Word: persecutors
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...funny-peculiar. Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses) puts one of his pop-skulled, Mom-obsessed neurotics in a chateau on the Riviera during the night his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro. Jerry Orbach is wildly, excruciatingly believable as a modern victim-persecutor, one minute hiding under the coats in the closet, the next brandishing a threatening scythe at his enemy, the world at large...
...Make queens of 'em forever." Aaron is duly raped by a giant Negro senior citizen of this very bad boys' town. No queen, though, Aaron gets revenge by putting rat poison in the clam chowder. Unfortunately, he kills his best pal as well as his persecutor. But he no longer cares; he would rather earn kingly status, even if the price is the gas chamber...
...bizarre story, written by Playwright Robert Shaw,* is packed with comedy that is by turn bleak, black and breezy, but essentially it deals with identity: the identity of Jew and German, the persecuted and the persecutor, and of Christ as expiator. Arthur Goldman, a Jewish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, has immigrated to New York, where he has become a real estate millionaire. A strangely mixed character he is: gross, vulgar, warm, arrogant, funny, zestful. He is also strangely troubled, apparently fearful that he is being pursued by a man named Dorff, who had been a Nazi SS colonel...
...twice and once arrived on a stretcher. In the middle of his trial last January, he fired his lawyer, Frances Kahn, because she was a "prosecution spy" and took over his own defense. The detective who arrested him he called a "sadist." Assistant District Attorney Frank Rogers became the "persecutor." Judge Gellinoff was an "animal." Once, while cross-examining a prosecution psychiatrist, Kayo posed an hour-long hypothetical question. "Now, Doctor," he finally concluded, "assuming everything I said to be true, do you have an opinion as to whether District Attorney Rogers is crazy?" Improper, ruled the court wearily...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Cast by the Nazis as persecutor of a helpless old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska), a seriocomic Aryan nonentity (Josef Kroner) struggles against moral bankruptcy in a fine Czechoslovakian drama that reduces the march of history to events on a pathetically human scale...