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SORKIN ON BROADWAY 
I’
m not an unreserved fan of screen-
writer/playwright Aaron Sorkin, 57. He 
certainly has had his hits (A 
Few Good Men, The Social 
Network, Moneyball and 
Molly’
s Game). But I didn’
t 
like his movie Steve Jobs 
or his TV shows Studio 60 
on the Sunset Strip and 
Newsroom. I thought the 
always-reliable Jeff Daniels, 
a famous Michigander, 
was not well served by 
Newsroom scripts that often 
were too preachy and unre-
alistic. I thought I might be 
disappointed when I learned, 
early last year, that Sorkin 
had written a new version 
of To Kill a Mockingbird for 
the Broadway stage. Would 
Jeff Daniels, who was set 
to play lawyer Atticus Finch, 
be let down by Sorkin 
again? Well, I was wrong. 
The play opened to stellar 
reviews last month and is 
still packing them in. Sorkin 
deftly re-arranged (but did 
not alter) the material in the 
novel/movie and Daniels 
gives a performance that 
will almost certainly snare 
him a Tony. Also singled-out 
for critical praise were 
Adam Guettel, 54, and 
Gideon Glick, 30. Guettel, 
the grandson of the great 
Richard Rodgers, wrote the 
play’
s atmospheric score 
and Glick, who mostly grew 
up in Israel, co-stars as 
“Dill,” the young visitor from 
Georgia (adult actors play 
the children’
s parts). 

WEST SIDE STORY REMAKE
A new film version of the 
great musical West Side 
Story, directed by Steven 
Spielberg, 72, is now 
coming together. Of course, 
they will use the incredible 
score by the late Leonard Bernstein 
and Stephen Sondheim, now 88. Last 
year, Tony Kushner, 62, penned a new 

story for the musical. It’
s unclear what 
changes have been made to the original 
Arthur Laurents’
 script, but Kushner 
has said the Puerto Rican identity of the 
Sharks won’
t be changed. Casting is 
mostly done, with Ansel Elgort, who had 
a Jewish paternal grandfather, playing 
Tony, the male lead. Just 
last week, 17-year-old 
Rachel Zegler, was cast as 
Maria, the female lead. She 
was found in a nationwide 
casting call — and, no, 
shucks, she isn’
t Jewish 
“at all.” 
Logan Lerman, 26, 
(Perks of Being a Wallflower, 
Percy Jackson) has been 
cast to co-star in The Hunt, 
a 10-episode Amazon 
original series. Al Pacino 
will co-star. This is Pacino’
s 
first TV series. The setting 
is the 1970s. Lerman plays 
Jonah Heidelbaum. After his 
grandmother is murdered, 
Jonah tracks down the killer 
and finds himself encoun-
tering a mysterious organi-
zation called the Hunt. It is 
dedicated to hunting down 
Nazis living in America. 
Pacino plays a Nazi hunter 
who mentors Jonah. 

COLLEGE JEWS ON ICE 
Courtesy of Jewish Sports 
Review magazine, here are 
the tribe members from 
Michigan currently playing 
for a Division I college ice 
hockey teams and Jews 
from elsewhere playing for 
a Michigan Div. 1 tpeam: 
Ben Israel, a senior who 
plays for Colorado College, 
is a defenseman who 
hails from Bloomfield Hills; 
Strauss Mann, a freshman 
goalkeeper from Greenwich, 
Ct., plays for the Michigan 
Wolverines; and sopho-
more Quinton Hughes is 
a star defenseman on the 
Wolverines team. He’
s so 
good he was drafted by the 
NHL last year but chose to 
play another college year. 
Both his parents (his mom is Jewish) 
were college hockey stars. ■

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