JEWBANO

Born in Cuba, Francisco Fernandez comes to America at the age of three. Seven years later, he finds himself a member of the Borscht Belt Bungalow Colony when his mother remarries a Jewish cop from Brooklyn. Love, laughter, music, jokes and thirty new relatives enter as Francisco becomes Frank Speiser, a Jewish Columbus traveling through a new world called Brooklyn. We meet his mysterious, dance-loving mother and try to understand why she left Cuba, never to return. We're taken to see the Brooklyn Dodgers, eat hot dogs at Nathan's, and ride the Cyclone at Coney Island. We're introduced to Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante and Nat "King" Cole at the Copacabana, the famous Manhattan nightclub where his mother is head wardrobe mistress. We become part of a wondrous magical place in Brooklyn inhabited by a memorable cast of characters of the fifties. And we absorb the warm memories that changed a boy's life - the smothering hugs and kisses, dancing the Rhumba, and eating lots of black beans and lox and bagels. "Enjoy!"!