Celebrity Jews

Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

JEWISH ROCKERS
The nominees for 2017 induction into the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame were announced
on Oct. 18; on Dec. 16, we will find out who’s
getting in next year. The Jewish players in
nominated bands are noted: The Cars (Elliot
Easton, 62, lead guitar); J. Geils Band (every-
one in this band, except lead guitarist J. Geils,
is Jewish. They are “Magic Dick” Salwitz, 71,
harmonica; Peter Wolf, 70, lead singer; Seth
Justman, 65, keyboards; Danny Klein, 70,
bassist; Stephen Jo Bladd, 74, drummer);
Jane’s Addiction (lead singer Perry Farrell, 57,
born Peretz Bernstein — last I heard, Farrell is
a practicing Jew; and Stephen Perkins, 49,
drummer — he had his bar mitzvah in Tel Aviv
in 1980); and Yes (Trevor Rabin, 62, guitarist
and principal songwriter; and Tony Kaye, 70,
keyboards).
The famous ’60s Detroit band, MC5, is also
nominated. But, as is often the case, only
the original members of the band (none
Jewish) were deemed eligible for induction.
Therefore, ineligible is “Handsome” Dick
Manitoba, 62 (born Richard Blum). He was
the lead singer for a re-formed version of
MC5 from 2005-2011.

Wolf

Burns, c. 1980s

A sad note: British glam-rocker Pete Burns
died on Oct. 23, age 57. He’s best known
as the lead singer for Dead or Alive, which
had a big hit in 1985, “You Spin Me Round
(Like a Record).” His mother, who was born in
Germany, fled the Nazis for Vienna because
her father was Jewish. She had to hide during
the war years in Vienna and Burns said that
and learning the fate of her Jewish relatives
made her always depressed and her troubles
were, in many ways, passed on to her son.

THIS AND THAT
Magician David Blaine, 43, has a new ABC
Special, Beyond Magic, airing Tuesday, Nov.

Blaine

15, at 10 p.m. He’ll be returning to the
sleight-of-hand tricks that first made him
famous, rather than the endurance feats
he’s done of late. The special features a raft
of “amazed” celebrities, including Emma
Stone, Johnny Depp and John Travolta.
In my last column, I suggested that Mel
Gibson may have cast Andrew Garfield,
33, as the star of his new movie, Hacksaw
Ridge, because Garfield is Jewish. I said
that Gibson could expect that Garfield
would defend him in film promotion inter-
views and help Gibson’s “career redemp-
tion” campaign. Well, shortly after I wrote
that, Garfield appeared on Jimmy Kimmel

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He didn’t reveal his true self in profes-
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the Jewish police officer who arrested him
for drunk driving — and, while drunk at a
Hollywood party, when he called Winona
Ryder, now 45, an “oven dodger.”

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