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Opens Friday, March 3: Table 19 is
a romantic comedy starring Anna
Kendrick as Eloise McGarry. Eloise is
invited to a wedding and finds herself
seated at Table 19, where the hosts
plunk guests who were only reluctantly
invited. Co-stars include Lisa Kudrow,
53, Wyatt Russell (Goldie Hawn’s
son), 30, and June Squibb, 87. The
film was directed and written by
Jeffrey Blitz, 48 (Spellbound, Rocket
Science).

Russell

MUSICAL/NUPTIAL NOTES

Meet Pharoah and Moses,
cross the Red Sea,
make matzah, and
create a special take
home for your seder!

The Barbara and Douglas Bloom Matzah Factory

Sunday, March 19th
1-4 pm

Jewish Community Center

6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield

Register at www.jewishdetroit.org/matzah

Questions or for more information:
Gail Greenberg at greenberg@jfmd.org or 248.205.2536

This event is generously funded by the Barbara and Douglas Bloom Matzah Factory Fund.

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March 2 • 2017

jn

Radiohead, the famous rock band,
has defied boycott pressures and will
play Israel this summer. There may
be a personal reason for the concert.
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood
is married to Israeli artist Sharona
Katan, and he recently released
Junun, a collaborative album with
Israeli composer/singer Shye Ben
Tzur, 35ish.
Matrimony has not gone well for
actress Scarlett Johansson, 32. Her
2008 marriage to actor Ryan Reynolds
ended in 2010. Her second, two-year
marriage to French ad-man Roman
Duriac ended last December (they
have a daughter, Rose, now 2 years
old). Both divorces came without any
before or after media information as to
why the marriages ended. However, in
a recent Playboy interview, Johansson
opened the door a crack by acknowl-
edging that marriage is hard work and
implied, perhaps, that she and/or her
husbands had a problem with doing
the work.
Most media picked up one line in
the interview. Johansson told Playboy
that “monogamy may not be natural.”
But if you read the whole interview,
which is available online, that com-
ment was part of several long thought-
ful answers about marriage. That
quote was book-ended by her saying
that an ongoing, faithful marriage is “a
beautiful thing” and that a long-term
marriage is “a beautiful responsibility.”
Johansson is the daughter of an
American Jewish mother, Melanie
Sloan, and Karner Johansson, an
architect originally from Denmark.
Her parents split up when she was
quite young, and she was raised, in
pretty tight financial circumstances, by
her mother. In the Playboy interview,
Scarlett describes her father as “kind
of a dreamer.” Unlike many former
child actors, she praises her mother’s
management of her acting career
(from the time she was about 8 years

Greenwood (left) and Ben Tzur

Johansson

old until she was in her late teens).
She says: “My mom is very ambi-
tious, and she’s also good at multi-
tasking. She has a lot of life force,
my mom. I definitely inherited that
from her.” It’s no surprise, then, that
Sloan was her daughter’s “date” when
Scarlett was recently honored (Feb. 7)
at a gala benefit for amFAR, the foun-
dation for AIDS research. Johansson
has raised mucho money for amFAR.
As I was thinking of Scarlett’s
marital woes, I chanced to read a
Variety interview (Feb. 14) with Jake
Gyllenhaal, 36, in which he said he
would like to play Teyve in Fiddler one
day (he’s just opened in a Broadway
revival of the Stephen Sondheim
musical, Sunday in the Park with
George). If I was Yenta, the match-
maker, I’d fix Scarlett up with Jake:
They’re both musical, great looking,
Jewish and part Scandinavian. Plus,
the paparazzi could come up with nice
name combos, like JoHall — which is
a lot better than ScarJo, a media mon-
iker that Scarlett says she hates. •

