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Nate Bloom
Noah Silver, 18,
Special to the Jewish News
who plays Sammy,
the son of Barry
and Molly (Barry's
American wife).
Silver has made
Israeli films as
well appearing in
American shows
New On The Tube
Leftovers debuted on HBO at 10 p.m.
Sunday, June 29. The cable chan-
nel ordered just 10 episodes (catch
up via encore showings and on-
demand/online viewing).
Pundits speculate HBO wants to
see whether there's sustained inter-
est in a series about what happens
to people left in a suburban commu-
nity when most of the population is
taken up to heaven by "the Rapture"
(a Christian belief that Christian
believers will be taken up to heaven
in advance of other events, mostly
bad, happening on Earth).
I've never read about any
Christian denomination that believes
unconverted Jews will be included
in the Rapture, and one of the "left-
overs" is a character with a Jewish
surname (Levin).
Leftovers was
co-created by
Damon Lindelof,
41, who also cre-
ated ABC's Lost.
The ending of Lost,
which was quasi-
religious (char-
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acters, alive and
Lindelof
dead, reunited in a
church) disappointed and confused a
huge portion of the show's audience.
Speculation is that HBO is hedg-
ing its bets about another Lindelof
series with a metaphysical plot line
until after the first 10 shows air.
The cast includes Amy Brenneman,
the former star of Judging Amy,
who many think is Jewish. Her
father was born and raised a
Congregationalist Protestant, and
her Jewish mother converted to her
father's faith decades ago.
The FX series Tyrant, created by
40-ish Israeli film and TV director
Gideon Raf (Homeland), premiered
at 10 p.m. Tuesday, June 22; you can
catch up via encore showings and
on-demand/online viewing.
The basic plot: Bassam "Barry" Al
Fayeed (played by Brit actor Adam
Rayner) is from the fictional war-
torn (Arab) country of Abbudin. He
has been living in self-selected exile
in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years.
Barry, the younger son of
Abbudin's dictator, ends his exile
to return with his American family
to his homeland for his nephew's
wedding. His arrival leads to a dra-
matic culture clash as he reluctantly
returns to the familial and national
politics he once left.
The pilot (which earned mostly
good reviews) and most of the rest
of the 10-episode first season was
filmed in Israel.
The supporting cast includes
Silver
like The Borgias.
Also in big supporting roles:
Justin Kirk, 45; Moran Atias, 33;
and Ashraf Barhom, 34.
Kirk, whose mother is Jewish,
plays an American diplomat sta-
tioned in Abbudin. Atias, an Israeli
Jewish actress, plays Leila, the wife
of Jamal (Jamal is the older brother
of Barry and next-in-line to his coun-
try's presidency). Playing Jamal is
Barhom, an Israeli Christian Arab
and University of Haifa graduate.
Extant is a sci-fi series produced
by Steven Spielberg, 67. It debuts at
9 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, on CBS.
Halle Berry plays an American
astronaut who inexplicably returns
home pregnant after a year in
space. The supporting cast includes
Camryn Manheim (The Practice),
53. She plays Sam, Berry's charac-
ter's best friend and confidante.
Birthright/Baseball
The Times of Israel reported on
June 23 that filmmaker Jeremy
Newberger, 40, and sports writer
Jonathan Mayo, 43, are working on
organizing a special trip to Israel
for Jewish Major League and minor
league baseball players. Newberger
thinks he could make an interest-
ing film about how the trip touched
each one of the players who went to
Israel. It also would allow these play-
ers, most of whom have little Jewish
religious background, to get in touch
with Israeli/Jewish life and culture.
They already have the enthusi-
astic backing of Houston pitcher
Josh Zeid, 27, whose sister went
on a Birthright Israel trip ("It was
life-changing for her," Zeid told the
Times).
Players who
have given them
positive responses
include Pittsburgh
first baseman Ike
Davis, 27, Detroit
second baseman
Kinsler
Ian Kinsler, 32,
and now-retired
outfielder Gabe Kapler, 38.
Tigers manager Brad Ausmus,
45, the former coach of Team Israel,
gave Mayo and Newberger some
baseball contacts in Israel to help
with organizing clinics led by the
players. The producers caution that
the project is still at an early stage,
and much work needs to be done
before it becomes a reality. ❑
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