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GOOD TIME?
I confess, I had barely heard of film-
maker brothers Josh and Ben Safdie
before reading the amazingly good
reviews for their new film Good Time
(opens Friday, Aug. 11). Born and
raised in New York, they are distantly
related to famous Israeli architect
Moshe Safdie, 78. The Safdies are
independent filmmakers who previ-
ously have made two low-budget fea-
ture films and one documentary. Those
films also got very good notices.
Good Time may be their break-
through film. But you have to make the
choice whether the harrowing subject
matter is something you want to see at
all, and/or prefer to see on your home
screen. Robert Pattinson (Twilight)
gives what Variety calls a “career high
in [a] nervy thriller.” Pattinson plays
Conny, a scuzzy career criminal. A
botched bank robbery he participated
in lands his mentally handicapped
brother, Nick (played by Ben Safdie,
31), in jail. Over the course of one
long night, Conny delves into the
underworld and engages in spasms of
violence in a desperate and dangerous
attempt to get his brother out of jail.
The supporting cast is equally praised
by Variety, including Jennifer Jason
Leigh, 55, as Conny’s “incandescently
wasted girlfriend.”
Josh, 33, and Ben directed the film,
and Josh and Ronald Bronstein,
43, wrote the screenplay. My guess
is that Hollywood has finally noticed
the brothers and is now trying to get
them to direct somewhat more popular
material. Time will tell.
OVER ON DISNEY
That’s So Raven was a Disney Channel
series that ran from 2003-2007, and
starred Raven-Symoné as Raven, an
African-American teen with psychic
powers. Anneliese van der Pol, now
29, played Chelsea, Raven’s best
friend. On July 21, the Disney Channel
revived the show under the title
Raven’s Home. Raven and Chelsea are
now divorced moms raising their chil-
dren in a shared home.
Van der Pol was born in the
Netherlands, the daughter of a non-
Jewish Dutch father and an American
Jewish mother. She was named after
Anne Frank. She grew up in America
and was raised Jewish. Recently, van
der Pol told E! TV that in real life: “I run
a nice Jewish home — the toilet seat
has to be down.”
Josh (left) and Ben Safdie
Van der Pol
Seinfeld
LARRY AND JERRY IN THE NEWS
The old partners Jerry Seinfeld, 63,
and Larry David, 70, were back in the
news recently. David, while promoting
the upcoming revival of his HBO series,
Curb Your Enthusiasm, confirmed that
he and Sen. Bernie Sanders, 75, are
related (“I forget,” David said, “like
third cousins or something like that.”).
It was already known that the two
would appear on one episode of the
upcoming season of the PBS series
Finding Your Roots. A reporter who had
seen an advance DVD copy of the epi-
sode asked David about being related
to Sanders — and David confirmed
they were related.
Seinfeld, while appearing on come-
dian Norm MacDonald’s podcast, said
that he would tell him the “best Jew
joke of all-time,” but that MacDonald
and other non-Jews probably wouldn’t
get it. The joke: “Two Gentile business-
men meet on the street. One of them
says, ‘How’s business?’ The other
one says, “Great.” As Jerry predicted,
MacDonald did not understand it. •