DECEMBER 10 • 2020 | 35
BROADWAY MUSIC,
A JEWISH WOMAN
INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR
One Night Only: The Best
of Broadway is a special
NBC show, hosted by Tina
Fey, that airs Dec. 10 at
8 p.m. The special fea-
tures cast members from
seven Broadway musicals
dancing and singing on
Manhattan streets. The
special benefits Broadway
Cares, a charity that helps
people associated with the
theater. The featured musi-
cals written by “tribesmen”
include Chicago (John
Kander, 93, and the late
Fred Ebb); Jersey Boys
(Marshall Brickman, 81,
and Rick Ellice, 64), and
Rent (the late Jonathan
Larson). The performers
include Jake Gyllenhaal,
39 (who can really sing),
and Camryn Manheim, 59.
The original HBO Max
film Let Them All Talk
begins streaming Dec. 10.
Meryl Streep plays Alice,
a celebrated author who
takes an ocean cruise
with her old friends, Susan
(Candice Bergen) and
Roberta (Diane Wiest). The
three have some rough
history. The film was the
subject of a CBS Sunday
Morning feature on Nov.
29 (on CBS news app and
on YouYube). It includes a
trailer, cast interviews, and
some comments by direc-
tor Steven Soderbergh.
Let Them was written
by Deborah Eisenberg,
74, known as a best-sell-
ing writer of short
stories. Her awards
include a MacArthur
“Genius” Fellowship
and a Guggenheim
Fellowship.
Let Them is the first
film she’s written.
On Nov. 22,
President-Elect Joe
Biden announced
his national security
cabinet nominees.
The Jewish media
quickly and cor-
rectly identified Antony
Blinken, 58 (Secretary
of State) and Alejandro
Mayorkas, 61 (Secretary
of Homeland Security)
as Jewish. However, no
source identified Avril
Haines, 41 (the Director of
National Intelligence nom-
inee), as Jewish. Her late
mother, painter Adrienne
Rappaport, tragically died
when Avril was only 15.
Avril’s father is Thomas
Haines, 87, a very interest-
ing (non-Jewish) guy who
hung out with artists while
he became a top biochem-
ist. He wrote a memoir
in 2019. Thomas wrote
this about a trip to Israel
he took with Avril: “They
[Israeli young men] could
see she was American,
and once they found out
she was Jewish (Avril con-
sidered herself Jewish
because her mom was
Jewish), they wanted her
to move to Israel.”
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