30 | MAY 7 • 2020
Arts&Life
celebrity jews
NEW BROADCAST AND
STREAMING CHOICES
A new Jerry Seinfeld stand-up
special, entitled 23 Hours to Kill,
started streaming May 5. The offi-
cial description says, “[Seinfeld]
takes the stage in New York and
tackles talking vs. texting, bad buf-
fets vs. so-called ‘
great’
restaurants
and the magic of Pop Tarts.”
Also on Netflix: Almost Happy
(first season started streaming on
May 1). It’
s an Argentine comedy/
drama about a radio show host
with two kids and an ex-wife whom
he still loves. Other plot details are
scarce, but the third lead character
is played by Santiago Korovsky,
35ish. He was the co-writer of the
2019 film Shalom Taiwan. It’
s about
an Argentine rabbi who travels the
Earth seeking donations to save his
synagogue.
Race to Victory is a Smithsonian
Channel special that features rare
color footage of the last months
of WWII in Europe. Scenes include
the liberation of the Dachau con-
centration camp (premiered on
May 4. Many encore showings/or
on-demand).
Also: the Smithsonian Channel
has a regular series called Spy
Wars. The episode premiering
on Sunday, May 10, at 8 p.m. is
called “Exodus.” It details how top
Mossad agent Dani Limor, now 72,
led the mission to rescue Ethiopian
Jews in the early ’
80s (“Operation
Moses”). He set up a diving resort
on the Red Sea and used that as
a cover for the smuggling of Jews
from Ethiopia to Sudan and on to
Israel. This operation was the sub-
ject of the Netflix dramatic film Red
Sea Diving Resort in 2019. Many
complained that the Netflix film
made many factual errors. This epi-
sode may set the record straight.
The Food Network is the home
of (I think) the first completely
new quarantine show. It’
s entitled
Amy Schumer Learns to Cook.
Schumer, 38, got married in 2018
to Chris Fischer, a top chef. Their
son was born in 2019. Schumer
and Fischer have a house in the
New England woods where they
have quarantined themselves
along with their nanny Jane (who
operates the TV camera), their son
and their dog. This eight-episode
series starts on May 11 at 10 p.m.
(the first two episodes are back-to-
back). Chris teaches Amy to cook
one meal at a time. We also see
Amy enjoy matzah with butter, her
favorite bed-time snack. Episodes
also feature video calls from “sur-
prise” celebrities.
On May 12, ABC is broadcasting
(8 p.m.) a tribute to the late
comedy writer and director Gary
Marshall. Everything about his
persona screamed “Jewish,” but
he wasn’
t Jewish. He did play a
Jewish hippie grandfather in the
2006 comedy Keeping Up With
the Steins. Marshall is best known
for creating Happy Days and its
spin-off series, and for directing
many hit movies, including Pretty
Woman and Beaches. Many celebs
appear paying tribute to Marshall.
The Jewish ones include Henry
Winkler, 74, Don Most, 66, and
Anson Williams, 70, from Happy
Days; David Lander, 72, from
Laverne & Shirley; and Barbara
Hershey, 72, a co-star of Beaches.
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