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AT THE MOVIES
Opening Friday, Jan. 6: I am not a great
fan of the Amityville movies and wasn’t
going to write about the 17th (!) film in
the series — until I saw that Jennifer
Jason Leigh, 54, has a starring role. The
new film, Amityville: The Awakening, is a
pretty familiar plot line: A teenage girl,
Bella, and her mother (Leigh) move into
a new house, but when strange stuff
happens, Bella suspects that her mother
has moved the family into the infamous
Amityville house.
This isn’t a prestigious role for
Leigh and she probably did it for the
Chanukah gelt. However, she is a real
pro, and she proved in her Oscar-
nominated role in The Hateful Eight
(2015) that she could transform herself
into a truly gripping evil woman who
seemed almost possessed by the devil.
If the Amityville script gives her half a
chance, she’ll make the movie worth a
look.

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NEW TO ME — NEW TO YOU?
I thought I knew a lot about Albert
Einstein, having read a couple of
biographies and having seen a lot of
documentaries. But an anecdote I never
heard before made me smile, and I
think a smile is a good thing to start the
New Year with.
I just stumbled on a 1991 American
Masters Einstein documentary. It began
by showing that Einstein was “human”
and had a sense of humor — almost
the entire first scene was newsreel foot-
age of Einstein joking with reporters.
This was followed by an interview with
Dutch-born physicist Abraham Pais
(1918-2000). Pais knew Einstein very
well and related this: “[Einstein] loved
Jewish jokes. I told him many [Jewish
jokes] and the thing I wish most is
that I had a record in which I captured
Einstein’s laughter when he heard a
good Jewish joke. His laugh sounded
like the sound of a contented seal: a
very strange sound.”
I just love the image of the greatest
intellect of the 20th century laugh-
ing uproariously at the same jokes
I’ve loved, and laughing at the same
jokes that amused the “ordinary” Jews
who flocked to the Borscht Belt during
Einstein’s lifetime. We may not all get
“relativity,” but the whole tribe gets a
good Jewish joke.

Einstein

NEW SERIES
The Mick, a new comedy series, pre-
miered on Fox on Jan. 1. The second
episode aired earlier this week at its
normal time (Tuesdays, 8 p.m. —easy
to catch up online with free-streaming
episodes). Mick stars Kaitlin Olson as
Mickey, a middle-aged hustler always
looking for an easy life. Her dreams are
answered when she is named guardian
of her sister’s three children and gets to
live in their palatial home (her sister and
her billionaire brother-in-law have fled
the country to escape fraud charges).
Mickey’s dream has one catch: She’s
required to turn these three spoiled
brats into responsible people.
Sofia Black D’elia, 24, plays Sabrina,
the oldest child. Sabrina is described as
“an ambitious, 18-going-on-30-year-old
who is a worthy adversary to Mickey.”
D’Elia, who has called herself Jewish, is
the daughter of a Jewish mother and a
non-Jewish father.

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