Contents

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1. Eight Hundred Mamas and Papas

2. Tummling Among the Nazis

3. Are You for Real?

4. The Playboy and the Putz

5. Gunsels, Dames, and Screen Tests

6. The Importance of Being Seymour

9. The Stooge Turns

10. The Wonder Clown

11. The Other Shoe

12. One-Man Show

13. Today You Are a Man

14. The Jewish Bataan Death March

15. Lawrence of Bel Air

16. Frogs’ Legs and Pratfalls

17. Levitch’s Complaint

18. Shirley Temple in Auschwitz

19. A Defeated Jew

20. “Why Am I a Criminal?”

22. New Mirrors

Epilogue: J & I

A Note on Sources

Acknowledgments

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