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7 Days at Entebbe opens
March 16 — it’s the fifth
movie to dramatize the
famous Israeli raid in 1976
that rescued 102 Israelis
from captivity at the
Entebbe airport in Uganda. Lister-Jones
The Israelis had been pas-
sengers on an Air France
plane that was hijacked
by four German far-left
radicals and several
Palestinians who belonged
to a non-PLO terror group.
The film is directed by
Brazilian Jose Padilha, best
known for hit Brazilian
action pics and for direct-
ing two episodes of the
Pally
Netflix series Narcos.
I’ll cut here to the bot-
tom line: Based on many
film festival reviews, the
consensus is to not waste
your money on a theater
showing — but if you are
fascinated by the raid,
do rent it to get another
take. Leading review-
ers (Hollywood Reporter,
Variety, etc.) say that
the film is curiously flat.
The most controversial
Rust and Arfin
detail is the death of raid
leader Yoni Netanyahu
(the brother of the current Israeli prime
minister) at the start of the raid and not
near its climax, as many reports said —
and other films depicted. Padhila says
he relied on info from other commandos
on the raid. Rosamund Pike and Daniel
Bruhl play two of the German hijackers
and most reviewers think their depic-
tion is too sympathetic. On the other
hand, the Palestinians, reviews say, are
not “gussied up.” The best part, reviews
said, is the depiction of the arguments in
Jerusalem between Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and others about what to do.
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On Feb. 28, Zoe Lister-Jones, 35,
appeared on the Stephen Colbert show to
promote her CBS TV series Life in Pieces.
Colbert asked her about her last name and
she replied her parents hyphenated their
last names into one name. She added that
she had a different first name for the first
10 days of her life. Her (Jewish) mother,
she explained, was into kabbalah (Jewish
mysticism) and it was an old belief to give
a child a “terrible, crappy name for the first
10 days of its life and it will keep evil spirits
away … so she named me Dirt Pan. It
worked, I’m still here.”
Colbert mentioned her
2017 film, Band Aid, which I
recently saw for the first time on
Showtime. While I knew the film
received good reviews, I liked it
much more than I thought I would.
Lister-Jones wrote and directed
this film about a couple (Lister-
Jones and Adam Pally, 35) who
work out their problems in the
marriage via forming a band that
sings songs about their marital
problems.
The movie couple is Jewish,
but relaxed about it, and Jewish
content comes up naturally. Their
problems are “achingly” realistic.
Fred Armisen is wonderful as the
quirky neighbor they enlist to play
drums. Trust me: worth watching
on Showtime or streaming for $4.
The Netflix series Love, a quirky
romantic comedy with drama,
started streaming its entire third
and final season on Friday, March
9. The series was co-created by
Judd Apatow, 50, Lesley Arfin
(a writer for Girls), 38, and Paul
Rust, 36. I watched the first two
seasons and it’s worth your time.
Rust plays Gus, a decent, smart
and kind guy who aspires to be
a scriptwriter. Gus, who looks
like a dark-haired Woody Allen,
is in an off-and-on relationship
with Mickey, an attractive radio
program manager. She often
behaves badly and has drug and
alcohol problems.
In real life, Rust is married to
Arfin, a quite attractive woman who had an
alcohol problem she’s written about (she’s
now long sober). Gus, I should note, looks
so stereotypically Jewish that other char-
acters often ask Gus if he is Jewish and he
tells them that he isn’t, but everyone thinks
he is. In a publicity round table last year,
Rust told the story of how he met Arfin.
They were both at the same party, and Arfin
asked Sarah Silverman whether he is a
member of the tribe. Silverman told her, “If
he’s not, his face should sue God.”
OOPS CORNER
In my last column, I said that Paramount
cable station series Heathers, based on a
1988 film, was set to begin on March 7.
Like the original, the series includes mur-
ders of some high school students. This plot
line didn’t sit well with Paramount in light
of the recent real-life Florida high school
shooting and Heathers has been shelved for
the foreseeable future.
Also, I said that Jason Alexander, 58,
was going to guest star in an episode of
Young Sheldon set to air on March 15. The
info I got on that was wrong: Young Sheldon
is being bumped for the NCAA basketball
tournament and Alexander will appear
later this season. •