woody on allen, american apparel, and then they came for us, the jews

American Apparel Wants The Jewish Dollar

Dov "There's A Bulge in My Hand" Charney of American Apparel seems to be eschewing his early aesthetic of working-pink girls for that of rebbes, or at least Woody Allen dressed as a rebbe. At first we thought this ad, on the corner of Houston and Allen, was a rabbi and we did not speak out. Then we lost a $50 bet that it was Woody Allen dressed as a rabbi. We thought perhaps the ad was an erectile-geographical pun (in that order) and we did not speak out. Then Curbed alerted us to its appearance in LA and still we did not speak out. So now, we're making up for our silence the only way we know how: with horrifying Photoshop.

—josh

6:36 PM on Tue May 15 2007
By Joshua Stein
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Clevertrousers at 05:51 PM on 05/15/07
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Don't Want!
Larry Forney at 05:52 PM on 05/15/07
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:(
lovelyday at 05:59 PM on 05/15/07
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I lurve it.
TedSez at 06:00 PM on 05/15/07
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That picture is from the scene in Annie Hall where Diane Keaton's Nazi-ish Midwestern grandmother looks at sophisticated urbanite Alvy Singer and can't see him as anything but a shtetl-dwelling Yid.

I can't imaging what Charney is going for with this image.... Except that maybe the caption, which means something like "The Holy Rabbi," indicates that he's praising Allen as the king of the Jews, or the schmatte-makers, or something. (Or maybe he just admires anyone known for using his creative powers for getting young ladies into bed.)
Maxwell2.0 at 06:00 PM on 05/15/07
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actual, searing physical pain in my eyeballs
Gwinny at 06:02 PM on 05/15/07
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Gwinny at 06:03 PM on 05/15/07
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Ha. I guess photos aren't an option in the comments section.
Flashman at 06:08 PM on 05/15/07
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It's a heartwarming message of inclusivity. He's saying that Hasidic duds are also American Apparel
Clevertrousers at 06:12 PM on 05/15/07
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@Flashman: What about box office duds?
narnio at 06:29 PM on 05/15/07
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nullus?
Thaddeus Kosciuszko at 06:30 PM on 05/15/07
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@Gwinny: just don't close the tag...
Flashman at 06:40 PM on 05/15/07
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@Clevertrousers: Well no, I don't think they would have used a still from Curse of the Jade Scorpion.
Annie Hall though is irreproachable.
Gwinny at 07:41 PM on 05/15/07
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@Thaddeus Kosciuszko: oh. thanks!
the earl grey at 07:45 PM on 05/15/07
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"Youre what Grammy Hall would call 'a Real Jew' "
Seeräuber Jenny at 08:32 PM on 05/15/07
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Why, why'd Jew do that?

(Which movie was that?)
Seeräuber Jenny at 08:37 PM on 05/15/07
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@Flashman:

I dunno. Annie Hall made Eric Schaeffer possible. (Terminal solipsism)

To me the irreproachables would be:

Hannah and her Sisters
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Radio Days
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Zelig
lady-zorro at 08:37 PM on 05/15/07
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mmm - thanks josh.
the bi-sexual fetish-er of older jewish men inside me is happy.

for serious.
the earl grey at 09:42 PM on 05/15/07
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jenny : I think you mean "Jew eat"?

annie hall again [woody & tony roberts ]

"Wagner max, wagner" !
VenusCloacina at 10:48 PM on 05/15/07
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@Seeräuber Jenny:

I dunno. Annie Hall made Eric Schaeffer possible. (Terminal solipsism)

It's never terminal. Just chronic. Like hemorrhoids.
Dusty in the Wind at 10:57 PM on 05/15/07
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Woody signed off on that sign? Seriously?
bot at 11:53 PM on 05/15/07
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it's gone!
NYCF at 12:39 AM on 05/16/07
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Shtop it.
depardoo at 09:02 AM on 05/16/07
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"We'll take it in a little. You want velvet, we got velvet." My Yiddishe Mama just puked.
been-had-it at 11:26 AM on 05/16/07
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yes, it's true that it's gone!

this sign was taken down sometime between 9pm sunday and 12 noon monday.