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June 1 • 2017

NATE BLOOM
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Opening June 2 is Wonder Woman.
Basic plot: Chris Pine, whose maternal
grandpa was Jewish, plays Steve, a WWI
American secret agent pursued by the
German army because he knows they
plan to use a horribly deadly chemical
weapon. He crash lands on an idyllic
island where Diana, AKA Wonder Woman,
lives. She takes him back to England and
for a time she doesn’t reveal her true
self. But fate take s her to a no-man’s
land on a WWI battlefield, and look out,
it’s Wonder Woman in full regalia!
Jews worldwide have been giddy
since Israeli actress Gal Gadot, 32, was
cast as Wonder Woman. She’s practically
a superhero Jewish role model: a for-
mer Miss Israel, top model, Israeli army
veteran, motorcycle rider, mother of two
with her Israeli husband (a successful
hotel developer) — and, of course, hot
actress.
Last October, there was a United
Nations ceremony in which the Wonder
Woman character, as played by Gadot
and Lynda Carter on TV, was named
an Honorary Ambassador for the
Empowerment of Women & Girls. Carter
and Gadot met, for the first time, at the
ceremony. (Carter’s husband of 33 years,
Robert Altman, 69, is Jewish and their
children were raised Jewish). However,
after objections were raised about
using a fictional, scantily clad character
as a U.N. Ambassador, the Honorary
Ambassadorship was ended after two
months.
This controversy mirrors the long,
twisted history of getting Wonder Woman
to the big screen. For 20 years, film-
makers have been trying to find the
right approach and script that would
almost guarantee a hit. As they looked,
they were stymied by the failure of other
films featuring a superhero woman
(Catwoman and Elektra). The buzz is that
WW scriptwriter Allan Heinberg, 49, has
brought together the elements that elud-
ed others. He has a perfect mixture of
experience for this movie — he created
a hit comic series (Young Avengers) and
a new Wonder Woman comics storyline.
Plus, he has written for and helped pro-
duce many hit TV series, including Sex
and the City and Scandal.
Gadot spoke about all this with
Entertainment Weekly, and it’s clear she
thinks that her film has captured the
“real” Wonder Woman. She says: “For
a long time, people didn’t know how
to approach the story. Diana [Wonder
Woman] is not some idealized robot,
a warrior and nothing more. She’s a
woman — a woman with very high val-

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ues — but a woman. She goes through
the same challenges we all go thorough.
She wants to feels like she belongs …
to be appreciated … to help … to be
loved.”

MUSICAL NOTES

Attention must be paid to Drake, 30.
At the Billboard music awards, held
on May 21, he took home 13 trophies,
topping Adele, who won 12. He also
beat Adele out for the coveted Top
Artist award.
Ben Platt, 23, the Tony-nominated
star of the hit Broadway musical Dear
Evan Hansen, appeared with Stephen
Colbert on May 22. He told an amus-
ing story about how he silenced four
front-row Evan Hansen attendees
who wouldn’t stop talking loudly as
he was performing. Glaring at them
didn’t work, he said. But finally he
had an idea. He told Colbert, “I’d call
it a come-to-Jesus moment, but I’m a
Jew, so I guess it’s a come-to-Moses
moment.” He sneezed on them and it
worked. •