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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE MARCH 05, 2002 13:51:09 ET XXXXX OSCAR VOTERS PAUSE OVER 'BEAUTIFUL MIND'; NASH 'JEW BASHING' LEFT OUT OF FILM When Academy voters factor in how the famous mathematician is an anti-Semite, will the Oscar votes add up for UNIVERSALDREAMWORKS at the end of the night? **Exclusive** LOS ANGELES -- Producers of the Oscar nominated film A BEAUTIFUL MIND quietly left out all references to John Nash's anti-Semitic views, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. But in recent days, as final voting for OSCAR approaches, some Academy members are discovering shocking Jew-bashing passages found in the book on which the movie is based! "Why am I voting for this Jew hater?" a veteran Academy member said earlier this week before voting. "I am a Jew! I feel sick to my stomach." MORE Jew Bashing scenes found in the book "A Beautiful Mind: The Life of the Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash" have been completely scrubbed from the film, directed by Ron Howard and staring Russell Crowe -- even though actor Crowe's picture is featured on the paperback of the biography. "The root of all evil, as far as my personal life is concerned (life history) are Jews," John Nash wrote in a letter in 1967. [Noted on page 326 of BEAUTIFUL MIND.] Author Sylvia Nasar's repeated references to Nash's feeling towards Jews were deliberately left off the screen. "We didn't want to go there," a productio |
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