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dress who falls in love with him and stays by his side for some time. “I like women, but they have to have their place”, says Ray. There’s also a dust up with some mafia hoods. Eventually he just sort of fades from the music scene. Herb thought it was one of Penn’s best roles. (Lots of cigarette smoking in this film, Naomi cautions.) A pleasant viewing experience.
• Liberty Heights: R, 128 minutes, 1999. This a coming of age film set in 1950’s Baltimore, by director Barry Levinson (“Diner”, “Tinmen” and “Avalon”). Focusing on a Jewish family whose dad (Joe Montegna) runs a burlesque house and runs numbers, the kids face incredible discrimination (the public swimming pool has a sign that says “No Dogs, Jews or Coloreds”) and other dramatic social issues of the time. The story’s narrator notes that “if you’re not Jewish, you’re the ‘other kind.”’
School integration is an issue of the moment, and a relationship develops between one of the first black girls in the high school, and the son of the numbers runner, with the expected explosive results, both on the side of the Jewish parents, as well as the black parents. Bebe Newirth (TV
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