34 May 16 • 2019
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BIG BANG’
S FINAL BLAST
The series finale of the hit sit-com Big
Bang Theory airs at 8 p.m.
Thursday, May 16, on CBS.
It’
s a two-part, one-hour
show. A half-hour look-back
special show, featuring cast
interviews, will air imme-
diately after the two final
regular episodes.
I liked Big Bang, one of
the most “Jewy” shows
on TV. The show’
s cre-
ator (Chuck Lorre, 66) is
Jewish, as are four of the
main cast members (Mayim
Bialik, 43; Kevin Sussman,
48; Melissa Rauch and
Simon Helberg, both 38). I
suspect that Raj, the Indian-
American main character,
will marry in one of final
episodes. If so, we will
probably see Raj’
s father,
a recurring character. Raj’
s
father is played by Brian
George, 66, who was born
in Israel, the son of Indian/
Iraqi Jewish parents.

AT THE MOVIES
A Dog’
s Journey is a film
sequel to the hit 2017 film
A Dog’
s Purpose. Both are
based on a series of novels
that tell their story from
the dog’
s perspective. The
novels/films center on a dog
named Bailey who changes
the lives of his human fam-
ilies. Josh Gad, 38, returns
as the voice of Bailey. Opens
Friday, May 17.
Trial by Fire tells the
true story of Cameron Todd
Willingham, who was exe-
cuted in Texas for killing his
three children after scien-
tific and expert testimony
that bolstered his claim of
innocence was suppressed.
Laura Dern co-stars. The
film was directed by Edward
Zwick, 66 (Glory, Defiance). Opens May
17, Landmark Theater, Royal Oak.

ON TV AND STREAMING
Blood and Treasure, a new CBS series,

premieres on Tuesday, May 21. The first
two episodes, “The Curse of Cleopatra
— Parts I and II,” are shown together on
the 21st (9-11 p. m.). Two good-looking
people, Matt Barr and Sofia Pernas, star
as, respectively, a brilliant antiquities
expert and a cunning art
thief who team up to catch a
ruthless terrorist who funds
his attacks through stolen
treasure. Israeli actor Oded
Fehr, 48, who is best known
for co-starring in the hit
movie The Mummy (1999),
has a co-starring role as
the terrorist Karim Farouk.
Appearing in a recurring
role (Roarke) is Canadian-
American actress Anna Silk,
45. She met her husband,
Scott Cooperman, at a Los
Angeles acting workshop
in 2007. They wed civilly
in 2009 and in a Jewish
ceremony in 2011, after Silk
converted to Judaism. They
now have two young sons,
Samuel and Levi Aaron.
An original Hulu series,
Catch-22, begins streaming
on May 17. Of course, it is
based on the famous satiri-
cal novel (1961) of the same
name by Joseph Heller
(1923-1999). The novel
was inspired by Heller’
s
own experience in WWII. He
enlisted at 19 and flew 60
combat missions on a B-25
as the plane’
s bombardier.
His novel (and the series)
centers on Yossarian, a bom-
bardier. Yossarian’
s big prob-
lem is that the number of
missions he has to fly until
he is rotated home keeps on
being raised. There is a lot
of other nasty and/or absurd
mishegoss going on and the
novel’
s description of that
misigash caught the wave
of the anti-establishment
sentiment of the ’
60s and
made the novel a favorite of
the hip. Will it play as well
today? We’
ll see. The series
was produced by George Clooney and he
has a co-starring role. Grant Heslov, 55,
who has been Clooney’
s producing part-
ner for decades, has a big supporting role
as Doc Daneeka. ■

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