Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1962 Page: 11 of 12
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Our Film Folk
BY HERBERT G. LUFT
Copyright 1962 by JTA
HOLLYWOOD- Danny Kaye
currently stars in “The Man From
The Diners’ Club,” a movie
which shrewdly combines mer-
chandising promotions with old-
fashioned, time-tested slapstick
and seems destined to make a
mint for both the comedian and
his studio. The cops-and-robber
yarn by Wiliam Peter Blatty is
a re-hash of all the old Danny
Kaye pictures of the last 20
years, telling us of a gangster
who trying to escape the country
switches his identity with an
employee from the Diners’ Club
thereby scheming to have his
double knocked off at the end.
The picture actually focuses
on the misuse of such a Diners’
Club credit card. Mobster Pul-
ardos (Telly Savalas) charges
everything, including automobile
rides and his final trip abroad
via jet airliner, against an ac-
count okayed by the nitwitted
Ernie Klenk (Danny Kaye) who
actually is no asset to the world-
renowned credit organization.
The promotional department
of Columbia Pictures worked
overtime preparing the multiple
tieup gimmicks between the stu-
dio and the Diners’ Club whose
far-flung operations inspired the
movie story. For the first time,
actual names of products are
being used on a large scale and
the companies involved will
launch huge advertising cam-
paigns announcing that they are
a partner in the bold venture.
A large dress manutfadturing
company is plugging its goods
without shame and so is The
National Florists Association.
Danny Kaye seems quite en-
thusiastic about the whole idea.
He posed for a special picture
to be used by Diners’ Club on
its envelopes to the worldwide
membership. The club will put
up 10,000 posters and displays
in key places around the coun-
try with Kaye’s photo and the
caption: “Danny Kaye is the
Man From The Diners’ Club.
Are You?”
In addition, a national con-
test will be sponsored, on a
coast-to-coast network, in which
the winner takes a trip around
the world and uses his Diners’
Club card for unlimited credit
to live like a king. Additional
prizes will be awarded through-
out the country.
The physical production of
the motion picture afforded the
full cooperation of the Diners’
Club facilities. There will be
more visual gags than one would
find in a penny arcade. In one
scene, Danny Kaye is checking
the giant IBM card machines. He
gets caught in one of the con-
traptions, which causes thous-
ands of lights to flash off and
on, culminating with the whole
set-up collapsing. Actually 850,-
000 Diners’ Club cards were
j used as Kaye got entangled with
the machinery and is buried un-
derneath an avalanche of paper.
The sequence resembles the one
of Chaplin in “Moaern Times,”
in which the comedian also
struggled against a man-made
mechanical monster. In the cur-
rent movie, The Diners Club
as well as the companies sup-
! plying the intricate equipment
do not mind kidding around
with their own system gleefully
pointing out its shortcomings.
Frank Tashlin, who has guid-
ed numerous Jerry Lewis pic-
tures, is directing the comedy in
which Danny Kaye shares billing
with Telly Savalas (Whom the
Foreign Press most recently gave
an awards nomination); Cara
Williams (Academy nominee of
1958 for “The Defiant Ones”),
star of the TV series “Pete and
Gladys” — a luscious redhead
luring Ernie Klenk alias Kaye
into mischief. Another of Hol-
lywood’s cuties, Martha Hyer,
portrays a fellow employee at
ie Diners’ Club office. Everett
Hoane plays the president of
the credit organization; Kaye
WHY? Because.
QUESTION: Why does the
Jewish law prohibit tattooing?
ANSWER: Tie basis of this
prohibition is the verse in the
Bible (Leviticus 19:28) where
it is expressly stated that one
shall not make any marks upon
one’s self. The rabbis have in-
Stevens, Howard Gaine and Ann
Guilbert are seen in featured
parts. For the hilarious finale,
15 beauty contest winners lend
their charm to the staccato-pac-
ed proceedings of the chase.
William Bloom, who handled
the production reins of the un-
pretentious comedy, says that in
recent times there have been a
flood of movies with problem
themes and heavy psychological
overtones. “It’s getting so that
the psychiatrists of America can
hold their conventions in theatre
lobbies. However, there are mil-
lions of people who say they
have enough problems of their
own without acquiring new ones
when they go into the theatre
for entertainment.”
“The Man From The Diners’
Club” is such a strictly escapist
entertainment piece. Producer
Bloom believes in pictures that
result in a studio laughing all
the way to the bank; and Danny
Kaye, who shares in the re-
venue, is not unhappy about
such a premise.
Thursday,November 15,1962 Texas Jewish Post Ft. Worth-Page 11
i terpreted this prohibition as a and for women to dress as men?
demonstration of the fact that ANSWER* This is openly for-
man is “the image of the Crea-j bidden in the Bible (Deutero-
nomy 22:5). The commentaries
group this prohibition with
many prohibitions that prevent
man from erasing the divisions
tor” and that an act of tat-
too would constitute a mutila-
tion of something Holy. Fur-
thermore, both the body and
soul of man belong to the Al- j made by nature in the universe,
mighty, and man is responsible j Dbviously nature, by Divine Pro-
to guard both against damage, j vidence, determined that there
It also seems clear that tat- shall be a difference between
tooing was a form of pagan wor-l the male and the female. When
eh ip in times of old, and the : one sex dresses in the clothes
Israelites were forbidden to copy of the other, it is regarded
these pagan customs. j as a defiance of the laws of
nature and the will of the Al-
QUESTION: Why it is custo- mighty. Some sources point to
mary to smear the contents of! the fact that dressing the sexes
a broken egg with its shell upon in the garb of their opposite
the head of a corpse? j was a tactic used in some earh
ANSWER: In a sense this sym- primitive tribes in t'heir magic
bolizes the cycle of life and rites. The Israelites were pro-
death inasmuch as the original j hibited from copying those idol-
egg was a living organism and I atrous practices,
the broken egg interrupted its i
life’s span. Furthermore, it is'
claimed that the life of man |
is only a potential to his ac-
tual life after death, as the eggi
is to the chicken that breaks
out of it later. The broken egg
symbolizes the transition of life
from the earthly stage to the I
heavenly stage. The egg also
symbolizes man’s dreams and j
aspirations which are broken at
his demise.
QUESTION: Why is it prohi-
bited for men to dress as women
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