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Up Front

September 22, 2005

Jewish Weddings in Space

By Ron Magid

Joss Whedon's quirky space Western, "Serenity," features outlaws who act like Wild West gunslingers, an assassin who forces his victims to commit hara kiri, a telepath who inexplicably goes berserk, a Buddhist planet -- and Jewish nuptials in space.

Based on Whedon's short-lived 2002 TV series, "Firefly," whose fan base helped spur the movie, "Serenity" revolves around the outlaws' attempts to discover the telepath's true identity after she beats up everyone in a bar.

Enter hacker broadcaster Mr. Universe (David Krumholtz), who plays the bar's security tapes for the renegades -- as well as a video of his wedding to a bimbo android. In one of the film's funniest moments, she looks on robotically as Krumholtz (CBS's "NUMB3RS") ecstatically stomps on a glass at the end of the Jewish ceremony.

Mr. Universe is not the first member-of-the-tribe character the non-Jewish Whedon, has created, says Jewhoo Editor Nate Bloom; his titular Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a sidekick named Willow Rosenberg, among other multicultural pals.

Whedon said he created "Serenity," which opens Friday, as a kind of "Wagon Train" in space. That's about how Gene Roddenberry described his conceit for the original "Star Trek" series. But unlike "Trek" and many other sci-fi works, "Serenity" depicts real, rather than invented, human religions. So while a Jewish wedding in space may sound offbeat, hey, just think of it as the final frontier for the Diaspora, though don't expect bubbe to approve of the intermarriage android thing.

 

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