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More information: wiesenthal.com/birthofisrael ONGOING HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SPEAKERS DAILY at 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00For over three decades, Holocaust survivors have volunteered their time at the Museum of Tolerance to share their stories. These survivors are the most effective ambassadors of memory, hope and tolerance. find us on:9786 W. Pico Boulevard L.A., CA 90035FREE UNDERGROUND PARKINGFOR MORE EVENTS & TICKET INFORMATION, GO TO: MUSEUMOFTOLERANCE.COMFilm screeningLOS COMANDOS 7:00PM SCREENINGWith violence overruning El Salvador, the emergency medical unit Los Comandos de Salvamento is standing up to the gangs’ reign of terror. Best documentary short winner, Austin Film Festival; best short at Los Angeles Cinefest winner, and CINE Golden Eagle award finalist for best documentary short.Q+A to follow with Director, Joshua Bennett and Academy Award® Winning Writer/Director of SWC’s Moriah Films Richard Trank13SEPTEMBERFilm screeningTHE SILENCE OF OTHERS 7:00PM SCREENINGThe Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Q&A to follow with Co-Director RobertBahar and Academy Award® Winning Writer/Director of SWC’s Moriah Films Richard Trank4OCTOBERSpecial evening with noted Author & Journalist Gil Troy7:00PM CONVERSATION & BOOKSIGNINGGil Troy discusses his newest book, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland – Then, Now, Tomorrow with Jewish Journal Publisher & Editor-in-Chief David Suissa.Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Jewish Journal and the Simon Wiesenthal Center7NOVEMBERFilm screeningWON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?* 7:00PM PREMIUM SCREENING Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular children’s TV show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”Q&A to follow with Director Morgan Neville and Academy Award® Winning Writer/Director of SWC’s Moriah Films Richard Trank*(for Associate Museum Members and above)8OCTOBERFilm screening93QUEEN 7:30PM SCREENING Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93Queen follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City. Q&A to follow with Director Paula Eiselt and MOT Director Liebe Geft10OCTOBERPanel discussionBeverly Hills Bar Association and the Museum of Tolerance CURB BAD BEHAVIOR: CURTAILING HARASSMENT FROM START TO FINISH6:00PM PANEL DISCUSSIONPanel moderated by:Jonathan HandelContributing Editor, Hollywood ReporterEve H. 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For all subscription services, visit JewishJournal.com or call (213) 368-1661, ext.129.on thE CovEr: Ben Kingsley stars in the movie ”Operation Finale.”Photo by Valeria Florini/Metro Goldwyn Mayer The Jewish Journal does not endorse the goods and services advertised in its pages, and it makes no representation as to the kashrut of the food products and services in such advertising.Published weekly by TRIBE Media Corp. David SuissaPublisher and Editor-in-ChiefFALL PREVIEW68 11 1416 2022The Jewish Faces of Fall TVGilda Radner’s Life Story in Her Own WordsMust-See Fall MoviesObsessive Love Turns Deadly in ‘You’Fall Theater and Performing Arts CalendarCapturing Eichmann in ‘Operation Finale’‘The Oslo Diaries’ Documents Secret Mideast Peace TalksARTs & ENTERTAINMENT AT ThE jEwIsh jouRNAl | AuGusT 201882214jewishjournal.com AUGUST 2018 n ArTS & enTerTAinmenT AT The jewiSh joUrnAl n Fall Preview n 5BRAD GARRETT: “SINGLE PARENTS”ABC Sept. 26In the ABC sitcom “Single Parents,” Brad Garrett plays a wealthy, widowed dermatolo-gist with 7-year-old twin daughters and a new set of friends. As the divorced father of two college-age kids in real life, a lot about it seems familiar to Garrett. “You’re thrown into a social group accord-ing to whom your kids hang out with. And you don’t necessarily have a lot in common with the adults at soccer or the birthday parties,” Garrett said, adding that the character he plays “reminds me of some fathers at the school when my kids were growing up.”His character, Douglas, also reminds him of himself. “As far as the sarcasm, there’s a lot of me in this guy. I get to be acerbic and edgy. He’s definitely a strong cup of coffee, this guy. I love playing someone that has a little bit of an edge.”When he read the pilot script, Garrett said, he “liked the fact that [Douglas] was the jerk of the group, because behind that jerk is a very afraid, lonely man. This is someone I haven’t played on TV before. I hope my parenting was better.”He’s cautiously optimistic that the new show will be as successful as “Everybody Loves Raymond,” which ran for nine seasons, with him costarring as Ray Romano’s brother. “It’s very early but the ensemble and the good writ-ing brought me here, and with a little luck we’ll have what we had on ‘Raymond.’” MICHAEL DOUGLAS, ALAN ARKIN, CHUCK LORRE: “THE KOMINSKY METHOD”Netflix Nov. 16Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin come to Netflix in a series from creator Chuck Lorre (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Mom,” “Young Sheldon”) about friendship and aging, with Douglas as a divorced, once-successful actor-turned-acting coach, Sandy Kominsky, and Arkin as his best friend and agent, Norman Newlander.