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42 | DECEMBER 5 • 2019
STREAMING CHOICES
Last month, the new Disney
Plus cable channel premiered
the first season of High
School Musical: The Musical.
New episodes air on Friday.
The premise is that a high
school teacher decides to
put on a stage version of the
TV show. A very handsome
actor (Joshua Bassett) plays
Ricky, one of the male leads.
Ricky’
s best friend, “Big Red,”
is played by Long Island native
Larry Saperstein, 21. This is
Saperstein’
s first big TV role.
The red-haired lead has been
involved with musical theater
since he was about 10.
The first, four-episode season
of the original Netflix docu-
mentary series The Movies that
Made Us will be released Nov.
29 in its entirety. The creator is
Brian Wolk-Weiss, 43. He
grew-up, he says, “in a family of
dentists and lawyers.” He quick-
ly went from a production assis-
tant to managing comedians
and producing comedy specials
for HBO and others.
The movie series episodes
cover Home Alone, Ghostbusters,
Die Hard and Dirty Dancing.
Home Alone featured Daniel
Stern, now 62, as one of the
two hapless burglars, and he will
appear in the Home Alone epi-
sode. Ghostbusters’
kosher ties
include director Ivan Reitman,
now 73; the late Harold Ramis,
who co-wrote and co-starred
in the film; and Rick Moranis,
now 65, who had a big sup-
porting role. Finally, there’
s Dirty
Dancing, the “most Jewish” film
ever that never mentioned the
word “Jewish.” Clearly, it was
about the romance of a young
Jewish woman (Jennifer Grey,
now 59) and a non-Jewish
employee of a Borscht Belt hotel
(the late Patrick Swayze). Written
by Eleanor Bergstein, now 81,
Dancing co-starred Grey and the
late Jack Weston as the hotel
owner.
The new Apple (plus) TV
app started premiering original
shows in November. The Truth
Be Told starts on Friday, Dec. 6.
Octavia Spencer stars as Poppy,
a popular true crime podcaster
who helped convict Warren Case
(Aaron Paul) of the murder of the
father of identical twins. Years
later, she’
s moved to research
whether he was framed, as
he claims. Lizzy Caplan, 37,
co-stars, playing both identical
twins.
The entire third season of
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a
“very Jewish” series, will be
released Dec. 6 by Amazon
Video.
MORE PROFOUND
On Nov. 21, British actor, screen-
writer and director Sacha Baron
Cohen, 48, was honored by
the Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) at its “Never or Now”
conference. The ADL noted in
advance publicity that much of
his work sheds light on real big-
ots through the prism of satirical
humor. His speech (youtube.
com/watch?v=tDTOQUvpw7I)
caused a stir because he
took on much of Silicon Valley
(especially Facebook’
s Mark
Zuckerberg) for its willingness
to host hate speech.
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