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Opening on Friday, March 2, is Death
Wish, a remake of the 1974 Charles
Bronson film of the same name, directed
by the late Michael Winner. The original
film was actually anti-vigilante. Paul’s
(Bronson) wife is murdered and his
daughter sexually assaulted during a
home invasion. Instead of going after the
perpetrators, Paul invites the criminals
to mug him and then guns them down.
By the end of the film he’s a twisted and
broken man. The film was a hit because
it captured the zeitgeist of an era when
violent crime was soaring and policing
was ineffective.
The title still has marketability, so it’s
used to hype a pure revenge film directed
by Eli Roth, 45, who is mostly known
as a horror film director. The setup is
the same as the 1974 film, but this time
Paul (Bruce Willis) is a physician who
gruesomely enacts revenge on the home
invaders, including torturing them. This
film will make money, but won’t make
anybody’s mother proud.
Flint Town is an eight-part documentary
series that begins streaming on Netflix
on Friday, March 2. Two filmmakers (Drea
Cooper and Jessica Dimmock) rode with
the Flint, Mich., police for two years and
followed them as they tried to police a
high-crime city bedeviled by the cover-
up of the city’s water contamination and
decreasing resources. The producers are
Steven Golin, 62, and David Pritikin,
47. Anonymous Content, their production
company, greenlights a lot of quality TV.
Golin won a 2017 best film Oscar for pro-
ducing Spotlight.

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March 1 • 2018

jn

I was surprised when Amy Schumer,
36, wed Chris Fischer, 37, on Feb. 12 in
Malibu, Calif. It was a small wedding,
presided over by a comedian friend. I
would have been thrilled if Schumer had
wed a Jewish guy. Still, after reading
about Fischer’s background, the marriage
makes sense, even though the couple has
only known each other for three months.
Fischer is a chef who recently won
a “cooking Oscar” — a James Beard
Award — for his book, Beetlebung Farm
Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha’s
Vineyard. Beetlebung is the name of his
grandfather’s farm on Martha’s Vineyard.
His grandfather was a beloved lifelong
Vineyard resident whose farm was a
horticultural showplace. Shortly before his
grandfather’s death in 2011, at age 96,
Chris took over management of the farm.
Candidly, Chris said he did so because
his restaurant in New York had gone

belly-up. But now he’s a success — the
epitome of “farm-to-table” — running
a hit Vineyard bistro, while farming part
time. The obits of his grandfather and
his mother, a teacher who died in 2005,
describe a tightly knit family. Even though
Chris’ parents divorced, his mother’s
obit mentions how close she was to her
ex-husband’s children by a subsequent
marriage.
This all must be appealing to Schumer.
She lived through her mother’s three
failed marriages and the collapse of her
father’s business when she was about
10. Despite this, she remained steadfastly
loyal to her mother, her chronically ill
father (still alive) and her two siblings.
Her father, a suburban dad, bought a
hobby farm when he was wealthy. It was
sold when his business collapsed. Amy
loved the farm and bought it back in
2016. •