Jewison Themes

 

""Drexel's gone under. 

 Milken's in jail.  

Trump's waiting tables". — 

 Lawrence Garfield (55:30 

"Other People's Money is a 1991 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Norman Jewison starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck and Penelope Ann Miller.  

It was adapted by screenwriter Alvin Sargent from the 1989 play " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_People%27s_Money 

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'If I Were a Rich Man" is a show tune from the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof.  

It was written by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock. The song is performed by Tevye, the main character in the musical, and reflects his aspirational dreams.

The title is inspired by a 1902 monologue by Sholem Aleichem in Yiddish, Ven ikh bin Rothschild (Yiddish: װען איך בין ראָטשילד; lit.  

“If I were a Rothschild”), a reference to the wealth of the Rothschild family, although the content is quite different. 

 The lyric is based in part on passages from Sholem Aleichem's 1899 short story "The Bubble Bursts." 

 Both stories appeared in English in the 1949 collection of stories Tevye's Daughters." 

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History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe explains that the song is based on a monologue from the stories of Sholem Aleichem entitled "If I were Rothschild", in reference to the wealthy Jewish banking family. 

The Grammar Devotional likens the phrase "if I were a rich man" 

 to the Cowardly Lion's 

 "if I were king of the forest" 

 in The Wizard of Oz;  

both songs involve a tongue-in-cheek comparison between the character's actual condition and the one they imagine. "  

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"The screenplay is based on the 1961 Nathaniel Benchley novel The Off-Islanders, and was adapted for the screen by William Rose.  

The title alludes to Paul Revere's midnight ride, as does the subplot in which 

 the town drunk (Ben Blue) 

 rides his horse to warn people of the "invasion"." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russians_Are_Coming,_the_Russians_Are_Coming

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"Judas is worried about Jesus' popularity; he is being hailed as the son of God, but Judas feels he has too much faith in his own message and fears the consequences of their growing movement.  

He calls out Jesus' association with the likes of Mary Magdalene (historically accused of being a prostitute), as well as the fact that Mary Magdalene uses sweet oil to soothe Jesus' skin, the money for which Judas thinks should have been spent on the poor. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar_(film)

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"2018, Jonathan E. is the team captain and veteran star of the Houston Rollerball team.  

Mr. Bartholomew, chairman of the Energy Corporation - 

 one of a series of corporations that now govern society - 

 and team sponsor, offers Jonathan a lavish retirement package if Jonathan will announce his retirement during an upcoming television special detailing his career." 

"Jonathan goes to a library, where he finds that all books have been digitized and edited to suit the corporations, 

 and are now stored on supercomputers  

at large protected corporate locations.  

Jonathan's friend and former coach Cletus, now an Energy executive, warns him that the Executive Committee is afraid of him, though he cannot find out why.," 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film) 

"Jonathan's popularity and longevity as a player threaten the underlying agenda of Rollerball: 

 to demonstrate the futility of individualism."