arts & life Celebrity Jews OPENING … Nate Bloom Special to the Jewish News after Thanksgiving!!! AT THE MOVIES Opened Wednesday, Nov. 23: Nocturnal Animals won the Grand Jury prize at the prestigious Venice Film Festival. Really three movies in one, the film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, 35, playing a novelist and the main character in the novelist’s new book. He gives the manuscript to his ex-wife (Amy Adams) to read. The story of her failed marriage to the novelist and the harrowing tale told in the novel form the bulk of the film. Isla Fisher, 40, co-stars as the wife of the novel’s main character. The direc- tor, Tom Ford, is also a famous fashion designer and he got Gyllenhaal’s Gyllenhaal permission to put out a “Jake” lipstick, telling him, “Jake, every woman should have you on your lips.” There is also a Ford-line lipstick called, “Drake,” after the famous rapper, and Gyllenhaal told Jimmy Kimmel, “That’s OK, he’s Jewish, too.” Allied stars Brad Pitt as Max Vatan, an intelligence officer who meets Marianne (Marion Cotillard), a French resistance fighter, in 1942 while on a secret North African mission. Later in the war, they reunite in England, get married and have a child. Then Vatan is shown evidence that she’s a German sleeper spy, and he’s under extreme pressure to kill her or be killed himself. Cohen He then sets out on a dangerous mission to clear her name. Lizzie Caplan, 34 to play Han Solo in the upcoming Star (Masters of Sex) has a Wars reboot). Frank and Marla’s romance big supporting role puts them at risk of being fired because as Max’s sister. Hughes has an ironclad rule barring The opening date driver/actress romances. Sadly, most for Rules Don’t Apply reviewers say the Hughes’ story and the was pushed back, young couple’s story never really mesh, Caplan so a lot of big-time and the couple’s story is not satisfactorily reviews are already resolved. Matthew Broderick, 54, has out. Nobody gave it a rave; a narrow a big supporting role as a Hughes’ top majority of reviews say it has a lot of flunky. flaws, but is worth seeing. It’s probably SHALOM LEONARD COHEN the last film to be directed by Warren The legendary singer/songwriter died Beatty, now 79. He co-wrote the script on Nov. 7, age 83. Aware of his impend- and co-stars as the legendary business- ing death, Cohen recently spoke to New man Howard Hughes, who owned RKO film studio from 1948-1955. Hughes was Yorker editor David Remnick, 58, and the interview, integrated into a remark- famously odd, and while his eccentrici- ably complete short bio of Cohen, was ties are amusing, they may have too big published in the Oct. 17 issue of the a place in the film. magazine and is free online (newyorker. The youth market is served by cen- com). Last week, Remnick wrote that he tering the story, at first, on Marla, a knew, during the interview, that cancer pretty young actress (Lily Collins, whose would soon take Cohen’s life. Also last maternal grandpa was Jewish). Marla week, Cohen’s son, Adam, 44, briefly is signed by Hughes and soon falls for described his father’s very traditional Frank, her RKO studio driver. He’s played Jewish burial. by Alden Ehrenreich, 26 (who is going VOILA Boutique European Women Clothing 395 Hamilton Row Birmingham 248-385-1313 www.voiladesign.biz THE BERMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS TOM WOPAT & LINDA PURL STARS OF BROADWAY Enjoy a wonderful evening of upbeat and jazzy tunes along with American stan dards, featuring Tony Award nominee Tom Wopat and “Best of New York” (New York Magazine) Linda Purl! WEDNESDAY'(&#p.m. WKHEHUPDQRUJZRSDWr TICKETS START AT Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus :0DSOH5RDG:HVW%ORRPƬHOG0, The Berman App Available 2129330 68 November 24 • 2016 *