36 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021
CELEBRITY JEWS
ARTS&LIFE
PUNKY BREWSTER
REBOOT; RASHIDA JONES
A reboot of Punky
Brewster, the popular ’80s
sitcom, will begin streaming
on the Peacock Channel
Feb. 25. (All 10 episodes
will be released at once.) In
the original, Punky (Soleil
Moon Frye) was a warm and
funny 7-year-old who was
abandoned by her parents.
Luckily, she met a kind old
man who eventually became
her legal foster parent. In the
new version, Izzy, a young
girl, is suffering in the foster
system when she chances
to meet Punky Brewster
(Frye, again), now the harried
single mother of three. Izzy
reminds Punky of her young-
er self and she takes Izzy in.
Since the original ended,
Frye, now 43, has continued
to act, mostly in voice parts.
She also had four children
with her TV producer hus-
band, Jason Goldberg, 48.
Sadly, they separated last
year. Like their mom, their
kids have colorful names
(all have the last name
Goldberg). Here they are:
(daughter) Poet Sienna Rose,
15; (son) Jagger Joseph
Blue, 12; (son) Lyric Sonny
Roads, 7; and (son) Story, 4.
Actress Rashida Jones, 44,
was interviewed (Feb. 11) by
Terry Gross, 69, the host of
Fresh Air (NPR). She mostly
talked about costarring in the
2020 film On the Rocks and
about the birth of her first
child (2018) and the death
(2019) of her mother, actress
Peggy Lipton. (Rashida’s life
partner, and the father of her
son, is Ezra Koenig, 36, a
successful rock musician).
She also talked about
her African American father,
Quincy Jones, a legendary
musician and music produc-
er. Her father, she said, grew-
up poor, in a rough Chicago
neighborhood. But, she said,
he beat the odds and sur-
vived and thrived.
Later in the interview,
Rashida told Gross that
she went to the Latvian
village where her Jewish
great-grandparents came
from while a guest on the
ancestry TV show Who
Do You Think You Are?
Everybody (meaning the
Jews), she said, were killed
during the war. She then
said: “And I just think about
how ridiculous it is that I
exist because the lineage on
both sides, the probability
that I would exist, a Black
Jew in 2021, and succeed
and thrive is a miracle. And
it’s something I do not take
for granted. I think about
it constantly every day. I
don’t understand why I was
chosen, but I feel like I have
to make good on my dad’s
survival and my family’s sur-
vival.”
NATE BLOOM COLUMNIST
SCREENSHOT FROM TRAILER
Soleil Moon
Frye as Punky
Brewster
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