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Home Again, a romantic comedy,
opens on Friday, Sept. 7. It marks the
directorial and screenwriting debut
of Hallie Meyers-Shyer, 30. Hallie is
the daughter of Nancy Meyers, 67,
and Meyers’ ex-husband, Charles
Shyer, 65. Charles, whose late
father, Melville, was a film director,
teamed up with Nancy to write Private
Benjamin (1979) and they wed in
1980. From then, until their divorce
in 1999, they made a series of hit
“rom-coms,” including Irreconcilable
Differences, Baby Boom, Father of the
Bride and The Parent Trap. Charles
directed the first three, with Nancy
directing the last. Since they split,
Charles hasn’t had a hit. But Nancy
remained on a hot streak, directing
What Women Want, Something’s Got to
Give, The Holiday and It’s Complicated.
She wrote the last two films, also.
While Complicated and Nancy’s latest
film, The Intern (2015), did well at the
box office, critics noticed a big fall off
in quality.
Romantic comedies appeal most to
the young and almost always feature
young characters. So, Nancy taking on
producing Home Again, while Hallie
writes and directs, is probably a good
use of family resources.
Home stars Reese Witherspoon as
Alice, a single mother of two young
daughters who splits up with her
husband, Austen (Michael Sheen). On
her 40th birthday, she parties hard
and ends up inviting three young film-
makers to crash for a while at her Los
Angeles home (Nat Wolff, 22, Jon
Rudnitsky, 27, and Pico Alexander).
She begins a romantic affair with the
much-younger guy played by Pico.
More complications ensue when
Austen wants to resume their mar-
riage.
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On Sunday, Sept. 10, the series The
Deuce premieres on HBO. It was co-
created by David Simon, 57 (The
Wire, Treme). The setting is the tawdry
scene in New York’s Times Square
in the early 1970s. The series was
inspired by a set of real-life twins who
told Simon how the Mafia got into
making porn films early on and how
they became the Mafia’s porn-film
front guys.
Maggie Gyllenhaal, 39, co-stars
as Eileen “Candy” Merrell, a prosti-
tute who is smart enough to realize
Meyers and Meyers-Shyer
Gyllenhaal
Levieva
that the about-to-boom porn indus-
try is the way for her to get off the
street and make some real money.
James Franco, 39, plays twin broth-
ers Vincent and Frank Martino, who
become the Mafia’s “front” guys.
Also appearing in a main cast part is
Margarita Levieva, 37. Maybe this
talented actress has finally found a
breakthrough part. She plays Abby,
an adventurous college student who
strikes up a relationship with Vincent.
David Krumholtz (Numb3ers) has a
recurring part as Harvey Wasserman,
an uber-sleazy porn producer. By
the way, in recent roles, Krumholtz,
37, has put on weight — you’ll see
that his current corpulence fits the
Wasserman role, but I hope it isn’t a
permanent look. He’s almost unrecog-
nizable as Wasserman. •