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June 22 • 2017

jn

All but one of the Jewish winners at
the Tony Awards, which aired on June
11, were mentioned in my special
Tonys article (“The Tribe at the Tonys”;
June 8) — including actors Ben Platt
and Bette Midler; songwriter Benj
Pasek, writer Steven Levenson and
director Rebecca Taichman). I was
99-percent sure that Michael Aronov,
41, who won the Tony for Best
Featured Actor in a play (Oslo), was
Jewish, but I couldn’t confirm that by
press time. Aronov thanked his parents
by name (Solomon and Anna) from the
stage and with that clue, I gathered
some bio background: His parents are
Jews from the former Soviet Union
who settled in Miami, where Michael
grew up. Nice to note: His mother’s
Facebook page “likes” an Israeli gov-
ernment agency for Russian Jews.
In Oslo, Aronov plays Uri Savir, a
(real) official appointed by the Israeli
government to take over stalled secret
negotiations with the Palestinians
in 1993. Savir (Aronov) does not
appear until Act 2. This review by
Sam Eckmann encapsulates why
Aronov won the Tony: “[Aronov] storms
the stage with a rock-star swag-
ger, complete with a tightly tailored
suit. [He] drastically alters the pace
and energy of the play as he drinks,
dances and flirts his way through
scenes. His showboating is a neces-
sary dramatic counter to the story’s
heavier elements. That’s not to say he
can’t handle dramatic moments. The
interplay between Aronov’s Uri and …
the finance minister to the PLO as they
argue over borders and Jerusalem
is the most thrilling aspect of Oslo.
Aronov walks a delicate line between
friendly ribbing and brutal rebuffs as
the two men haggle.”
Rough Night opened last Friday.
The plot for the very Tribe-heavy black
comedy: Things go badly for five old
girlfriends at a rowdy bachelorette
party when one of them accidentally
kills a male stripper. The friends are
played by Scarlett Johansson, 32,
Zoe Kravitz, 28, Ilana Glazer (co-star
of Broad City), 30, Jillian Bell and Kate
McKinnon. (By the way, didn’t Scarlett
look gorgeously elegant as she pre-
sented the first Tony Award this year?)

AT THE MOVIES

Transformers: The Last Knight arrives
in theaters June 23, just in time
for kids’ summer vacation. This is
the fifth entry in the very lucrative

Aronov

Johansson

Elgort

live-action sci-fi series based on the
Transformers toys. Michael Bay, 52,
who directed all five Transformers
movies, said the fourth would be his
last. Now he says the fifth is the end
for him. Time will tell.
Ansel Elgort, 23, stars in Baby
Driver (opens Wednesday, June 28)
as a talented getaway driver for
bank robbers. He meets the girl of
his dreams (Lily James) and sees a
chance to get out of his criminal life.
But his dream is threatened by a very
nasty crime boss (Kevin Spacey). Jon
Bernthal, 40, plays a bank robber.
By the way, Elgort’s paternal grandpa
was a Russian Jew, and it looks like
his paternal grandma was Jewish, too
(but I’m not sure). The secular actor’s
non-Jewish mother’s family deserves
mention —his Norwegian grandmother
was put in a Nazi concentration camp
for smuggling Jewish children to neu-
tral Sweden. •