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150 Artisan Cheeses
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Opens Friday, June 16: Surprisingly, All
Eyez on Me — a film about the late
African American rapper Tupac Shakur
(1971-1996) has many Jewish con-
nections. Born in Harlem, Shakur and
his family moved to Baltimore in 1986.
There, in high school, he met and
became life-long great friends with Jada
Pinkett (later Jada Pinkett Smith, the
wife of Will Smith).
Pinkett, who is a big character in
this film, is played by Kat Graham, 27.
Graham, the daughter of a Liberian-born
black music executive and an American
Jewish mother, was raised Jewish and
attended Hebrew school. She’s been
acting since age 6 and has had consid-
erable success as a dancer and record-
ing artist — this may be her break-
through film role. Perhaps she got cast
because her father was great friends
with music producer Quincy Jones and
his family.
In 1993, Shakur publicly attacked
Jones for having children (Rashida and
Kidada) with a white woman (then-wife
Peggy Lipton, now 70). Rashida, then
only 17, furiously attacked Shakur in a
public letter. Later, Shakur apologized
after meeting Kidada, now 43; Kidada
and Shakur were engaged at the time
of Shakur’s murder. Kidada is played by
actress Annie Ilonzeh.
Finally, there’s Leila Steinberg, now
55, who was an artistic and personal
mentor to Shakur in his late teens.
She’s played by Laura Cohan, 35 (The
Walking Dead).
The Book of Henry centers on Henry
Carpenter, a precocious 11-year-old
boy who is being raised, along with his
younger brother, by a single mother,
Susan (Naomi Watts). Henry has a crush
on the young girl next door, who he
discovers is being abused by her stepfa-
ther, the police commissioner. He writes
down a plan in a book to rescue her. His
mother reads the book and decides to
act on his plan. Sarah Silverman, 46,
has a big supporting part as Susan’s
friend.

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June 15 • 2017

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On June 13, Netflix began streaming a
recorded version of the enormously pop-
ular stage play Oh, Hello on Broadway.
It stars comedian Nick Kroll, 39, who
attended Jewish day school, and John
Mulaney as two strange elderly men and
features a lot of improv as they often go
off the loose script. Kroll and Mulaney
have been playing these characters (Gil
Faizon and George St. Geegland) for

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Miller

more than a decade, introducing them
first in Comedy Central sketches and
then touring them (in Hello) to packed
theaters in 2015. This acclaim propelled
Hello into a Broadway theater last fall.
Comedian T.J. Miller, whose mother
is Jewish, has a stand-up special
(Meticulously Ridiculous) that will pre-
miere on HBO on Saturday evening,
June 17. Miller, 36, has had a huge
career boost in the last few years — he
co-starred in the mega-hit Deadpool
(2016; playing Jack Hammer/the
Weasel) — and everyone loves his
performance as the wacky tech entre-
preneur Erlich Bachman in Silicon Valley
on HBO.
Miller shocked Silicon Valley fans
when he announced last month that he
was leaving the show at the end of its
current fifth season (June 25). It’s his
choice, he said, and he wasn’t written
out of the show. He was a bit vague on
reasons, but basically said it was the
right time to go. •