Detroit; where else?), Maccabi Bucharest (Romania)... With all apologies to the mighty Carburetors, we're gonna talk about that last one.
We weren't going to watch "The Devil Wears Prada 2", by all accounts a rather unnecessary sequel to a 20-year-old film, but then we did like the original, and it does star the always-lovely Anne Hathaway, and it would give us a chance to profile director David Frankel. (Although, what has he done other than the Prada films? Nothing exciting.)
Reuben: Welcome to the second meeting of the No Josephs club, I, as the eldest, will be presiding. Naphtali, why don't you summarize the minutes from the first meeting?
Is Charlie Hall Jewish?
We enjoyed "Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed" on Apple TV, but star Tatiana Maslany is not remotely Jewish, so what are we to do, NOT write about a show we just finished? Well, the character of Geri is played by Kiarra Hamagami Goldberg...
We were watching the limited series version of "Cape Fear" on Apple (say what you want about remakes, and we have, but this one is excellent), when one of those "Hey, it's THAT guy!"s appeared in a minor role as a psychiatrist. So we did what we have done for the past two decades: paused the show,
Is Beno Gutenberg Jewish?
Our internet travels took us to a woman named Mary Katherine Cummings, "a Hungarian-born American outlaw, gambler, prostitute". A good start, to say the least. She was the "longtime companion" of Doc Holiday and was known as Big Nose Kate. We mean...
We get dozens of profile suggestions every week, and it's just impossible to research (we do research?) and write about them all. So here is an important tip: