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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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