Chossid meets hollywood

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I was amused, but maybe I'm weird...lol
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Oh, and Shaya Machanochovich? NO such name.
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Some parts were funny and some parts made me cringe. Whenever actors try to copy Chassidim I cringe because not only is it so fake, but because it's based on the stereotype that Chassidim are know-nothing-do-nothings, and I know very well that's not true.
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Posted: Wed, May 06 2009, 8:35 pm Post subject:

Posted: Wed, May 06 2009, 9:18 pm Post subject: re: Chossid meets hollywood

outright stupid! watz the point in this? Evil or Very Mad

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Mommastuff, they climb up all the way to the top of the hills where the hollywood sign is. it's not ont he youtube clip.

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yeah, I meant the black/shvigger joke.

oh and btw suddenly atop the mountain his payos are uncurled!

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Posted: Thu, May 07 2009, 10:53 am Post subject:

"bee" "are" "eee" "ech" "ech" "eee" "are" - that as a guy from our shul, ROTFLY
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Posted: Thu, May 07 2009, 11:30 pm Post subject: re: Chossid meets hollywood

I'm sorry, but DH and I thought it was hilarious!

We've seen Modi (he goes by his first name only) in NY comedy clubs before, and he's a riot!

I loved the true to life yiddish expressions, I don't see what's so offensive here.

Posted: Fri, May 08 2009, 12:44 pm Post subject: re: Chossid meets hollywood

well if it needs to be spelled out, having a chossid do all this stuff, dance with women, shake their hands... don't you see what's bad about that? He's doing stuff that are totally against halacha... it's degrading!

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the bit at the end is not part of the movie, it's the 'blooper reel'.

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Eh. I was neither mortally offended nor particularly amused, and the promo didn't make me want to rush out and see the film. Or even put my name on a waiting list for when it goes to video.

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Two previous posters questioned the kashrus of the drinks they were drinking. To set the record straight, they were at Coffee Bean. This is a chain similar to Starbucks. But, unlike Starbucks, all the Coffee Beans in LA and Orange counties are kosher, cholov stam. There is also one cholov yisroel location, but not the one they were at. So, in their defense, although they did not make a bracha (as far as we could see) the drinks were, in fact, kosher.