32 August 8 • 2019
jn

celebrity jews
arts&life

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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