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The Filmmakers Behind “The Extra Man”

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywoodjew/item/the_filmmakers_behind_the_extra_man_20100809

The impoverished, self-styled aristocrat who mentors Jonathan Ames’ alter ego in his novel, “The Extra Man” (now a movie starring Kevin Kline), thinks women should know their place. “The women I like best are the ones in Williamsburg. The Hasidic women,” the imperious Henry Harrison opines in Ames’ 1998 novel. “They seem to have the right touch. They wear gingham gowns like Mary Pickford. But I don’t like the men’s costumes at all. It’s not very attractive to wear your hair in pigtails, and the black hats aren’t very good.”

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