Oprah’s Holocaust Hi Jinx
One of Oprah’s favorite books has turned out to be a fraud (again). What are some of the major inaccuracies in Herman Rosenblat’s now discredited Holocaust-era romance, Angel at the Fence?
10. The no-holds-barred football game between the prison guards and a rag-tag group of inmates.
9. Rosenblat’s jive-talking African-American sidekick, Detroit Jones.
8. The insistence that his future wife sustained him by tossing only delicious Mott’s brand Apple-Cinnamon Fun Packs over the fence.
7. Rosenblat’s claim that he did Hitler’s taxes in exchange for a new prison library and some beer for his fellow inmates.
6. The constant misspelling of the word “Hon-ik-a.”
5. Rosenblat’s repeated boasting that he “shtupped” a young Elizabeth Taylor after the camp’s annual Springtime Ball.
4. The fact Angel at the Fence is actually a reference to Rosenblat’s reported visions of Androstene-fueled spirits roaming the outfield of the Tel Aviv Angels of Anaheim baseball stadium.
3. The constant depiction of Rosenblat as a Christ figure; particularly during the scene where, on a dare, he eats fifty pieces of bacon.
2. Rosenblat’s claim that while in the camp he was bunkmates with hall-of-fame pitcher Sandy Koufax.
1. The climactic scene where Roseblat and his wife escape death by keeping their eyes firmly shut as the camp commandant opens the Arc of the Covenant.
Well, I figured this would be a lot more offensive.
Happy New Year.
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One of the major themes of the book, Love, is actually not real.
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Hey Fatbottom, Happy Queer Year to you and yours!
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FUck you IF.
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Hey Fatbottom, I will kill you and your adopted Vietnamese infant, but I will allow your homosexual live-in partner to live so that he may share the tale of my vengeance to those who dare challenge me on a mid-level comedy website comment board.
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And by the way, I have nothing better to do on New Year’s Eve than to check in and see if you have the balls to respond to my iron-fisted comments. Fuck you.
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Jesus fucking christ, I.F.
I don’t know why I come back here.
At any rate, eat shit and die of AIDS you stupid cunt.
Happy New Year.
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Fatbottom, you cannot contract AIDS by eating shit. Who’s the stupid cunt now?
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Fister,
“…you cannot contract AIDS by eating shit…”
But you can by stabbing it. Hi-hoooooo!
danger crevices makes an excellent point. “Love” (lol) is a fucking psychosis. So is religion. And MTV.
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I didn’t say you had to get the AIDS from eating the shit. I just said I wanted you to eat shit, and then die of AIDS, in that order. So I guess you’re still the stupid cunt, I.F.
Shit Sandwich makes an excellent point. He should know, since “Shit” is in his name.
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SHit, I posted that last one, not I.F.
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Fatbottom, I see that you have decided to post under my handle. Did you watch Faceoff last night and realize that the only way to defeat me is to become me? Well guess what, I never saw that movie (just the trailer) so I don’t know how it ends. What I do know is that posting under the wrong name is something a stupid cunt would do.
Shit Sandwich, what are your thoughts on hate, fairy tales and VH1? I’m for ‘em!
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Look, IF, I don’t know who the fuck you are trying to impress. Shit Sandwhich, whoever the fuck that is? Me? The assholes who run this site? Who?
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I would never seek to impress someone named Fatbottom. I would only seek to destroy that person.
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The Rosenblat story is so sad. Why is Atlantic Pictures making a film based on a lie? Why didn’t Oprah check the story out before publicizing it, especially after James Frey and given that many bloggers like Deborah Lipstadt said in 2007 that the Rosenblat’s story couldn’t be true.
Genuine love stories from the Holocaust do exist. My favorite is the one about Dina Gottliebova Babbitt – the beautiful young art student who painted Snow White and the Seven Dwarves on the children’s barracks at Auschwitz to cheer them up. This painting became the reason Dina and her Mother survived Auschwitz. After the end of the war, Dina applied for an art job in Paris. Unbeknownst to Dina, her interviewer was the lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They fell in love and got married. It’s such a romantic love story. Another reason I love Dina’s story is the tremendous courage she had to paint the mural in the first place. Painting the mural for the children caused her to be taken to Dr. Mengele, the Angel of Death. She thought she was going to be gassed, but bravely she stood up to Mengele and he made her his portrait painter, saving herself and her mother from the gas chamber.
Dina’s story is also verified to be true. Some of the paintings she did for Mengele in Auschwitz survived the war and are at the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum. The story of her painting the mural of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on the children’s barrack has been corroborated by many other Auschwitz prisoners, and of course her love and marriage to the animator of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the Disney movie after the war in Paris is also documented.
Why wasn’t the Rosenblatt’s story checked out before it was published and picked up to have the movie made?? I would like to see true and wonderful stories like Dina’s be publicized, not these hoax tales that destroy credibility and trust.
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Brian,
In all fairness to Oprah (I never thought I’d say that), she publicized this well before the James Frey thing. I think it was back in the 90’s. That being said, fuck her!
I.F. and FatBottom,
Thanks for all of the comments. Stay classy.
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Hey Brian, you know what is sad? Posting a four paragraph diatribe (only three of which are properly indented) about “the Rosenblat story” on a comedy website. How the fuck did you link into this article? Even Fatbottom thinks your an asshole.
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Do you just sit and wait for people to comment on here, I.F.? At least I get an email alert when we get comments. What’s your excuse?
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I think I.F. has an unhealthy fascination with this site. I just pop in now and again to see if it’s going to get any better (or any worse).
Although I.F. is right, I do think Brain is an asshole.
But I think everyone on this board is an asshole, so he’s in good company.
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Brian,
Do you hear that?
*puts hand to ear*
It’s the whistle for the last train to douche town. All aboard, motherfucker.
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Also,
You know how you could tell Frey was lying? He talked like a pillow biter yet had these grandiose stories where he was all “hard” and shit. Give me a break. Ass-spelunking does not make a boy a man.
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Hey Jimmy Jihad, shut the fuck up and come with more content motherfucker. I’m tired of having to provide all the punchlines around here. However, I will take your advice and stay classy… cuntfoot.
Hey Shit Sandwich, I like your style. However, you are a commentor on this board and therefore my sworn enemy. I have a simple two-word review of you: Shark Sandwich.
And last, but certainly least, Hey Fatbottom, at least I don’t have an unhealthy fascination with my mother’s clitoris like you.
See you on the next article motherfuckers.
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