Dress British, Think British
Auntie Joyce Wadler is at it again:
I've always been fascinated with actors who have to be heroes, whereas I shy away from that," Ricky Gervais, the British comedian who will star in a new HBO series, "Extras," this fall, was saying the other day. "I'm a flawed character. I'm good at that." He uses a Yiddish word for loser. If you want that sort, Mr. Gervais says, then "I'm your man. If you want John Wayne, forget it."
"He uses a Yiddish word for loser"? We kind of love that the Times these days assumes some British dude knows Yiddish terms its own readers don't.
We kind of hate it, too.
Feh.
