26 January 3 • 2019
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SAMBERG TIME
It’
s a big week for Andy Samberg,
40 on Jan. 6, he’
ll co-host the Golden
Globe awards (“Ready for
our Closeup,” p. 24). On
Jan. 8, the new season of
the PBS celebrity ancestry
series, Finding Your Roots,
begins and Samberg is
one of the two celebrities
whose ancestry is explored
(the other is George R.
R. Martin, the author of
the Game of Thrones
books). Back in August,
a Roots press release
dropped a big hint about
this episode’
s content:
“Highlights include a
search for Andy Samberg’
s
biological grandparents
…” As I said in August, I
gather, from this release,
that either Andy’
s (Jewish)
mother or his (Jewish)
father was adopted. My
educated guess, based
on a lot of clues, is that
it was his mother who
was adopted and I won’
t
be that surprised if she’
s
“biologically” Jewish (airs
first on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at
8 p.m., PBS).
AT THE MOVIES
AND STREAMING
On the Basis of Sex is a
bio-pic about Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, 85, and
her late husband, attorney
Martin Ginsburg (1932-2010). The
film opens at the Maple Theater in
Bloomfield Hills on Jan. 4th and the
Landmark Main Art Theater in Royal
Oak on the Jan. 11. The Justice and
her late husband had a truly wonderful
marriage. They fully supported each
other in their home and in their
careers. For example, Ruth saw her
husband through a battle with cancer
when he was in law school. Martin
shared the childcare, housework
and cooked most of the family’
s
meals. The Justice has often said her
husband was not the typical ’
50s-era
man — he saw no reason why women
shouldn’
t be treated equally and he
fully supported his wife’
s legal career.
The film’
s climax comes
when the couple team
up in 1972 to argue,
and win, a landmark
sex-discrimination case.
Felicity Jones plays Ruth
and Armie Hammer plays
Martin (the “gorgeous”
Hammer is not absurd as
Martin. Mr. Ginsburg was
a very handsome man).
By the way, the excellent
2017 documentary on the
Justice, RBG, is available
(for a fee) on all streaming
services and free if you
are a Hulu subscriber.
By coincidence,
another fi
lm about an
extraordinary Jewish
married couple is now
streaming. Netfl
ix recently
added the documentary
Harold and Lillian: A Love
Story (2017). Harold and
Lillian Michelson were
a legendary Hollywood
couple. Harold was a top
story board creator and
often verged into being
a major fi
lm’
s unsung
director. Lillian ran the
best fi
lm research library
in Hollywood. They came
to Hollywood with nothing,
but they held it together in
the face of many personal
and career obstacles. Like
the Ginsburgs, a key to
their success was their unfl
inching
support of each other.
If Amazon helps fund a fi
lm, it often
appears on the Amazon Prime Video
streaming service not that long after
it opened in theaters. This is the case
with the fi
lm Beautiful Boy. It will
begin streaming on Amazon on Jan. 4.
As noted in “Ready for our Closeup,”
a Beautiful Boy co-star, Timothee
Chalamet, 24, is nominated for a best
supporting actor Globe.■
NATE BLOOM
COLUMNIST
Andy Samberg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Lillian and Harold
Michelson
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