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August 2 • 2018
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NATE BLOOM
COLUMNIST
AT THE MOVIES
Opens Friday, Aug. 3: The Spy Who
Dumped Me is an action/thriller and a
comedy. Audrey (Mila Kunis, 34) and
Morgan (Kate McKinnon) are best friends
and roommates. Audrey has a bad break-
up with her boyfriend (Justin Theroux)
and then he completely disappears.
He unexpectedly shows up at Audrey’s
apartment and it’s revealed he’s a spy
with assassins on his trail. The ladies
are drawn into this spy game. This takes
them to Europe, where they are chased
by nasty guys. If they figure it all out, and
stay alive, they just may save the world.
The film was directed and co-written
by Susanna Fogel, 38. She’s a regular
New Yorker contributor and the author
of the novel Nuclear Family, about a
Jewish family. This is her first big studio
film. She co-wrote and directed the good
indie film Life Partners (2014), about two
female friends whose relationship chang-
es when one gets a serious boyfriend
(Adam Brody).
Fogel told Entertainment Weekly that
she first signed McKinnon, but had to
meet with Kunis before signing her —
she had to be sure that Kunis would have
chemistry with McKinnon. She told EW:
“Once I sat down with Mila I learned that
she was a warm, funny, down-to-Earth
person, just like Kate.”
Mila Kunis
Lauren Miller Rogen and Seth Rogen
COULD BE FUN
Like Father is a comedy that begins
streaming on Netflix on Aug. 3.
Huntington Woods-native Kristen Bell
plays Rachel, who is left standing at the
wedding altar by her fiancé. Her father
(Kelsey Grammar), whom she’s not seen
since she was a small child, shows up
for the wedding, uninvited. They get real-
ly drunk together and decide to take her
pre-paid honeymoon cruise together.
Seth Rogen, 36, co-stars as a nice
guy Rachel meets on the cruise ship
and gradually sparks fly. The film was
directed and written by Seth’s wife,
Lauren Miller Rogen, 35. Ms. Rogen has
had smallish acting parts in a number of
films, including several starring her hus-
band. The only full-length feature she co-
starred in (and co-wrote) was the 2012
comedy For a Good Time Call, which I
found to be formulaic and not very funny.
I’m hoping Like Father is much better.
HE’S PROBABLY GOT
THE BARISTA VOTE
More than rumors are flying that Howard
Schultz, 67, the recently retired head
of Starbucks, and a Northern Michigan
University grad, is considering a presi-
Howard Schultz
dential run. Last month, he indicated
he was considering the idea in a CNBC
interview. This interview led to a spate
of articles, including a July 13 piece in
Vanity Fair, in which it was noted that
Starbucks investors were worried that a
Schultz run could result in a boycott of
the chain by Trump supporters.
I was struck by the opening of the
Vanity Fair story, which listed a group of
“centrist billionaires” who rumors say
might run for president. Vanity Fair didn’t
mention this, but all but one are Jewish
(former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg,
76; Disney head Bob Iger, 67, Citibank
honcho Jamie Dimon, and reality TV star/
entrepreneur Marc Cuban, 59.)
Schultz probably has a political leg up
on these guys because he came from a
really poor family and there is no Wall
Street, Hollywood or high-tech hocus-
pocus about how he made his money.
Plus, Jimmy Fallon gave him a campaign
slogan in a recent monologue: “Make
Americano Great Again.” •