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charli3 — 10 years ago(June 01, 2015 02:57 PM)

Thornton is not Jewish is he?

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Of course, Dangerfield is Jewish, and so is Keith Gordon. It's common in Hollywood for Jews to play Italians and vice versa.

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Yeah, that's what I thought too.

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Right. I was thinking of how the Germans, Jewish, and Polish people changed the variation of their last names during that time. Ex Kryzewski to Kross, Brown from Von Bron ect

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No, Italian. He shortened his last name probably for the same reason that many others of his generation didto make himself sound more Americanized.

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