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ITS QUITE A STORY:
HERE’S WHAT I KNOW

I’ve previously report-
ed that Timothée
Chalamet, 24, who was
nominated for the lead-
ing actor Oscar for play-
ing a young Jewish man
in Call Me by Your Name, Chalamet
is the son of an American
Jewish mother and a
French Protestant father.
In an interview exchange,
he seemed to call himself
Jewish. I don’t usually
report much on the non-
Jewish side of a celeb’s
family, but there’s a
good, and maybe great
“Jewish story” on that
side of Chalamet’s fam-
ily. His father, Marc, and
late paternal grandfather, Braff
Roger, came from a small
French village called Le
Chambon-Sur-Lignon
(“Chambon”). Growing
up, Timothée spent his
summers there.
In 1990, Chambon was
one of two municipalities
collectively honored as
the Righteous Among the
Nations by Yad Vashem
in Israel for saving Jews
during the Holocaust.
Shandling
These two towns remain
the only to be so honored.
French Protestants, usu-
ally called Huguenots,
were viciously persecuted
by the Catholic kings of
France during the 16th,
17th and 18th centuries,
and many fled to England
and America. However,
Chambon is in an isolated
location, and this isola-
tion allowed the town to
remain overwhelmingly
Apatow
Protestant.
In 1940, the Germans
occupied France. Led by two Protestant
ministers (André Trocmé and deputy
pastor Edouard Theis), the villagers of
Chambon did everything imaginable to
help Jews, including hiding them in local
homes and public buildings. Estimates
vary on how many Jews they saved
(800-3,000). Whatever the number, it
was heroism with considerable risk to
themselves. One of Trocmé’s cousins,
Daniel, was sent to a concentration camp
and murdered.

A friend discovered
that Roger Chalamet,
who died in 1985, was a
Protestant minister, born
in either 1926 or 1928. In
any event, he was clearly
old enough to have wit-
nessed the occupation
and the heroism of his
fellow villagers and per-
haps he participated in
this heroism himself. One
can reasonably speculate
that his decision to be a
minister was inspired by
the heroism of his home-
town pastors. So far, only
one French publication
has noted the actor’s ties
to this town. There was
little in the way of details
— just that Chambon is
proud of the young actor.
As I learn more, I will
report it because, as I
told my friend, “What are
the odds that an Oscar-
nominated American
actor with a Jewish
mother would have such
strong ties to a French
town of less than 3,000
people with such a won-
derful Jewish story?”

TV CATCH-UP

Zach Braff, 42, the
former star of Scrubs,
returned to series TV
with the ABC show
Alex, Inc. He plays
Alex Schuman, a radio
journalist, husband
and father of two, who
decides to quit his
job and start his own
company (debuted
Wednesady, March 28,
at 8:30 p.m.). Over on
HBO is the two-part
documentary The Zen
of Garry Shandling. The
biographical tribute to
the late comedian Garry
Shandling premiered on
March 26 and 27. The director is Judd
Apatow, 50. Early in his career, Apatow
wrote for Shandling and discovered in
Shandling’s journals that Shandling made
a conscious decision to mentor him and
others. Apatow told Variety, “He wanted
to help people and he thought that was
the win in life, to help people.” There are
tons of clips and home movies. The more
than 40 interviewees include Sacha
Baron Cohen, Jon Favreau, Jerry
Seinfeld and Sarah Silverman. •

