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CELEBRITY NEWS
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

Jacob 
Fortune-Lloyd

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