50 January 24 • 2019
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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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