46 | NOVEMBER 28 • 2019

Arts&Life

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SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
A Beautiful Day in the
Neighborhood opened Nov. 22
and is still playing everywhere.
It’
s about Fred Rogers, the late
beloved children’
s program host.
Tom Hanks, often referred to as
the nicest man in showbiz, plays
Rogers, a truly wonderful and
caring man. Rogers’
story is told
through the eyes of a journalist
(Matthew Rhys) assigned to write
a magazine profile of Rogers.
Fred Rogers lived in Pittsburgh’
s
Squirrel Hill neighborhood and that
is where his TV shows were made.
Squirrel Hill is also the site of the
Tree of Life synagogue, which
was attacked in October 2018.
The neighborhood has always had
a large Jewish population and
Rogers, an ordained minister, was
on great terms with his Jewish
neighbors.
Beautiful was filmed in
Pittsburgh, just before the temple
shooting. The film was directed
by Marielle Heller, 40. A few
weeks after the shooting, Heller
told a podcaster: “It was very
weird … to get to know a city so
well … and feel like it was our
new home and then leave and
have this horrible tragedy hap-
pen. What got me so much was
knowing how much I love that
city and then to see that disease
kind of make its way there. My
family is Jewish. I obviously
feel connected. It’
s upsetting for
every single person in the world
but it felt particularly personal.”

Heller’
s previous films include
Diary of a Teenage Girl and Can
You Ever Forgive Me? After Heller
was signed as Neighborhood
director, the producers told
her they dreamed of signing
Tom Hanks. Well, turns out she
knew Hanks, he liked her work
and, after one brief meeting, he
signed on.
Opening Nov. 29 is Knives Out,
described as a “witty and stylish
whodunit guaranteed to keep
audiences guessing until the very
end.” Christopher Plummer plays
Harlan, a famous crime novelist
murdered on his estate right after
his 85th birthday. A debonair
detective, played by Daniel James
Bond Craig, is hired to investigate.
The suspects are played by an all-
star cast that includes Jamie Lee
Curtis, 60, as Harlan’
s daughter,
Linda.

NOW STREAMING
The first 10-episode season of
the Hulu original comedy series
Dollface began streaming in its
entirety Nov. 15. Kat Dennings,
33, stars as Jules, who works for
a company that markets to young
women. In the first scene, Jules’

longtime boyfriend breaks up with
her. In scenes both real and fan-
tasized, we see Jules react to the
break-up by trying to make friends
with other women. This isn’
t easy,
but she does make a friend of Izzy,
a co-worker (Esther Povitsky, 31).
I agree with Variety, which said, in
short: The acting is very good, the
scripts need real work and poten-
tially Dollface could become very
good.

NATE BLOOM
COLUMNIST

CLAIRE FOLGER/LIONSGATE

Don Johnson and
Jamie Lee Curtis
in Knives Out

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