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Schmidt thinks him dull and laborious and, with the kind of bigotry that is the fermentation of social vintage, disapproves of his Jewishness.
If I sound sour compared with other critics, it's because I think Levinson missed a chance to get something unique and audacious on screen: the story of a thin-skinned Jewish kid who'd grow up to make autobiographical movies that somehow leave out the Jewishness and then get so enraged by a critic's offhand projection of Jewishness into a big WASPy sci-fi picture that he vows to go back and remake his other films with Jews instead of gentiles.
My Jewishness certainly includes support for Israel, although not always support for the policies of the government of Israel, and I have recommended a reduction in U.S. government financial aid for Israel.
So the current show at the Jewish Museum offers an opportunity both to re-evaluate Soutine's connection to de Kooning and Pollock and to dig more deeply into Soutine's relation to French culture and to his own Jewishness.
That idea is hilariously embodied by his best character, Van's friend Yussel (David Krumholtz), who starts a brawl when he gets his nose rubbed in his Jewishness at one WASP party and shows up for the next with his hair dyed blond and with a tale of Nordic ancestry.
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