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April 5 • 2018

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Blockers, which opens on April 5, is a
light but quite raunchy comedy. Basic
plot: When three parents in a nice
Midwestern suburb stumble upon their
daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at
prom, they launch a covert one-night
operation to stop the teens from sealing
the deal. Ike Barinoltz, 41, plays Hunter,
the father of Sam, one of the three
“pact” daughters. Hunter has a hard time
asserting his authority — he was ousted
from his home years before for messing
with the babysitter.
The daughters are played by three rel-
ative unknowns, including Gideon Adlon,
20, as Sam. This is Adlon’s first big part.
She is the daughter of actress/writer
Pamela Adlon, 51. Pamela had three
daughters, including Gideon, with her ex-
husband, director Percy Adlon, and raised
them mostly alone. She turned her expe-
rience as a very busy single mother into
the hit FX series Better Things. Gideon
looks a lot like Pamela.
Also, look for Gina Gershon, 55, in a
particularly raunchy sub-plot. By the way,
Blockers marks the directorial debut of
Kay Cannon, who wrote the Pitch Perfect
films. Some advance reviewers say that
Cannon has brought a fresh, “women’s
eye” to the “teen sex comedy” genre.

Gideon Adlon

Marcia Clark

Ben Schwartz

TV/STREAMING NEWS

On March 29, the A&E cable station
began a new original docuseries, Marcia
Clark Investigates the First 48. The
seven-episode series explores seven of
the most high-profile cases of the last
30 years. The first episode to air, on
Thursday, April 12 (9 p.m.), is about mur-
der victim Chandra Levy (many encore
showings). Clark, 64, is Jewish and was
born Marcia Klerks. She is famous as the
prosecutor who lost the O.J. Simpson
murder case.
On March 30, Netflix began streaming
Happy Anniversary, an original roman-
tic comedy/drama movie. It follows
the ups-and-downs of a couple (Ben
Schwartz, 36, and Noel Wells) over sev-
eral years. Schwartz had a recurring role
as the Jewish character Jean-Ralphio
Saperstein on Parks and Recreation.
Rachel Bloom, 30, the star of the
CW series My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, will
guest star on the CW horror/detective
show iZombie. Her episode will first air
on Monday, April 8, at 9 p.m. The show’s
backstory is unique: Liz, a medical stu-
dent, becomes a zombie, but retains
her rationality and human appearance
through a special diet. Rather than eat
the brains of the living, as most zombies
do, she takes a job at the medical exam-
iner’s morgue and (gross!) eats dead

Rachel Bloom

peoples’ brains, thereby staying sane and
human. As a bonus, she briefly takes on
some of dead person’s personality and
knows some of what they knew, which
helps her solve murder cases. Bloom
plays a “pretentious theater actor” whose
death Liz helps solve, aided by her very
special diet.
I’ll say more later about the now-
streaming new HBO documentary
about the late playwright Arthur Miller.
However, since it’s Passover, I will relate
one anecdote appropriately not in the
film. The late Tony Randall loved to tell
this story on talk shows, while admitting
it was probably made up. When Marilyn
Monroe, who was famously married to
Miller, was first served matzah ball soup,
she replied: “What do they do with the
other parts of the matzah?” •

