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One in this syndicated series of topical panel programs moderated by producer David Susskind. In this program, Susskind introduces a re-airing of a popular show he did a few years earlier, a panel discussion entitled "How to be a Jewish Son." The panel includes the writer/director/comedian Mel Brooks, the restaurateur Larry Goldberg -- dubbed the New York "Pizza King"; the novelist and screenwriter Dan Greenberg; the actor George Segal; the fashion designer Stan Herman; and the writer/comedian David Steinberg.

The group discusses the following topics, among others: the Jewish mother as manipulator and instiller of guilt; Segal's 1970 film "Where's Poppa?" starring Ruth Gordon; Steinberg's recollections of growing up in a religious household; the panelists' Freudian dreams about their mothers; compulsions born of their childhoods; Greenberg's recollection of introducing his girlfriend Nora Ephron to his mother; the facility with which Yiddish- and Russian-speaking Jewish mothers pick up American show business jargon; Brooks's reminiscence of introducing Anne Bancroft, a Catholic, t

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