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That same year, her second film, the heartbreak kid, was released. Friedman was born to a jewish family and raised in the bronx, the son of irving and mollie liebowitz friedman. Bruce jay friedman published his first short story in the new yorker in 1953 when he was 23. Friedman was born to a jewish family and raised in the bronx, the son of irving and mollie liebowitz.
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