Snappy Comeback OTD

[jbsegal]

Mandy Patinkin in the 1996 documentary "Leonard Bernstein's New York":
"I don't think one could do anything more appropriate than doing a West Side Story Today with a Jewish guy trying to be in love with a black girl and placing it in Brooklyn."

Me: Yeah, because violent Jewish street gangs are so common these days.

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[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

That continues to be really funny :)

[merde.livejournal.com]

GOD i wish i knew Hebrew or Yiddish so i could make some sort of desperately witty comment here.

[avram]

Ken MacLeod's Newton's Wake makes a passing reference to a (centuries in the future) version of West Side Story that features a gunfight between the Bush and Bin Laden families.

[bluepapercup]

feet!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, because violent Jewish street gangs are so common these days.
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[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

She was Italian and the neighborhood was Bed-Sty, but wasn't that movie called Jungle Fever?