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The N.
by Herbert G. Luft
James Caan demonstrates his
skill as a frontier horseman
showing that he can handle an old-
fashioned gun, rope a steer and
ride with the best cowboys, in the
French Western movie, “Another
Man, Another Chance," by Claude
Lelouch, though he is a modern
young man from the borough of
Queens in New York.
Early he played basketball and
baseball. His athletic prowess
helped him to survive the tough
element of the neighborhood in
Sunnyside.
When he graduated at 16 from
Rhodes High School in
Manhattan, he was class president.
Wanting to become an actor but
fearing parental objections, he
took a summer job as athletic
director at a Catskill resort, soon
acquiring the added duties of a
social director and before long
emceeing floor shows at the hotel.
He enrolled at Michigan State
University, even though he felt out
of place in the Midwest as a New
York City Jewish kid. Caan played
freshman football and made the
swimming team. After transferring
to Hofstra College on Long Island
for his second year, where he
majored in pre-law, he took on
economics, business management
and history. He left school to
pursue an acting career,
supporting himself with outside
jobs.
Hanuka
by Trude B. Feldman
WASHINGTON—The White
House’s Oval Office was the scene
of a novel Hanuka ceremony. With
President Carter and delegates of
the Zionist Organizaiton of
America and its youth movement,
Masada, standing by, ZOA
President Rabbi Joseph P.
Sternstein kindled four candles on
a Hanuka menorah while
reciting—in Hebrew —the
blessings.
At the outset of the ceremony,
Yafit Muller, an 18-year-old
Israeli student and member of the
Young Maccabees—dressed in a
blue and white basketball warm
up suit—and Oded Solyom,
president of Masada, presented to
Jimmy Carter a Hanuka torch
which was brought from Israel.
(The 3-foot smoking torch was
kindled in Modi’in, the site where
the Maccabean revolt began in 168
BCE).
President Carter observed that
some 2100 years ago, the
Maccabees “fought for and
achieved a tremendous victory for
freedom. This was the first
occurence in the history of
humankind when the basic
struggle was for religious freedom.
“For the last 30 years this
struggle has been going on,” he
said. “And in recent weeks there
has been a tremendous
breakthrough in the search for
peace that we hope and pray will be
successful.
“I hope this ceremony will
Caan
Y. kid won the west
Caan auditioned for Sanford
Meisner and was accepted at the
Neighborhood Playhouse. His
professional debut was launched in
1961 with a nine month run of an
off-Broadway production of “La
James Caan
Ronde," augmented by several
segments of the New York-based
television series “Naked City."
After a series of TV roles in
“Route 66,” “Combat," “The
Untouchables,” “Wagon Train,"
“Ben Casey,” “Alfred Hitchcock
Presents," and “Dr. Kildare," he
was signed for his first feature role
in Hollywood, a sadistic heavy in
“Lady in a Cage," with Olivia Je
Havilland.
After half a dozen other parts in
period pictures and military
yarns, he jumped to stardom as the
villian opposite Simone Signoret
in “Games.” His first association
with Francis Ford Coppola came
with “The Rain People,” in which
he essayed the character of a brain
damaged ex-football star. After
two other top assignments, he
played the cancer-doomed
fullback of the Chicago Bears in
TV's “Brian’s Song.” He received
an Oscar nomination for the
portrayal of Sonny Corleone in
Coppola's “The Godfather," a
stunning performance.
He rendered a subtle
performance as Billy Rose in
“Funny Lady," was a toughy in
“Rollerball”; a small-time crook in
“Harry and Walter go to New
York"; and a battered World War
II GI in the current offering of “A
Bridge Too Far.”
And now he’s the frontier
veterinarian of 100 years ago
opposite Genevieve Bujold in the
Lelouch movie, a three-
dimensional characterization of a
man driven between his love for his
family and devotion to his
profession. The contrast between
the Westerner and the slick
Mafioso in “The Godfather” is
quite amazing. Seeing both parts,
one can appreciate the scope of
James Caan's talent.
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remind the world that Israel and
the U S. stand together in a spirit
of deep commitment of common
religious background and
common commitment to peace
and recognition of the great
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“This signifies the under
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their heroic battles for
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“Based on this, we look with
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the de-facto alliance between the
U.S. and Israel.”
Adding that Hanuka also
represents the miracle of the 4,000
years of Jewish history and of the
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noted: “The recent visit of Egypt’s
President Sadat to Jerusalem, and
the talks for peace in Cairo must be
seen in the same light of
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He concluded by telling
President Carter that history will
note -with gratitude—his role in
encouraging this miracle.
Masada's Ellen Meyers, of
Baltimore, gave the President the
traditional ‘dreidel’ for his ten-
year-old daughter Amy. “Amy will
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President told Ellen.
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