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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