Jews without Mitzvos

 What actor or actress passed on a script that could have made them a powerhouse in Hollywood?

James Caan, who recently died at 82, had a bad habit of turning down roles that made others a star, often earning them an Oscar or an Oscar nomination.

For instance, he turned down 3 roles that Richard Dreyfuss took, including “Close Encounter of the Third Kind,” “The Good Bye Girl,” and “What About Bob?” He also passed on the Oscar-winning role that earned Jack Nicholson an Oscar in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Another such role was Dustin Hoffman’s lead in “Kramer versus Kramer.”

Caan was originally considered to play Michael Corleone (the studio wanted him or Robert Redford) but ultimately moved to the Sonny Corleone role. Other roles that it was said that Jimmy Caan did not get were the role of Han Solo in “Star Wars.” Caan was asked about appearing in “Apocalypse Now” only to have his agent say he would do so only if they paid him $1 million to read the script. That role—-a small one—then went to Harrison Ford.

When Jimmy Caan was offered the lead role in “Misery,” he took it because Jack Nicholson had just turned it down, and he remembered the previous mis-step in not taking “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” I cover more on Jimmy Caan’s uncanny ability to shoot his undeniable acting prowess in the foot on my WeeklyWilson blog.

Caan was born on March 26, 1940, in The Bronx, New York City, to Sophie (née Falkenstein; 1915–2016)^[3] and Arthur Caan (1909–1986), Jewish immigrants from Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland, Germany.^[4][5][6] His father was a kosher meat dealer.^[7]

Sadia Kahn says

 “Expectations should come from our lived experiences. If they are coming from vicarious experiences that you’ve seen online, they are not realistic. Just take them out of your mind because they’ll keep you single.”

careful now

 If you don't prepare for a career that's to your liking, if you spend every penny on yeshiva and all day in 'learning' you might wind up like this:

jews without mitzvos

 Arthur Miller was a cold-hearted intellectual who never loved Marilyn Monroe.

He never even bothered to show up at her Los Angeles funeral.

——-“To me it was meaningless to stand for photographs at her graveside.”——-

Miller did not want to be part of the media frenzy that developed around her funeral.

He was disgusted by the attention that came with a movie star on Marilyn Monroe’s scale.

Over the years, there have been suggestions that Miller married Marilyn for her money or for the good publicity to counteract his refusal to name

Communists to The House Un-American Activities Committee.

On the other hand, Joe DiMaggio was inconsolable at her funeral, weeping uncontrollably, leaning over Marilyn’s casket, kissing her on the lips,

and whispering,———-“I love you, I love you”.

The grief stricken baseball star ordered 6 long stemmed roses, three times a week to placed on her grave….forever.

To Marilyn Monroe fans, it is a long, heart-breaking subplot, a tale of two very different ex-husbands.

nice goyim

 I owned a carpet cleaning business in the 2000s. i cleaned a house and the womans son had just died in the marines in the middle east. she asked me if i liked comic books because her son had a collection and she had no use or interest. i askerd her how many he had, she said ALL OF THEM. she to me to a room and it was filled. all 4 walls and islands in the middle. i asked what she was going to do. she was an older lady and was gonna just give it all away. i asked her to please not do that. i called a friend and he called a friend, the old girl got over 100k for all of it.

nuts

The response of the typical frum person to any criticism of israel even in Gaza reveals the insanity that plagues the yeshiva world. In case you didn't notice, they are insane about everything. There is no area where they are normal whether it be the cold bloodedness of shiduchim, marriage as happy wife happy life, i.e. indulging the wife, dating resumes that tell you only where the brother learns, this mad notion of having a rav to run your life when he knows nothing about you, pilpul as the only acceptable Torah study, not studying Hebrew as a language while telling you to do nothing in life other than study, not having a way of earning a parnassah even though you need $200,000 a year to survive, excommunicating anybody who disagrees with them, boys wearing a hat on top of their tefillin, the boring clothing of the men, sitting the bochur across from the wife at the shabbos table, the oversized black hats, unhealthy diet with no exercise, having young men marry at 23 when their sex drives are roaring from age 16 even as masturbation is regarded as the worst sin, shiurim consisting of a guy reading from a book and doing it by racing through the Hebrew and then the English, school principals who don't work with parents but simply announce that "I consult with gadolim," the entire idea of gadolim as these perfect all-knowing beings, labeling every rabbi as a gaon, parnassah without any regard for job satisfaction, pushing away mitzvos and making the entire religion about pilpul, leaving the young women with nothing to do but sleep until noon on Shabbos, religion devoid of consciousness of God, pushing the average guy to study 16 hours a day, telling each boy that if he only tries hard enough he can be a gadol and if he isn't a gadol it's because he didn't try, $80,000 weddings, regarding the entire human race and most of Jewry with disdain, relentless verbal abuse by rabbis particularly of anybody with a question, interfering with the religious derech of anybody who doesn't want to be yeshivish and even those that do, viewing themselves as superior to every baal teshuvah and convert despite the evidence of who really is superior, constantly contradicting people and arguing with them, pretending to know the insides of people that there's something wrong with them, not having any sense of humor, obsessing about barely existent anti-semitism and exaggerating 'esau soneh yaakov into an absurdity, having 3 hour Shabbos meals which consist of lingering at the table and playing with food remains, insisting that everybody live in NY or Israel when houses cost $1 million, taking 1/2 an hour for weekday Maariv, burying the young women in homework and trying to turn them into yeshiva guys in any way they can outside of learning Gemara, being ignorant about the dangers of aliyah or in the case of Modern Litvish pushing everyone to move there. There's no area where they are normal, so why would you expect normalcy when they talk about Israel and Gaza?

Why are they like this? It's because they don't have mitzvos and don't have Hashem. For them, Judaism is lomdus only, so they go mad. Mitzvos give you a sane life. Hashem gives you a focus.