Original Fagin Was No Lovable Rascal
Just so no one gets any romantic notions about the guy who has been called “Fagin” because he is accused of recruiting young boys into a theft ring:
Forget that lovable old rascal Fagin in the cute musical “Oliver!”
In Charles Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist,” Fagin is a despicable, sleazy Semitic stereotype who is imprisoned and hanged.
TOM BURNS, Acton
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