26 January 3 • 2019
jn

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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