30 January 17 • 2019
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CNN PRESENTS GILDA
Even CNN is getting into the business
of showing fi
lms. On Jan.1, they fi
rst
broadcast/streamed Love,
Gilda, a very-well reviewed
2018 documentary about
comedian Gilda Radner
(1946-1989) that played in
a limited number of movie
theaters last year. As I write
this, Love is regularly being
re-shown on CNN during
its regular schedule and
is available to subscribers
via CNN on-demand. The
fi
lmmaker, Lisa Dapolito,
deftly uses Gilda’
s diaries,
home movies, audiotapes,
performance videos and
interviews with colleagues
and family members.
Jewish interviewees include
Gilda’
s brother and neph-
ew, her writing partner
Alan Zweibel, 68, (he also
co-produced the fi
lm), SNL
creator Lorne Michaels, 74,
musician Paul Shaffer, 69,
and SNL cast mate Laraine
Newman, 66. Radner, of
course, was born and raised
in Detroit and, via her dia-
ries, we hear her talk about
attending the University
Liggett School in Grosse
Point and the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor.

TV DOINGS
Fam is a sit-com that
premiered on CBS on
Thursday, Jan 10, at 9:30
p.m. Nina Dobrev stars as
Clem, a woman who seems
to have a perfect life that
includes an adoring fi
ancé
(Tone Bell). But perfection
ends when her out-of-con-
trol 16-year-old half-sister,
Shannon (Odessa Adlon,
17), shows up unannounced
in need of a place to stay.
This is the fi
rst big role
for Adlon, the daughter of
actress/writer/director Pamela Adlon,
52. Pamela Adlon’
s hit FX series Better
Things features her as the single moth-

er of three daughters. In real life, she is
the single mother of three daughters.
However, she didn’
t use any of her real
daughters to play her TV daughter. (Pilot
episode can be viewed free online or via
on-demand).
Passage, a sci-fi
drama, started on
Fox on Monday, Jan. 14, at
9 p.m. Mark-Paul Goss-
elaar, who had a Jewish
grandfather, stars as Brad
Wolgast, a Federal agent
tasked with bringing Amy,
a young girl, to a super-se-
cret medical base where
she will be a test subject
for a dangerous virus that
has the potential to end all
disease. The downside is
things could go very wrong
and the virus could all end
all life on Earth. Wolgast
bonds with Amy, becoming
her surrogate father. While
trying to protect her, he
becomes aware of a lot
of other really weird and
dangerous things going
on at the base. He turns to
his ex-wife, Dr. Lilia Kyle,
for help. Kyle is played
by Emmanuelle Chriqui,
43, (Entourage). Pilot can
be viewed free online or
on-demand.
Howie Mandel Presents
Howie Mandel at the How-
ie Mandel Comedy Club
premieres on Showtime
on Friday, Jan. 18, at 10
p.m. Mandel, 63, takes the
stage of an Atlantic City
comedy club that bears his
name. It’
s his fi
rst stand-
up special in 20 years.

Try This
Put “Jewish” into the
respective Netfl
ix and
Amazon search engines.
On Netfl
ix, I got about 90
results. Many are about
the Holocaust, but at
least half are about other
aspects of Jewish/Israeli
life. On Amazon, I got an
astonishing 864 results.
The vast majority are free
with Prime membership. It’
s really an
amazing collection of just about every
aspect of Jewish life. ■

NATE BLOOM

COLUMNIST

Emmanuelle Chriqui

Gilda Radner

Howie Mandel

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