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It's not
so strange. Take a few seconds and you can probably think of
three straight off. How about Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Jerry
Lewis.
All feature throughout the Out of Sight festival.
There's
a triple dose of Woody Allen with screenings of Sleeper,
Annie Hall and Mahattan.
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of the stars of Jewish comedy - Woody Allen |
You can
live again the famous bean sequence in Mel Brooks' Blazing
Saddles. And if you want to see how they did things before
Eddie Murphy got his hands on the script, there's the Jerry
Lewis original of The Nutty Professor.
The season
reflects Jewish talent throughout the twentieth century. From
1935, the Marx Brothers star in A Night At the Opera. A
year later came one of the most successful musicals in the history
of Yiddish cinema - Yiddle With His Fiddle.
Bringing
events right up to date, there's a showing of Leon the Pig
Farmer. This is the story of a young Jew who discovers he's
the product of artificial insemination but who also finds out
that some mixed up test tubes resulted in his true father being
a Yorkshire pig farmer.
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