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ARTS&LIFE
VAX LIVE’S CHANUKAH
MAN; BRIT BIO-PICS
VAX LIVE: The Concert to
Reunite the World airs at 8
p.m. on May 8 on ABC and
CBS, and streams on YouTube.
The program aims to inspire
vaccine confidence worldwide
and help get the COVID-19
vaccines to everyone, every-
where. Global Citizen, which
organized the concert, will
urge philanthropists and cor-
porations to donate enough
funds to vaccinate 27 million
health care workers world-
wide. The concert will feature
Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez
and the Foo Fighters.
Dave Grohl, the lead man of
the Foo Fighters, isn’t Jewish.
His wife, Jordyn Blum, is. Last
December, Grohl released
(to YouTube) eight videos of
in-studio performances of rock
songs by Jewish songwriters.
One video/song was released
each night of Chanukah. Grohl
explained in a tweet: “Greg
Kurstin [a top rock producer]
& I were kibitzing about how
we could make Chanukah
extra-special this [bad] year …
So hold on to your tuchuses …
we’ve got something special
coming for your shayna pun-
ims.”
The videos feature Grohl
on drums and Kurstin, 51, on
piano. Titled “Kurstin X Grohl:
The Hanukkah Sessions,” the
songs are by: The Beastie
Boys (Adam Horvitz, Mike
Diamond and the late Adam
Yauch), Drake, Mountain (the
late Leslie West and Corky
Laing), Peaches (Merrill
Nisker), Bob Dylan, Elastica
(Justine Frischmann), The
Knack (lead singer Doug
Fieger, an Oak Park native)
and The Velvet Underground
(the late Lou Reed). Check it
out.
In other rock news, Midas
Man, a bio-pic about almost
legendary rock group manag-
er Brian Epstein (1934-1967)
will begin filming later this
year. It’s no exaggeration
to say without Epstein, a
Liverpool native, the Beatles
probably wouldn’t have
become famous. He also man-
aged or promoted many other
greats, like Jimi Hendrix and
The Who.
Brit actor Jacob Fortune-
Lloyd, 33, has just been cast
to play Epstein. Fortune-Lloyd,
whose mother is Jewish, is
best known now for playing
Townes, a British chess-prod-
igy-turned-chess journalist, in
The Queen’s Gambit, a mega-
hit.
Sir Anthony Hopkins just
won his (second) best actor
Oscar for The Father. Next
January, he is scheduled
to start filming One Life in
London, a bio-pic about Sir
Nicholas Winton (1909-2015),
a British banker who arranged
the rescue of 669 Czech chil-
dren, mostly Jewish. Winton
brought them to England on
the eve of WWII. Production
of the film was delayed once,
already. I hope there are no
further delays. Sir Anthony is
83 and I’d hate for him not
to play Sir Nicholas due to ill-
ness, etc.
NATE BLOOM COLUMNIST
IMDB
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Fortune-Lloyd
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