32 August 8 • 2019
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AT THE MOVIES
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
opened on July 26 and is still playing
in theaters “everywhere.”
This big-budget come-
dy/drama was directed
and written by Quentin
Tarantino. I will avoid
giving away the huge plot
twists and “real history
changes.” Suffice it to
say, it takes place in Los
Angeles in 1969 and Brad
Pitt stars as a washed-
up actor who improbably
gets drawn into contact
with the notorious Manson
family.
There aren’
t any Jewish
actors with a big part in
the film. However, two real
Jews figure prominently
in the plot: film director
Roman Polanski, now 85,
and talent agent Marvin
Schwartz (1927-1997).
In 1969, Polanski was
married to actress Sharon
Tate, a target of the
Manson family. Two other
real Jewish celebs are
portrayed in the film but
are less important: actor/
director Sam Wanamaker
(1919-1993) and “Mama”
Cass Elliot (1941-1974),
a member of the 1960s
rock group The Mamas
and the Papas.
Polanski, by the way,
has completed a new film
titled An Officer and a Spy.
It is about the infamous
Dreyfus Affair. Alfred
Dreyfus, a French Jewish
army captain, was falsely
accused (1894) of spying
for the Germans. He was
convicted and imprisoned
only to be finally exoner-
ated in 1906. The case
divided France and stoked
the fires of anti-Semitism.
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
WITH CAPT. KIRK
I recently came across William
Shatner’
s newest memoir, Live Long
and What I Learned Along the Way
(2018). Shatner, now 88, relates that
after Star Trek ended in 1969, he did
a lot of summer theater to pay the
bills. For several years, he drove from
one theater to another in his truck
and he’
d sleep in his truck, too. At the
end of one season, he looked forward
to leaving his last gig, in
Boston, and driving home
to L.A. to celebrate the
High Holidays with his
three daughters. Then a
call came. Rose Kennedy
really wanted him to
come to a party at the
Kennedy family com-
pound. Shatner agonized:
maybe, he thought, there
would be a big-time pro-
ducer at this party, and
he’
d get a part that would
change his life. But he
stuck to his guns and his
final answer was, “I have
to get home to my kids.”
By the way, Shatner is
the host of a new History
Channel series (start-
ed July 19) called The
Unexplained. It is pseu-
do-science mishegoss
(nonsense) that the
History Channel, once
a respected outlet, now
streams out. WWII and
Abraham Lincoln are out
at the History Channel.
Bigfoot and Ancient Aliens
are in.
OVER ON NETFLIX
Otherhood, an original
Netflix movie, begins
streaming Aug. 9. Capsule
plot: On Mother’
s Day,
three longtime friends,
played by Angela Bassett,
Patricia Arquette, 51,
and Felicity Huffman,
drive to New York City
to re-connect with their
adult sons. Along the way,
they realize their sons are
not the only ones whose
lives need to change.
They start to think hard
about how to redefine all
their important relation-
ships. The film was written
by and directed by Cindy Chupack,
54, the former co-head writer of Sex
and the City. ■
NATE BLOOM
COLUMNIST
Polanski
Elliot
Shatner
Arquette
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