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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