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October 4 • 2018

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NATE BLOOM COLUMNIST

MORE NEW TV SEASON NOTES:
CATCH-UP AND LOOK AHEAD
The first eight-episode season
of Forever is now streaming on
Amazon. It stars Fred Armisen and
Maya Rudolph, 46, as a
long-married couple. They
love each other, but are
caught in the rut of doing
the same things. They try
to shake things up just a
little and that “little” has
an unexpected effect on
their whole existence. The
critics’ reviews range from
good to great. I watched
the whole first season and I Maya Rudolph
liked this series very much.
I can’t provide more details
because anyone’s enjoy-
ment of the show is based
a great deal on really unex-
pected plot twists.
Catherine Keener and
Noah Robbins, 27, co-star
in the last six episodes.
Robbins plays Mark, a
17-year old skateboard-
er. He starred in a 2009
Noah Robbins
Broadway revival of Brighton
Beach Memories and in
Grease: Live, a 2016 Fox TV
special.
Star Wars: Resistance
starts on the Disney
Channel on Oct. 7 (10
p.m.). This series is set
decades after the events
in the Return of the Jedi
and six months before
the events of The Force
Gilda Radner
Awakens. Resistance fol-
lows a pilot who is recruited
to spy on the growing threat
of the First Order. Josh
Brener (Nelson “Big Head”
Bighetti on Silicon Valley),
33, is a series regular.

AT THE MOVIES
Love, Gilda, a documen-
tary, opened at the Maple
Theater last Friday, Sept.
Mark Ronson
28, and almost certainly
will play the week of Oct.
5-Oct. 11. It’s about the
great comedian Gilda Radner (1946-
1989). The daughter of affluent parents,
Radner was born in Detroit and attend-

ed University of Michigan before drop-
ping out in her senior year to star in the
musical Godspell in Toronto. Godspell
was followed by her joining the famous
Second City comedy troupe in Toronto
and, shortly thereafter,
her selection (1975) as
an original cast member
of Saturday Night Live. At
SNL, she became a comedy
icon as she created memo-
rable characters like Emily
Litella (modeled after her
childhood nanny).
Love, Gilda has received
good, but not great reviews.
Radner had a complicated
personal life and suffered
from a lot of problems
(like an eating disorder)
that preceded the ovarian
cancer that took her life.
Most critics say the film
doesn’t dive deep enough
into her personal/health
problems or the ups-and-
downs of her marriage to
Gene Wilder, her second
husband; however, critics
say the documentary does
work well as a career ret-
rospective — most notably
great, largely unseen clips
of Gilda performing after
leaving SNL.
Opening “wide” on Oct.
5 is the fourth film pro-
duction of A Star is Born.
Lady Gaga stars as Aly, a
struggling musical artist
who becomes romantical-
ly involved with Jackson
Maine, a big musical star
(played by Bradley Cooper,
who also directed the
film and co-wrote it). The
film turns tragic as Aly’s
star rises and Maine’s
star dims. The script was
co-written by Oscar-winner
Eric Roth (Forrest Gump),
73. The songs are all new,
and many were written by
Lady Gaga. Top producer/
songwriter Mark Ronson,
43, co-wrote one tune
(“Shallow”) and Diane Warren, 62,
a nine-time Oscar nominee, co-wrote
another (“Why Did You Do That?”). ■