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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