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May 31 • 2018

jn

How to Talk to Girls at Parties is a sci-
fi film based in part on the writings of
our Brit landsman, super-star fantasy
writer Neil Gaiman, 57 (Gaiman recently
played himself in a small but important
part on The Big Bang Theory). Adding
to Gaiman’s work was Parties script co-
writer John Cameron Mitchell (who had a
co-starring Jewish character in his most
famous work, Hedwig and the Angry
Inch).
Elle Fanning co-stars in Parties as a
1970s teen who sneaks out of her house
to attend punk parties. One night, she
and other friends meet up with a par-
ticularly cool group of teens — who are
really from another planet. Romance and
other stuff ensues. Opens May 31.

Neil Gaiman

Howard Stern

ON TV, STREAMING OR NOT

The new David Letterman talk show, My
Next Guest Needs No Introduction, on
Netflix, began its premiere season with
a rare interview with President Obama.
It ends its first season with “royalty”:
talk-show host Howard Stern, 64. Stern
has long dubbed himself the “King of All
Media.”
If you have only caught bits of Stern’s
most shocking or raunchy schtick
through the years, you might not be
aware that Stern is really smart and quite
articulate. He is also a strong and pretty
informed supporter of Israel (although
I doubt that topic will come up). I don’t
believe I have ever heard or seen Stern
be the guest (and not the host) for a full
one-hour interview. It will be interesting
to see if Letterman, with a lot of time,
will be able to explore some issues in
depth. Certainly, the topic of President
Trump will come up. Stern interviewed
Trump many times from 1993-2005 and
asked him many more questions, collec-
tively, than any other interviewer (includ-
ing Fox News personalities). It was on
Stern’s show in which then-businessman
Trump made two remarks that are con-
stantly brought up: That avoiding STDs
in the ’70s was his (Trump’s) Vietnam —
and that he (Trump) would date Ivanka
if she wasn’t his daughter. Begins
streaming on May 31.
The TVLand series Nobodies features
three real-life comedians who are trying
to make the big time. The series’ gim-
mick is that they run into many showbiz
people and solicit their advice or help.
Every episode has a well-known guest
star playing himself. Steven Spielberg,
71, is the guest star in the season finale
episode first airing on May 31, at 10
p.m. (many encore showings). One of
the three Nobodies, Larry Dorf, may be
Jewish, but there is very little biography

Steven Spielberg

Richard Goodwin in 1968

available on him.
The History Channel marks the 50th
anniversary of the death of Robert F.
Kennedy with a documentary about his
life featuring new interviews with fam-
ily members. (First airs on June 4 at 10
p.m.). Worth noting here is the death of
Richard Goodwin, age 86, on May 20.
He was a speechwriter for President
Kennedy, President Johnson and RFK
(and husband to historian Doris Kearns
Goodwin). He wrote the groundbreaking
and incredibly powerful anti-Apartheid
speech that RFK delivered to South
African students in 1966. In the ’50s,
Goodwin investigated TV quiz show scan-
dals for the federal government. He was
played by Rob Morrow, now 55, in the
very good movie Quiz Show (1994). •