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

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