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Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Description: Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930 s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
Director: Walter Bernstein
Actors: Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart
Rating: 6.4
Oscars 2021: Jewish nominees (nearly) strike out
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Sacha Baron Cohen poses in humorous fashion for a photo during a screening of the Oscars in Sydney, Australia, April 25, 2021 in Sydney, Australia.
(JTA) - It was an unusual Academy Awards in several ways.
Forced to adapt to social distancing protocols, the ceremony was split into different venues but mostly took place in Los Angeles Union Station. For only the second time in history, a woman won best director - and the first woman of color at that, as the award went to Chloe Zhao for Nomadland, which also won best picture. And then there was Glenn Close s meme-able dance to the self-explanatory 1988 song Da Butt.
The article was provoked by the recent controversy surrounding the decision by publisher W.W. Norton, in response to unsubstantiated allegations of sexual misconduct, to remove Blake Bailey’s biography of novelist Philip Roth from print, essentially to “pulp” the book.
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