At 12:35 PM -0400 10/14/02, Ken Hirsch wrote:

>On "Fiddler on the Roof" director Norman Jewison:
>>  My friend Denys will be delighted to know that this film was
>>  directed by a Canadian.  But then, again, I suspect that Denys
>>  already knew this (he is a connoisseur and he has recommended
>>  excellent movies to me).  I am just 30 years behind :-)
>
>Herb Caen once wrote:
>   Have you heard...
>     Norman Jewison isn't!
>
>I heard Jewison say on NPR that he thinks that the producers believed
>he was Jewish when they hired him, although he isn't sure.

In the documentary (on the other side of the DVD), Topol said that the
actors were joking about changing the name "Norman Jewison" to
"Norman Christianson" :-)

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