Bernstein interviewed 25 mothers of Jewish people, including Clara Sussman, mother of Rosalyn Yalow, a Nobel Medalist in medicine. Like other mothers in the book, Clara, who died recently, exemplified a life of hard work and sacrifice, as well as worry about her child when a teacher told her Rosalyn was a genius. ("I never met the man Einstein but I heard he was a little peculiar.") The author says Leah Adler, mother of film director Steven Spielberg, was the funniest person he'd ever met, and readers will agree. With obvious love and pride, she kvetches about bringing up a peculiar son ("I didn't know what the hell he was"). There are reports on rock stars, a lawyer, playwright and other achievers and at least two people more notorious than famous: porn film star Harry Reems and yippie ex-convict Abbie Hoffman.
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Bernstein interviewed 25 mothers of Jewish people, including Clara Sussman, mother of Rosalyn Yalow, a Nobel Medalist in medicine. Like other mothers in the book, Clara, who died recently, exemplified a life of hard work and sacrifice, as well as worry about her child when a teacher told her Rosalyn was a genius. ("I never met the man Einstein but I heard he was a little peculiar.") The author says Leah Adler, mother of film director Steven Spielberg, was the funniest person he'd ever met, and readers will agree. With obvious love and pride, she kvetches about bringing up a peculiar son ("I didn't know what the hell he was"). There are reports on rock stars, a lawyer, playwright and other achievers and at least two people more notorious than famous: porn film star Harry Reems and yippie ex-convict Abbie Hoffman.First serial to People and Interview.
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More like other mothers only more so,
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Bernstein appears to like the Hollywood entertainment types, and so the mothers he choses for his little interviews and stories are the mothers of Spielberg, Bob Dylan, Gene Simmons, and another twenty or so other 'stars'. In his introduction Bernstein makes the claims that Jewish mothers are like all other mothers but only more so, that is in the caring, worrying, pushing end of things. It was interesting to hear the mother of Bob Dylan stand up for him and for whatever turn he happened to take, religious-wise, or any other wise.
This stuff especially consider the great weight of most of the personalities included is 'fluff' but it is pleasant fluff. It is also nice that Bernstein has a chapter on his own mother who he pays tribute to.
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The restaurant could only be in California: shingled on the outside, kosher on the inside, it is the unlikely domain of Leah Adler, a petite blond godsend whose responsibilities include planning the menus, greeting the guests, and whenever her son has a new movie out, hanging the posters. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Eddie Fisher, Sonny Boy, Steven Spielberg, Harry Reems, Los Angeles, United States, Elizabeth Taylor, World War, Adam Rich, Fran Lebowitz, Fraydele Oysher, Lisa Birnbach, Neil Sedaka, Ruth Lebowitz, Abbie Hoffman, Coney Island, Deep Throat, Eleanor Sedaka, Florence Hoffman, Fred Bernstein, Hollywood Hills, Irving Wallace, Leah Greenburg, Marilyn Michaels New!
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The restaurant could only be in California: shingled on the outside, kosher on the inside, it is the unlikely domain of Leah Adler, a petite blond godsend whose responsibilities include planning the menus, greeting the guests, and whenever her son has a new movie out, hanging the posters. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Eddie Fisher, Sonny Boy, Steven Spielberg, Harry Reems, Los Angeles, United States, Elizabeth Taylor, World War, Adam Rich, Fran Lebowitz, Fraydele Oysher, Lisa Birnbach, Neil Sedaka, Ruth Lebowitz, Abbie Hoffman, Coney Island, Deep Throat, Eleanor Sedaka, Florence Hoffman, Fred Bernstein, Hollywood Hills, Irving Wallace, Leah Greenburg, Marilyn Michaels New!
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- Social Studies by Fran Lebowitz on page 141, and page 145
- Laughter in the Rain: My Own Story by Neil Sedaka on page 64, and page 65
- Metropolitan Life (Plume) by Fran Lebowitz on page 141, and page 145
- Torch Song Trilogy (Signet) by Harvey Fierstein on page 129
- The Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky on page 85
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- For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman by Jonah Raskin on page 9, and Back Matter
- Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- American Jewish Filmmakers (2d ed.) by David Desser in Back Matter
- Sights on the Sixties (Perspectives on the Sixties) by Barbara L. Tischler in Back Matter
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