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    <title>Melanie Chartoff</title>
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      <title>Standups of the 70’s—Still Stars Today</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Not to be confused with, yet reminiscent of a current film by the same name (both feature lots of depressing nights in bars) Standup Guys: A Generation of Laughs by John DeBellis (on Amazon) is one of the most hilarious histories of any artistic era you'll ever read,  much funnier than Kerns’ Team of Rivals, or Caro’s book on LBJ—Passage of Power. A book with purposes beyond decorative, it’s palliative, yet stimulating, educational, yet entertaining, and darn flattering (I’m in it).]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Mobile, Is Featured?, newspulse, Mobile Sections, Arts, Books, Latest Blogs, Top Blog Homepage, Header Categories, NAV Life and Culture,</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:44:32 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Chanukah hook-up at the Genius Bar</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[My stench of desperation split the Red Sea of Apple addicts as, wild eyed, I made a beeline for the hallowed Bar of Geniuses. Stature decimated, starved for insight, prisoner of a cell phone I couldn't comprehend, I'd parked illegally, defying security in the bowels of the mall, fording a moat of mad shoppers during Holiday Hell to get help.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Mobile, newspulse, Mobile Sections, Sci-Tech, Lifestyle, Latest Blogs, Header Categories, NAV Blogs,</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:24:24 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Multi-function forms, friends, food</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/multi-function_forms_friends_food_20111019</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As the world becomes shortage and space obsessed, I realize how ahead of the curve I've been in making myriad reuses of everything and everyone. Call me frugal/economical and/or exploitative/anal.<h3>Related Entries</h3>
<ul><li>April 1, 2011 <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/ah--the_age_of_artificial_humor_20110330">A.H.&#8212;The age of artificial humor</a></li>
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      <dc:subject>Lifestyle, Mobile-Homepage, Is Featured?, newspulse, Top Stories,</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:55:08 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>The ‘Smell-Prejudiced’ Plumbers</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/the_smell_prejudiced_plumbers_20110711</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I come from the cutting edge county of New Haven, Connecticut. Sure, our area's best known for patrician, classy old stuff like Yale University, the Shubert Theater, and historical Revolutionary War artifacts all over the place, but In terms of sensationalistic graffiti and verbal bullying, we were waaaay ahead of our time. The West Haven High School halls were trashed with profane etchings the day it opened in 1962, and reputations were ruined in permanent house paints all over the teachers' parking lot in East Haven in ’68. Before the internet made it easy, marriages and futures went up in fumes via the gifted gossip made in rumor mills of “the Havens.”]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:57:07 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>A.H.—The age of artificial humor</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/ah--the_age_of_artificial_humor_20110330</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It was only a matter of time.  With A.I., (Artificial Intelligence) surpassing human brains’ speed at organizing information, generating original creativity was its next logical frontier. Much as puddles of elements mixed to create new life forms on ancient earth, a miraculous ignition of new material has evolved from the electronic ethers, to compete with human comedians.<h3>Related Entries</h3>
<ul><li>October 19, 2011 <a href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/multi-function_forms_friends_food_20111019">Multi-function forms, friends, food</a></li>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:00:44 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>“Spiderman” spine-tingling for all the wrong reasons</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/spiderman_spine-tingling_for_all_the_wrong_reasons_20110106</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As "Spiderman" the Spectacle careens toward its opening, despite costly delays, a cacophony of controversies, serious human and technical mishaps and injuries, it looks likely to be a critic proof hit, in terms of paying off its producers and insurance premiums. Perhaps the endangerment or public death of some "Spiderpeople" will assure its ticket sales even further. But the toll that it's taking on talented performers, and Broadway theater puts me in a state of PTSD as I recall the weeks preceding the opening (and quick closing) of my first Broadway show.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:47:49 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>A Latke Lament</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/a_latke_lament_20101203</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Lender family made the bagel a household word, but in this very effort may have assimilated and Americanized it beyond recognition. I now fear the same blurry fate for the purity of the potato latke. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:41:36 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Time traveling via Ratner’s recipes</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/time_traveling_via_ratners_recipes_20101025</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Once upon a time in a kitchen far, far away, I spent a cuddly childhood being babysat by my grandma in our fairy tale of a family deli downtown New Haven, Ct. I could have done worse. She, a sorceress of superb taste, made ruggelach fresh daily, with me assisting, eating fistfuls of walnuts that 'just happened' to fall from the dough, licking the battered bowl of elixir from the cake preparations, eating crumbs that magically broke off the babka. My mouth was as busy as my hands as I ingested the mysteries of grandma’s cuisine.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:46:22 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Suddenly Soundheim</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/suddenly_soundheim_201004241</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The most beautiful sounds I ever heard have always been associated in some fashion with Stephen Sondheim, now in his eighth decade, his fifth of wringing singers out.<br />
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      <dc:date>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:29:10 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Suddenly Soundheim</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/suddenly_soundheim_20100424</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The most beautiful sounds I ever heard early in my life were always associated in some fashion with Stephen Sondheim, now in his eighth decade, his fifth of wringing singers out.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:29:04 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Seder by the Sea</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/seder_by_the_sea_20100325</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Film producer Robert Chartoff and I aren't kin, but our common surnames, our improvisational skew on being Jews, our eclectic choice of friends, and the fact that we both leaned so far left as to be horizontal, made us family.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:44:15 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Peacenik Einstein and the Nuke Fluke</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/peacenik_einstein_and_the_nuke_fluke_20100322</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Albert Einstein, genius, physicist, Zionist, peacemaker, deemed traitor and defeatist by the German government, idol by ours, would've been one hundred thirty one years old last week. Gone fifty-five years as of April 18th, still he captivates --exploited in Apple ads, satirized in films and commercials, sanitized in floating photos seen on many screen savers, some of his many facets will now grace our stages by means of two playwrights in two up and coming theater productions here in Los Angeles. ]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Favorites,</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:15:04 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Chutzpah Mitzvah</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/chutzpah_mitzvah_20100310</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I’ve been an actress all my life. But, even though I make a fool of myself professionally on stage, radio, screen, cellphone, webisode, and reruns soon coming to a chip in your head, off duty I’m demure.  When I’m not playing a “role,” I’m a vaporous mist.  Ask anyone, and if they can even remember me, they’ll tell you it’s true. Although I photosynthesized in the limelight all my life, having private, personal, intensely dramatic moments in highly public places for big bucks, in real life I’m shy and retiring.  But as my agent is also retiring…from the business…forever….and I can no longer rely on him to get me work, I need a personalityectomy fast.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:58:56 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>About</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/melanie_chartoff/item/about</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Melanie Chartoff is an inventor--of stories and characters for the page, stage and screen-- and the environment, having patented a graywater recycling device for home use (<a href="http://www.graywayrotatingdrain.com" title="graywayrotatingdrain.com" target="_blank">graywayrotatingdrain.com</a>).  ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:23:37 +0000</dc:date>
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