40 | JANUARY 9 • 2020
AT THE MOVIES
Opening everywhere on Friday,
Jan. 10, are Just Mercy, Like a
Boss and 1917. Mercy tells the
true story of Walter McMillian
(1941-2001), a black man who
lived in a small Alabama town.
He was accused of the 1986
murder of a white store clerk
during a robbery. He was con-
victed though he had no criminal
record and many alibi witness-
es, including a police officer.
McMillian (Jamie Foxx) was sent
to death row where he remained
until 1993. His appeals were
handled by Bryan Stevenson
(Michael B. Jordan), a famous
African American civil rights
lawyer. Tim Blake Nelson, 55,
has a large supporting role as
Ralph Myers, a real-life (white)
career criminal who claimed he
and McMillian were partners in
the store robbery.
Like a Boss is a comedy
about Mel (Rose Byrne) and
Mia (Tiffany Haddish, 40), two
friends who start a beauty com-
pany together. They do well for a
time but run into financial trou-
ble. Salma Hayek plays Claire, a
rich woman who appears to be
a “white knight investor” who
will bail the company out. Claire
demands that Mel and Mia be
tougher in the way they run the
company — that they “act like
a boss.” Ari Graynor, 36, has a
largish supporting role.
1917, as I have written
before, is an acclaimed film
about British soldiers during
WWI. Here’
s an interesting
post-script: on Dec. 27, it was
announced that Sam Mendes,
54, who directed and co-wrote
1917, would receive a knight-
hood from Queen Elizabeth later
this year.
TV CATCH-UP
FBI: Most Wanted (CBS, 10 p.m.,
started Jan. 7) is a spin-off
of the CBS series, FBI, which
began in 2018. The five co-stars
include Roxy Sternberg, 30.
In 2016, she was profiled in
the London Jewish Chronicle
after being cast in Emerald
City, a short-lived NBC series.
Sternberg is the daughter of
a black and Jewish Ugandan
mother and an English Jewish
father. The Chronicle noted that
when in London, she teaches
Hebrew school classes at her
synagogue (she’
s fluent in
Hebrew).
JEWISH OLDEST MAN
On Dec. 20, Irving Piken cele-
brated his 111th birthday. He is
now the oldest living man in the
United States and, yes, he’
s still
quite mentally sharp. Census
records show he was born in
Brooklyn in 1908, the son of
Russian Jewish immigrants.
Brooklyn Law School just con-
gratulated him on his birthday,
noting he’
s their oldest living
grad (class of 1930). He has
been a lifelong Dodgers fan and
has been honored by the team
at Dodger Stadium. Piken, a
retired bank president, moved to
Southern California in 1977.
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