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November 2 • 2017
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NATE BLOOM
COLUMNIST
A JAW-DROPPING SHONDA
On Oct. 19, the Huffington Post did a
round-up of the actresses and female
writers who have accused Harvey
Weinstein, 65, of sexually harassing
them. There were 42 women listed,
accompanied by a photo and a summary
of their allegations. By the time you read
this, there will probably be more.
The list includes American actresses
Rosanna Arquette, now 58, and
Gwyneth Paltrow, now 45; French
actresses Eva Green, now 37, and
Judith Godreche, now 45; and Canadian
actress Mia Kirshner, now 42. Also on
the list, Canadian actress and filmmaker
Sarah Polley who discovered, as an adult,
that her biological father is Jewish.
Paltrow
AT THE MOVIES
Opening Friday, Nov. 3, (with an aside):
Thor: Ragnarok is a Marvel Studios film
based on the Thor comic book character.
In this one, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is in
a race to save his whole civilization from
his evil sister, the goddess Hela (Cate
Blanchett). Jeff Goldblum, 65, has a
big supporting part as the Grandmaster,
an “Elder of the Universe” who enjoys
manipulating others. The film’s director,
Taika Waititi, 42, gave Goldblum some
license to improvise “to make the char-
acter his own.”
Waititi, a New Zealander, is the son of
a Maori (native Polynesian) father and a
Jewish mother. Thor represents his move
into big-money, big-time filmmaking. A
2004 short film he made attracted notice
and this was followed by him helming
three small-budget feature films that
got great reviews. Almost as important
to Hollywood: All three films earned five
times what they cost to make.
By coincidence, last week the London
Jewish Chronicle profiled another South
Pacific Jew, actor Cooper Andrews,
30ish. He plays Jerry, a big axe-wielding
bodyguard on the hit TV series The
Walking Dead. Raised in the States,
he’s the son of a Samoan father and an
American Jewish mother.
Wonderstuck is based on an acclaimed
juvenile fiction novel of the same name
by Brian Selznick, 51 (who also wrote
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which was
adapted into a hit film). The film version
of Wonderstuck, like the book, takes
place in 1927 and 1977 and involves
complex family relationships. It centers
around a deaf 10-year-old boy. The cast
includes Michelle Williams and Julianne
Moore.
The director is Todd Haynes, 56
(Carol, Certain Women). Haynes’ mother
is Jewish and he identifies as Jewish.
Andrews
Hesse, c. 1963
EVA HESSE
Netflix is now streaming the 2016 docu-
mentary Eva Hesse. Eva Hesse, a painter
and sculptor, is regarded as a founder
of post-minimalist art. Her reputation,
already strong at the time of her death
from cancer, age 34, in 1970, has soared
since her passing.
Whatever you think of her art, the
story told in the documentary is a mov-
ing Jewish story, very well told. Hesse
was born in Nazi Germany in 1936, and
she and her parents and younger sister
(who’s interviewed) barely made it to the
States. The trauma of that time, we learn,
continued to affect Eva and her family as
long as she lived.
The documentary is enhanced by
readings from the extensive diaries that
Hesse kept. Actress Selma Blair, 45, a
Southfield native, reads from the diaries
as the voice of Hesse. (For a full feature
about the film when it was released, see
“A Moving Portrait” in the JN’s Aug. 18,
2016, issue, or online at thejewishnews.
com.) •