CHINESE PEOPLE EAT HERE arts&life celebrity jews NATE BLOOM COLUMNIST FILMS: BIG SCREEN AND NETFLIX UPTOWN 6407 Orchard Lake Road (15 Mile & Orchard Lake) 313.974.7669 248.626.8585 DAILY DIM SUM & SUSHI DAILY DIM SUM uptownshangri-la.com TEXT / CALL 248-289-0885 NOW TO BOOK YOUR NEXT EVENT www.karaokedetroit.com Winner and Bronson, 1974 Roth PHOTO CREDIT MIDTOWN 4710 Cass Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201 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. Schumer and Fischer at their wedding SCHUMER GETS HITCHED We Bring The Musi K You B ¡“š‘’ŽŠ¡¥®ဘ Karaoke DJ Services Bar/Bat Mitzvahs | Sweet Sixteens | Corporate Events Private Parties | Weddings | Birthdays | After Parties 48 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. •