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AT THE MOVIES
The action flick Rambo: Last Blood
opens on Sept. 20. Sylvester
Stallone returns as John Rambo,
a Vietnam War vet who is a killing
machine when angered. Last Blood
opens with Rambo working at an
American ranch on the Mexican
border. The daughter of a close
friend of his is kidnapped and
taken to Mexico. Rambo takes on a
Mexican drug cartel in his hunt for
her.
The director is Adrian Grunberg,
45ish. His Jewish parents left
Argentina for Spain when Grunberg
was young. He grew up in Spain.
He moved to Mexico about 20 years
ago and long worked in the Mexican
film industry. In 2004, Mel Gibson
hired him to be an assistant direc-
tor on Gibson’
s film Apocalypto,
which was set in Mexico. In 2012,
he worked with Gibson again in Get
the Gringo, a well-received action
film set in Mexico. It was the first
head directing job for Grunberg and
he co-wrote the film. By the way,
Grunberg says he likes Gibson,
and he learned a lot from him. I’
ll
just say that a lot of other Jewish
colleagues of Gibson have said the
same things. But, Mel has been
known to have another side, and it
isn’
t pretty.
NEW SHOWS: STREAMING
AND BROADCAST
Unbelievable, an eight-episode
mini-series, was released in its
entirety on Netflix on Sept. 13. It
follows Marie, a teen who was
charged with lying about being
raped, and the two female detec-
tives who follow a long path before
they arrive at the truth. The always-
good Toni Collette plays one of the
detectives. The series was co-cre-
ated by and co-written by Susannah
Grant, Pulitzer Prizewinner
Michael Chabon, 56, and Ayelet
Waldman, 54 (Chabon’
s wife). The
first three episodes were directed
by Lisa Cholodenko, 55 (The Kids
are Alright).
If you get the AXS cable/satel-
lite station, you can watch Paul
Shaffer Plus One. It began on Sept.
15 (new episodes on Sundays at
9 p.m.). It’
s also aired on Shaffer’
s
SiriusXM radio show. Ontario
native Paul Shaffer, 69, was the
original (1974) leader of the SNL
house band before leaving in 1982
to lead the house bands on David
Letterman’
s TV talk shows. In
Plus One, Shaffer talks to a lot of
famous folks (mostly musicians).
Season One guests include Detroit
native and Motown legend Smokey
Robinson, Steely Dan co-founder
Donald Fagen, 71, and Harry
Shearer, 75 (in his fictional per-
sona as Spinal Tap bassist Derek
Smalls).
Prodigal Son is a crime thriller
(with some dark humor) that pre-
mieres on Fox on Sept. 23 at 9
p.m. It centers on Malcolm Bright,
a law enforcement profiler who
is incredibly good at his job. He
knows how killers think. His gift
seems to be based on the fact that
his father, Martin Whitly, who is still
alive, was a notorious serial killer.
Halston Sage, 26, has a big sup-
porting role as Ainsley, Malcolm’
s
sister. She’
s a successful TV jour-
nalist with a good sense of humor
and that humor helps her maintain
a good relationship with her very
weird brother.
Stumptown starts on ABC
on Sept. 25 at 10:30 p.m. Cobie
Smulders stars as a tough pri-
vate investigator with a military
intelligence background. Camryn
Manheim (The Practice), 58, has
a biggish supporting role as police
lieutenant Cosgrove.
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BY GAGE SKIDMORE, WIKIMEDIA
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Zingerman’
s Roadhouse
in Ann Arbor is hosting a
pre-Rosh Hashanah dinner
with Joan Nathan, the James
Beard Award-winning cook-
book author (and a University
of Michigan grad), at 7 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 23, at the
restaurant.
Nathan, who has written
11 books and has been called
“the queen of Jewish cooking,”
will share Rosh Hashanah
traditions and stories from her
lifetime of traveling the globe.
The special dinner features
some of Nathan’
s recipes
recreated by the Roadhouse
staff — hummus with pre-
served lemon and cumin;
gefilte fish mold, carrot
Mahammar with dried clem-
entines, ricotta and fennel;
Moroccan lamb shanks with
carmelized onions and a dried
fruit sauce; Bene Israel fish
curry with fresh ginger, tama-
rind and cilantro; and dates in
brown butter with vanilla ice
cream, date syrup and halvah
crumble — all from Nathan’
s
King Solomon’
s Table.
“Rosh Hashanah is a new
beginning, a wonderful har-
vest festival,” she told the JN.
“I feel every holiday is good
because of the foods — old
and new. And, at the holidays,
there are foods you only have
one time a year. It’
s so import-
ant; it’
s a way Jews have held
on to tradition for so many
years.”
Nathan shared that she’
s
working on a new book, “a
memoir in food.”
Dinner courses will be
paired with wine selections
from Michigan’
s Laurentide
Winery.
Tickets are $100 per person.
Call (734) 663-3663 or visit
bit.ly/2khR6SM.
Zingerman’
s To Host
Joan Nathan For A
Rosh Hashanah Meal