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On Friday, June 23, Netflix began
streaming Glow, a new series. It
stars Alison Brie, 34, as Ruth, an
out-of-work actress who seeks
stardom by entering the glitz-and-
spandex world of women’s profes-
sional wrestling in the 1980s. Ruth
and 11 other Hollywood misfits are
managed by a washed-up Hollywood
B-movie director (Marc Maron, 53).
Entertainment Weekly just gave it a
rave review, describing Glow as a
“silly smart masterpiece.”
The title character of Okja, a film
which began streaming on Netflix
on June, 28, is a pig genetically
engineered by a big nasty company
to grow as big as a hippo. The baby
Okja is sent out to be fostered on
an organic Korean farm. A young
Korean girl bonds with Okja and is
devastated when Dr. Wilcox (Jake
Gyllenhaal, 36) takes Okja to
America and she sets off to get Okja
back. Variety criticized the film’s
jarring change in tones: from the
familiar (child in love with animal
in danger) to weird adult scenes of
Okja roughly mating and in a grim
slaughterhouse. The film’s co-writer,
Jon Ronson, 50, is a journalist and
documentary filmmaker. He was born
and raised in Wales, and he’s the
second Welsh Jew to appear in this
column. The first one was prolific
actor Roger Rees (1944-2015), who
was a devout convert to Judaism.
Comedian Bill Dana, born William
Szathmary, died on June 15, age 92.
He was best known for playing the
comic Mexican bellhop Jose Jiménez
on TV and on comedy records. He
was also a WWII combat veteran and
the writer of the famous All in the
Family episode featuring Sammy
Davis, Jr.

Brie

Maron

Dana

HALL-OF-FAMERS IN ISRAEL

Eighteen members of the Pro
Football Hall of Fame arrived in Israel
on June 15 for a weeklong stay. The
delegation was led by New England
Patriots owner Robert Kraft, 76, a
big supporter of American football in
Israel. They were scheduled to view
Israeli high-school football games,
greet American and Israeli fans, and
answer their questions in “break-
out” meetings.
The 18 included household names
like Joe Montana, Jim Brown and
Roger Staubach. There was one
Jewish Hall-of-Famer among the 18:

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Tippett

Andre Tippett, 57, a great Patriots’
linebacker (1982-1993) and cur-
rently the Patriots’ community affairs
director. An African American who
was raised Baptist, Tippett converted
to Judaism in 1998. In 2009, his
daughter had her bat mitzvah in
Jerusalem. •