26 July 2009

Yoo-who?

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

Crit

This puts me in mind of Zelig: an ostensible documentary about someone famous years ago but now sunken into utter obscurity. Except that Gertrude Berg really existed, and the character she portrayed in radio and on television was equally real to huge audiences, including many for whom the program provided an introduction to positive and nonstereotypical Jewish-American life.

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