Carl Reiner
Bronx-born David Kokolovitz, yearning to become a matinee idol in the tradition of Ronald Colman, has a family, a girlfriend and friend at the Foreman Sewing Machine Works. In 1940, at age eighteen, he says good-bye to all that and heads for the Deep South, where opportunity knocks in the form of the Avon Shakespearean Repertory Company. Transforming himself into Don Coleman, David discovers the hazards of too-tight tights and too-long soliloquies,
...7) The Dybbuk
In the folklore of Eastern European Jewry, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to rest in the body of a living person. In this case, the dybbuk is an impoverished student that possesses a young bride on her wedding day. She is taken to a great Chassidic rabbi for exorcism. But before he can expel the spirit, the sage must discover who the dybbuk was in life, why he has possessed the maiden, and most importantly, how to balance the scales of
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