Profile: Francisco Franco

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1274

http://www.hulu.com/watch/1426/saturday-night-live-the-death-of-franco

Suggestions by Keith from New Mexico, David from New York, and Silvio from San Marino.

Profile: Tim Blake Nelson

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1273

"Oh Brother" is probably my favorite Coen Brothers movie... After "The Big Lebowski", of course.

Thanks to James from North Carolina for the suggestion.

Top 10 Profiles: February

1. Ben Affleck (0)
2. Jesus Christ (+1)
3. Mel Gibson (+1)
4. Scarlett Johansson (+1)
5. Eli Manning (+33)
6. Adolf Hitler (0)
7. Charlie Chaplin (+1)
8. Sandra Bullock (+1)
9. Meryl Streep (+9)
10. Mikhail Prokhorov (+13)

Profile: Mark Felt

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1272

And now, Happy Leap Day!

Thanks to Josh from Arizona for the suggestion.

Profile: Oscar Straus

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1271

Happy Not-The-Last-Day-of-February!

Straus was suggested by....me! I was reading Theodore Rex (the book about the President, not the sci fi movie with a talking dinosaur) and Straus was mentioned there.

Good times!

Profile: Elena Lupescu

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1270

Interestingly, Elena's stepson, King Michael I, is still alive...

Thanks to Richard from Perth for the terrific suggestion.

Update: Everything un-ruined. For now...

Per ESPN, The Hebrew Hammer has been absolved, his 50-day drug suspension cancelled, his name cleared. Sort of.

After all, Braun won his appeal on an apparent technicality (the tester brought Braun's sample home for the weekend rather than immediately drop it off for testing) rather than any true clearing of guilt.

Still, for those of you who were holding off on buying Braun jerseys till this was resolved, you may now unleash your credit cards for the new baseball season. Here's hoping Braun has learned from this close call before his legacy really, truly does become irrevocably tarnished.

Profile: Helen Mirren

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1269

If you type "Helen Mirren" into Google, your first suggestion is "Helen Mirren bikini". We'll let you follow that up on your own, readers.

Suggestions by Barry from NY, Gary from Bethesda, MD, Ed from NJ, Darkhawk from Canada, and Karl from Australia.

Profile: Janet Jagan

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1268

Yet another country knocked out on our never-ending quest for Jews...

Suggestion from Eddie in DC.

Profile: Golem

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1267

"Seriously, who needs Frankenstein's Monster, when we already have The Golem?" We wrote that in September 2007. Better late than never?

Jews in the News: a Jew playing hockey for Germany

This is American-born Evan Kaufmann, who recently played for Germany's national hockey team. The New York Times has an in-depth look.

Profile: Abe Vigoda

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1266

The very useful AbeVigoda.com constantly alerts the world of his current status...

Suggestions by Lee from Philly, Jason from Vancouver, Matt from Boston, and Margaret from Brooklyn.

Profile: Nigella Lawson

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1265

I love Norwegian author Erlend Loe, who is sadly not translated into English. His novella, "Quiet Days in Mixing Part", deals with a playwright who is obsessed with Lawson...

Suggestions from Luca from Rome, Mila from Alexandria, VA, Renee from New York, Harry from New York, and Gary from South Africa.

Settling the Score: Charlie Chaplin

There is a reason Charlie Chaplin is profile #2 (and, actually, the first one ever posted): many people erroneously think he's Jewish. And more fuel to the fire has been added:

According to newly released documents, both the FBI and Britain's MI5 spent years trying to determine if the star of silent films was actually a Communist born in France under the name Israel Thornstein.

Alas...

[MI5] said there was "no evidence that Chaplin's name is or ever has been Israel Thornstein," or that he had been born in France.

Profile: Malcolm Glazer

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1264

If Glazer is not the most hated man in England, he's definitely the most hated man in Manchester...