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The cast from
The Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel
rial (politics and/or sex).
Obvi-ously, the very attrac-
tive Rachel Brosnahan
(Mrs. Maisel) can’t make
fun of her looks, and Mrs.
Maisel did “edgy” stuff the
very first time she took the
stage.
If I had to pick a realistic
“avatar” for Maisel, it would
be Elaine May, now 89.
Her “nice” looks and quick
comic mind made all her
male comedian colleagues
fall in love with her. She
never made fun of herself.
More to the point: with
her stand-up partner, Mike
Nichols, May wrote and
performed (1959-62) hip
material that was a clear
“content forerunner” of
edgy shows like Saturday
Night Live (SNL). Mrs.
Maisel’s “real forerunners”
are May and the women in
the original SNL cast (Jane
Curtin, Laraine Newman
and Gilda Radner). These
four women definitively
proved that women could
be funny and edgy. (Check
out May/Nichols videos on
YouTube.).
PANDEMIC THRILLER
AND MORE
Kimi, an original HBO
film, began streaming on
Feb. 10. Zoe Kravitz, 33,
stars as Angela, an agora-
phobic tech worker who
works at home during the
height of the COVID-19
pandemic. She discov-
ers evidence of a violent
crime while reviewing a
data stream, but her dis-
covery is ignored by her
company. She realizes she
may have to go outside to
contact people who will
take her seriously. (Next
month, look for Kravitz
as Catwoman in the new
Batman movie series
“re-boot”, entitled The
Batman.)
Lincoln’s Dilemma is a
four-part documentary that
will be released in its entire-
ty on Apple TV+ on Feb. 18.
It follows Lincoln’s complex
journey to end slavery and
his evolving views about the
status of African Americans.
The story is told by a panel
of distinguished historians,
educators and journalists.
Emmy-nominated actors
Bill Camp and Jeffrey
Wright provide the voices
of Frederick Douglass and
Lincoln, respectively.
The documentary
was directed by Barak
Goodman, 57. Over the last
20 years, he has directed
and/or produced 34 docu-
mentaries and has won two
Emmys. Many of his films
first aired on the PBS series
The American Experience.
His wife, Rachel Dretzin,
55, has also produced and/
or directed many docu-
mentaries, including 14 PBS
Frontline documentaries.
Her mother is Joanna
Merlin, 90, a busy character
actress. She is the last living
“credited” actor or actress
in The Ten Commandments
(1956).
Uncharted opened
in theaters on Feb. 11.
Tom Holland (the new-
est Spiderman) and Mark
Wahlberg co-star as part-
ners who fend off bad
guys as they go after a
long-sunken Spanish trea-
sure ship.
The film was direct-
ed by Ruben Fleischer,
47. He directed the two
Zombieland films. They
were critical and box-of-
fice smashes. His other
films got so/so reviews. I
have to note that I think
of deli meats when I hear
his name. Fleischer means
butcher in Yiddish and, you
know, a Rueben is a famous
deli sandwich.
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