44 | NOVEMBER 19 • 2020

LOREN’S BACK; NEWS OF
THE CHALAMETS; AND
JEWISH COVID ADVISERS
Now streaming on Netflix
is The Life Ahead. Sophia
Loren, 86, plays Madame
Rosa, a Jewish Holocaust
survivor who became a pros-
titute after being liberated.
In her old age, she provides
daycare for children of active
prostitutes. The film focuses
on her relationship with a
black, Muslim 12-year-old
boy. The film is based on
The Life Before Us, a 1976
book by Romain Gary that
won France’s highest literary
award. Reviews are very
good for Loren’s first film
in 10 years. Loren and her
son Edoardo Ponti, the film’s
director, discussed the film

and her career on the Nov.
8 episode of CBS Sunday
Morning (it’s online).
Timothee Chalamet,
24, was set to play Bob
Dylan, 79, in a bio-pic
covering the time (1965-
66) when Dylan stopped
being an acoustic folk-
singer and began playing
with electric instruments.
However, COVID-19 has
forced a postponement. In
other Dylan news, Bob dis-
closed that he changed his
last name from “Zimmerman”
to “Dylan” because he
feared that antisemitism
would affect his career.
In other Chalamet news:
Timothee’s sister, Pauline
Chalamet, 28, landed her
biggest role. She’ll co-star
as one of four college room-
mates in the upcoming HBO
series The Sex Lives of
College Girls.
President-Elect Joe Biden

announced the 13 members
of his COVID-19 Transition
Advisory Board on Nov. 10.
David Kessler, 69, is one
of three co-chairs. Kessler
got a law degree from the
Univeristy of Chicago in
1977 and a medical degree
from Harvard in 1979. He
intended to be a hospital
head. He trained as a pedia-
trician and, by 1984, he was
a hospital head, while, at the
same time, teaching medical
classes at the Albert Einstein
School of Medicine and law

at Columbia University.
He was appointed FDA
commissioner in 1991
by George H.W. Bush.
He pushed for quicker
approval of new drugs
(especially for AIDS),
truth-in-labeling, standard-
ized nutrition labeling and
regulation of tobacco.
These policies made him
popular with Democrats,
and Bill Clinton kept him on
at FDA. He left in 1997.
Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel,
63, an oncologist and bio-eth-
icist, also serves on the
COVID Board. He is chair of
the department of medical
ethics and health policy at the
Univeristy of Pennsylvania.
He is most famous as a spe-
cial adviser to the Obama
administration on the creation
of “Obamacare.” His brother
Rahm Emanuel, 60, was
former mayor of Chicago and
Obama’s first chief-of-staff.

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Sophia Loren

with Ibrahima

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