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COLUMNIST
GENERATIONS X AND Y AT 40
The eight-episode original series Friends
from College begins streaming on Netflix
on Friday, July 14. The series follows
a small group of Harvard grads now
in their 40s. As the series starts, Ethan
(Southfield native Keegan-Michael Key)
and Lisa Turner (Cobie Smolders) return
to New York City and reunite with college
friends. Their old pals include Max Adler,
played by Fred Savage (The Wonder
Years), 40, and Nick, played by Nat
Faxon, 41, whose mother is Jewish.
The famously acerbic Billy Eichner,
38, appears in a four-episode arc as
Felix, a fertility doctor who treats Ethan
and Lisa. Meanwhile, he gets romanti-
cally involved with Max. After a while,
Felix gets tired of the friends reliving
their college days and he issues some
biting outsider commentary. Also look for
Seth Rogen, 35, and Ike Barinholtz, 40,
in one-episode guest roles.
The series was co-created by
Nicholas Stoller, 41, and his wife,
Francesca Delbanco, 42. It’s appro-
priate that they should write together
because they met in 2001 at a Harvard
writers’ workshop and hit it off immedi-
ately. At the end of their week together,
the New York Times reports, Stoller
had the sad duty of putting Delblanco
on a plane back to Ann Arbor. Her
parents both then taught at U-M (writ-
ers Nicholas Delbanco and Elena
Greenhouse Delbanco). They wed in a
Jewish ceremony in 2006 and now have
two children.
Stoller has made some very good
movies (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and
some smart, but uneven movies (The
Five Year Engagement). Here’s hoping
his new series is smart and sharp and
doesn’t fall into the trap that some “old
buddy reunion” scripts do — boring
because the writer is too close to the
subject.
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July 13 • 2017
jn
Virtually everyone has noticed that the
Washington Post has broken an incred-
ible number of huge stories, based on
great investigative journalism, since
President Trump took office, with the
New York Times coming in a close sec-
ond. Every other media outlet is a far-
distant also-ran. Marty Baron, 62, has
been the Post’s managing editor since
2014 and a lot of credit has to go to
him and Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s head.
In 2015, Spotlight won the Best
Picture Oscar. It recounted how Baron,
then the executive editor of the Boston
Globe guided its investigative team as
Savage
Eichner
Delbanco and Stoller
they uncovered the abusive priest scan-
dal in Boston-area Catholic churches.
Clearly, Baron still has the ability to
coax the best of out his staff. He’s aided
by the millions that Bezos has pumped
into the Post and Bezos’ hands-off
policy about the Post’s reporting and
editorial policy. Bezos has also installed
a state-of-the-art digital ad system
that has greatly raised revenues. Other
papers are buying it.
Buzz Bissinger, 62, did the block-
buster interview with tennis star Serena
Williams that’s in the August issue
of Vanity Fair (with photos by Annie
Leibovitz, 67). Williams (who grew up,
with sister Venus, in Saginaw) has not
opened up much about her pregnancy,
or her life at all. Bissinger is still best
known for his 1990 book, Friday Night
Lights, which documents the 1988
season of a high-school football team
in Texas. It sold 2 million copies and
spawned a hit movie (2004) and a TV
series (2006-11) of the same name. •