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AT THE MOVIES
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Originally scheduled to open June 29
at the Maple Theater, Leave No Trace
will now open there on July 20 and at
the Landmark Main Art Theatre in Royal
Oak on July 13. This film has got real
Oscar buzz, so I’ll re-cap. Ben Foster,
37, stars as the father of a teen daugh-
ter. For years, they live happily off the
grid in a huge Oregon park before being
discovered and placed in urban shelters.
They hate their new surroundings and
attempt to return to the wilderness.
The director is Debra Granik, 55, who
also directed Winter’s Bone (2010),
an acclaimed film about the struggle
of a poor Appalachian teen (Jennifer
Lawrence) to hold her family together.
Propelled by a good script, great direc-
tion and a breakthough performance by
Lawrence — this film hit most viewers
in the kishkas even though the charac-
ters came from a milieu that is utterly
unfamiliar to most Americans. It looks
like Granik has worked this same magic
in No Trace.
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Debra Granik
SEINFELD ON NETFLIX AND ON BARR
The hit interview show Comedians in
Cars Getting Coffee, hosted by Jerry
Seinfeld, 64, began streaming on Netflix
last Friday (it moved over from Crackle,
another streaming service). The 12-epi-
sode season includes an interview with
the late Jerry Lewis.
Seinfeld recently weighed in on
the whole controversy surrounding
Roseanne Barr, 65. Among other things,
he suggested that another actress be
hired to play the Roseanne character
and not kill that character off as reports
suggest the show’s producers are plan-
ning. He said: “I think they should get
another Roseanne. They brought Dan
Conner back; he was dead and they
brought him back. So, why can’t we
get another Roseanne? There are other
funny women that could do that part.”
(Dan was killed off in the original series
and his death was explained away in the
revival as a dream that Roseanne had).
I beg to differ with Mr. Seinfeld. Sure,
Dan was killed off and two actresses
played the part of Roseanne’s older
daughter in the original series. But
the “make-or-break” pressure on any
actress would be enormous.
A MUSICAL CLUELESS
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Ben Foster
The odds are better that Clueless, the hit
1995 film starring Alicia Silverstone,
41, and Paul Rudd, 49, can be turned
into a hit off-Broadway musical. It’s set
Jerry Seinfeld
Roseanne Barr
to open in November. Amy Heckerling,
64, who directed and wrote the film, is
directing and writing the musical. The
stage show will feature ’90s pop hits
and not original songs. •