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Rich Cohen

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Columnist @WSJ (“Back When”), author most recently of The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator
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Last Call for the Dive Bar?

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By Rich Cohen
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Montero, the beloved Brooklyn Heights dive bar that dates to the 1930s, has found new owners who have pledged to preserve it. (Photo by Sebastian Lange.) I don’t want to live in a world without dive bars. It was in those sleazy, beer-soaked bat caves that I learned to be a man. I am thinking of a half dozen joints where, from 1990 to 2010, when my fourth child was born, I was welcomed as Norm was welcomed at Cheers.
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Lies My Father Told Me

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By Rich Cohen
| AIR MAIL Verified
In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man by Tom Junod Up here, on the surface, Tom Junod’s book In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man is about his father, Big Lou Junod, a stylish, larger-than-life, Paul Bunyan figure who, in his son’s eyes, could whip any man and love every woman. It’s about the truth behind the façade, the old man’s philandering and vow-breaking, and what a boy raised by a false god can do with such a legacy.
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‘Marty Supreme’ Is a Gift to Jews

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By Rich Cohen
| The Free Press Verified
‘Marty Supreme’ Is a Gift to Jews Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Mauser is amoral, gifted, and reckless. (A24) When there is an attempt to redefine what it means to be Jewish—to turn us into villains—this movie is defiant. I went through my 20s with a beef. I didn’t like how Jews were portrayed in pop culture, or in the minds of my friends, Jewish and not. I didn’t like it when Henry Winkler, a Jewish graduate of the Yale School of Drama, portrayed the toughest character on TV, he had to play an Italian.
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