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As expected, the biggest Jewish
Oscar haul came in the musi-
cal categories. Justin Hurwitz,
32, won for Best Score (La La
Land) and for his music for
Best Song (“City of Stars”). The
lyricists of “City,” Benj Pasek,
31, and Justin Paul, shared the
best song Oscar with Hurwitz.
Both are U-M grads. From the
Oscars stage, Pasek thanked
his mom for letting him quit
“JCC soccer” to concentrate on
his music.
Congrats to: Kenneth
Lonergan, 54, who won the
Best Original Screenplay Oscar
for Manchester By the Sea;
Jeremy Kleiner, 40, a producer
of Moonlight, the Best Picture
winner; and Ezra Edelman, 43,
who won for directing the Best
Feature Length Documentary
(O.J.: Made in America). He’s
the son of Peter Edelman, a
(Jewish) law professor, and
Marian Wright Edelman, an
African American attorney
famous for her work defend-
ing children’s rights. A 1992
New York Times profile of the
Edelman family says their two
sons were raised in both par-
ents’ religious traditions and
that their older son, Jonah, now
47, had a bar mitzvah (whether
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The new Fox series Making
History premiered on Sunday,
March 5, and new episodes air
Sundays at 8:30 p.m. Adam
Pally, 34, stars as Dan, a nerdy
(contemporary) computer scien-
tist working at a small college.
He discovers how to time travel
and goes back to 1775 where
he meets and falls for Paul
Revere’s daughter, Deborah
(Leighton Meester). However,
Dan is concerned that his
romance may change history
for the worse, and he enlists
the help of a history profes-
sor (Yassir Lester) to guide him
and sometimes travel back in
time with him. The plot sounds
heavy, but basically it’s a com-
edy — Dan, for example, gets
Deborah to fall for him by using
modern song lyrics, jokes and
apt movie lines that she doesn’t
know aren’t original.
Pally, who previously co-
starred on Happy Endings and
The Mindy Project, is a talented
comic writer as well as a per-
former, and he wouldn’t appear
in a really bad show — so
check this one out. Pally, by the
way, married his wife, Daniela
Lieben Pally, in a Jewish cer-
emony in 2008, and they now
have a son and a daughter.
Meester is married to actor
Adam Brody, 37. Both his par-
ents are originally from Detroit.
Brody and Meester have one
child, a daughter.
The Hollywood Reporter gave
a rave review to Bette and Joan:
The Feud, an FX eight-episode
anthology series that began
on Saturday, March 5. It’s the
early ’60s, and Joan Crawford
(Jessica Lange) is trying to
revive her career with the film
What Ever Happened to Baby
Jane, but she knows she must
get longtime rival Bette Davis
(Susan Sarandon) to co-star
with her to make the film work.
The Reporter review singles
out veteran character comic
Jackie Hoffman, 56: “[She]
steals scenes with deadpan
deviousness as Crawford’s
German maid and confidante
Mamacita.” •