Profile: Peter the Great

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1133



Now, granted, Peter's ancestral Jew is about as far from today's Jew as an Eskimo, but... still.



The family tree (in Russian).



Big thanks to Alex from Maryland for the suggestion.

Profile: Jack Nicholson

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1132



This pretty much proves that one can dig up Jewish rumors on almost anybody... Except this guy, of course.

Profile: Itzhak Perlman

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1131



Perlman is a distant cousin of... Howie Mandel.



Perlman was suggested by Jacob from Bloomington, IL, Julie from Cleveland, Ruthie from Israel, Avi from Amstelveen, and Liza from Austin.

Profile: Elizabeth Israel

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1130



One of these days, I'm gonna make a world map and mark each country that has a JONJ profile associated with it.



So... Dominica, ladies and gentlemen!

Profile: Barney Ross

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1129



This wasn't planned, but a second Ross in a row? What are the odds?



I originally wanted to do this profile as comic panels, drawn, but then realized neither of us have ANY artistic ability.

Profile: Bob Ross

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1128



Yakov wanted this profile to be something fancy and interactive, where you'd be able to create your own happy little picture. Alas...

Profile: William Herschel

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1127



Esther from Canada asks us to profile John Herschel, "the discoverer of one of my favorite stars, Betelgeuse". If only I had a favorite star...



In any case, William was John's father.

Profile: Jason Kipnis

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1126



Kipnis was suggested by long-time, multiple-times-over returnee Bruce from Camrbdige, IL, as well as Eddie from New York, Dave from New Hampshire, and Eric from Cleveland.



Alas, dear readers. Alas.

Profile: Felonious Gru

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1124



Apparently, Yakov has not only been compared to Seth Rogen... But now to Gru as well. Go figure.



Gru was also suggested by Joshua from Atlanta and Anita from Northampton, MA.

Profile: Mel Blanc

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1125



I suggested to Yakov that we run Blanc on April Fools Day, with one line: "That's All, Folks!"... but... well, here it is... A perfect score!



Blanc was suggested by Miriam from Burbank, Alan from NYC, Dave from Canada, Don from LA, Mark from New York, Jason from Vancouver, and Allan from Southern Cal.

Profile: Marcello Mastroianni

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1123

Mastroianni is one of three actors to win the Best Actor award at Cannes twice. The others? Jack Lemmon and Dean Stockwell. Go figure.

Mastroianni was suggested by returning suggesters Mila from Alexandria and Alex from Maryland, as well as J K from Minneapolis.

Profile: David Schwarz

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1122

Schwarz's airship:

Profile: Fred Wilpon

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1120

Yakov wants to make sure this profile runs before Wilpon sells off even more of his team...

Profile: Leonard Susskind

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1121

Almost the perfect score here... But not quite. Can't hand them out to every comer, after all.

Susskind was suggested by returning suggester Mara from Kansas.

Profile: Charley Steiner

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1119

After leaving ESPN, Steiner did play-by-play for the Yankees and now the Dodgers.

Profile: Stephanie Zimbalist

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1118

I was always more of a Moonlighting fan than Remington Steele when it came to 80's "will they or won't they" mystery shows. But we're sans-Jews at the Blue Moon Detective Agency, so Zimbalist will have to do.

Profile: Olivia Wilde

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1117

Yeah, that's right I watched the O.C., what of it? Well, at least for 2 seasons, anyway. After that it all went downhill. Which, considering the whole point is that it was a guilty-bottom-of the-barrel-pleasure in the first place means... Well it dropped somewhere, by Hashem.

Anyway, I'm usually firmly against co-programming our profiles to events, but coincidentally Ms. Wilde's new movie is coming out today, so there ya go. RottenTomatoes is showing a 43% as of Thursday, and since the number always drops on the Friday release day that is...not good. On the other hand, the preview seems to suggest something of a nude scene, which, if true would suggest reviews and my likelihood of ticket purchasing will show a negative correlation.

Seriously, who could have imagined a movie named "Cowboys vs. Aliens" being dumb? Oh wait...

Olivia was suggested by Chaim from NY and Dee from Canada.

Profile: John von Neumann

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1115

Von Neumann was suggested by Leon from Israel, Sergei from Jersey City, Julius from the Philippines, and David from Hungary... Talk about an international following!

Profile: Mose Solomon

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1116

Solomon's career average is a sparkling .375... in two games. His fielding did him in. If only they had the DH in the 20s...

(See, Yakov, I don't hate baseball. I'm indifferent towards it. But some stories are rather interesting, no?)

Profile: Kathleen Turner

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1114

"Romancing the Stone" is great, but I gotta put "The Jewel of the Nile" near the top of the list of the most disappointing sequels of all time. After "Police Academy 2", of course.

Turner was suggested by Michael from Canada.