“What does an eleven-year-old boy do when his classmates call him “Dumbo” and his parents don’t seem to knew that he exists? His mother, the beautiful Faigele, spends her days pushing her two-year-old son Marvin around in a stroller and barely hears Jerome’s clarinet playing. The answer for Jerome Charyn is to go to the local movie house and hide out for a few hours every day. At the movies, he can escape and not be himself for a little while.
One day, while watching Samson and Delilah for the seventh time t…
