There's a movie with Mickey Katz as a character? I clearly missed a memo. Thank you for that! I'll have to seek it out.
There is certainly a movie with a Mickey Katz as a character—I am not sure he's related to Joel or Jennifer Grey, but he sings the best version of "Toot-Toot-Tootsie, Goodbye" I have ever heard, backed by three Russian close-harmony singers and incorporating shout-outs from at least half a dozen classics of Yiddish theater or film. Also, his spiel about zakuski. In case it is not obvious, I recommend Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia to you without reservation; I think you will like the theatrical parts, the ethnographic parts, and the parts it's difficult to describe but which are wonderful. It is funny and queer and numinous and it has camels. I don't know if it resembles anything else Ulrike Ottinger ever made except Taiga (1992), but the genus of which it may be suum is a great one.
Also, what a great TOC! Looking forward to reading everyone's poems, including yours!
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There is certainly a movie with a Mickey Katz as a character—I am not sure he's related to Joel or Jennifer Grey, but he sings the best version of "Toot-Toot-Tootsie, Goodbye" I have ever heard, backed by three Russian close-harmony singers and incorporating shout-outs from at least half a dozen classics of Yiddish theater or film. Also, his spiel about zakuski. In case it is not obvious, I recommend Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia to you without reservation; I think you will like the theatrical parts, the ethnographic parts, and the parts it's difficult to describe but which are wonderful. It is funny and queer and numinous and it has camels. I don't know if it resembles anything else Ulrike Ottinger ever made except Taiga (1992), but the genus of which it may be suum is a great one.
Also, what a great TOC! Looking forward to reading everyone's poems, including yours!
Enjoy!