“We talk a lot about prostates on this show,” Lorre (born Charles Levine) said. “It began with my desire to write about what I’m living, which is getting older, and entropy — the decay of the flesh. There’s the loss of loved ones and how it affects your relationships and friendships, and how you respond to a culture that feels like it’s moving away from you. It has to be funny; oth-erwise it’s heartbreaking.”That combination of comedy, tragedy and difficulties attracted Douglas to the role. “I try to pick projects that resonate with me or have some things that I can understand, and I cer-tainly understand Sandy Kominsky and some of the stuff that he’s going through,” he said. Judaism comes into play, as Norman is “a man who’s not necessarily comfortable with how he was raised and he’s charting his own spiritual journey as part of the series,” Lorre said. “That’s something Alan and I were both interested in.”Lisa Edelstein (“Girlfriend’s Guide to Di-vorce”) shocks shivah sitters when she makes an entrance in Episode Three as Norman’s al-coholic, pill-popping daughter.MAX GREENFIELD: “THE NEIGHBORHOOD”CBS Oct. 1After seven seasons on “New Girl,” Max Greenfield wasn’t looking to do another TV series so soon, but he found “The Neighbor-hood” too good to pass up. Called in to replace another actor in the comedy about a white family moving into a black neighborhood in Los Angeles, “I got to see everything that had been established in the pilot: The scripts, the world, the sets,” he said. “It was so well done that it became a no-brainer to do the show.”The fact that it was an ensemble and that he portrays a more grounded character than Schmidt on his previous series also appealed to him. “After seven seasons of insanity on ‘New Girl,’ I’m happy to let everyone else go nuts,” Greenfield said. “I have incredible teammates here, and I knew I didn’t have to carry the show.”The subject matter also resonated. “It’s about two families in a unique scenario from culturally different places and it gives us all the room in the world to explore,” Greenfield said. “It has provided a level of consciousness that I like to think I had before, but I’m certainly aware of it now. It’s the most diverse writers’ room I’ve ever seen, and I’m excited to see what they come up with.”“WE’LL MEET AGAIN”PBS Oct. 30“We’ll Meet Again,” produced and hosted by Ann Curry, returns to PBS with six new episodes about people seeking to reconnect with strang-ers or long-lost friends who impacted their lives. This season, one episode involves two Holocaust survivors, both of whom are named Benjamin. The first “is a survivor of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau and survived a death march,” Curry said. “He was dying. He just couldn’t hold on any longer. He collapsed and then he woke up in a hospital where he met an-other boy who also thought he’d lost everyone in his family, and they made a connection. Now, at 89, he wants to reconnect.”The Ben in the second story was a toddler during the war who survived several brushes with death before his family escaped to the United States. “He was among the only Jew-ish people who were brought into this coun-try during the war. The number was less than a thousand,” Curry said. “After their ar-rival, they were put in a camp with barbed wire around it in upstate New York and were kept there till the end of the war. [Ben-jamin] met a little girl there who made him realize he could be happy again, and now he’s seeking her.”The episode is scheduled to air sometime in November.by Gerri Miller6 n FALL PREVIEW n Arts & entertAinment At the jewish journAl n AuGust 2018 jewishjournal.comthE JEwish FaCEs OF Fall tVYour guide to the members of the Tribe behind the new and returning shows as stars, cre-ators and characters this season.Grant ShaudAnn CurryMax GreenfieldGRANT SHAUD: “MURPHY BROWN” CBS Sept. 27Twenty years since it ended its 10-season run, a rebooted “Murphy Brown” is returning to CBS with nearly its entire cast intact, including Grant Shaud as Miles Silverberg. Though he’s no longer the naïve young producer he initially played, the Jewish character is as neurotic as ever.“I thought, ‘How’s that going to play?’ Part of the original character was that he was so young and in over his head,” Shaud said. “But when we did the promos it came right out of me.” Shaud “didn’t even dream” that “Murphy Brown” would return “because you don’t sit around and dream about the impossible. I’m still pinching myself,” he said. The cast kept in touch over the years, but he hadn’t seen any of the returning writers in 20 years. “By the end of that first week we were so exhausted because it was so emotional,” he said. “It was like going to a high school reunion every day.”Fans of the original series should know that Miles’ marriage to Corky (Faith Ford) is being treated like it never happened, but the new fans the show hopes to attract won’t notice. “We’re introducing it to a whole new genera-tion,” Shaud said. “HOMECOMING” Amazon Prime Nov. 2Based on the podcast of the same name, “Homecoming” is a half-hour psychological thriller starring Julia Roberts as Heidi Berg-man, a caseworker who helps returning war veterans at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center. But not all is kosher, and se-crets come back to haunt her four years after she has left the facility. Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg adapted their podcast for and serve as show runners of the Amazon series.“The show is very concerned with these kinds of moral gray areas, especially in the late episodes,” Horowitz said. “[Bergman] has to dissect how she feels about what she has done, how guilty she should be and how she should make amends for it.”The cast also includes Bobby Cannavale, and Sissy Spacek as Bergman’s mother. “It was fun to dig back into [the podcast] and expand it” for television, Horowitz said. “It’s about twice as long as the podcast so we can go deeper into it. We made two seasons of the podcast. The show is kind of a mix of the two [seasons]. There will be a second season [of the TV show]. We have a lot of ideas. There are a lot of places it can go.”ALSO THIS FALLFrom “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner comes “The Romanoffs,” an anthol-ogy series featuring eight separate stories about people who think they’re descended from the Russian royal family. Launch-ing Oct. 12 on Amazon Prime, the cast includes Corey Stoll, Amanda Peet and Paul Reiser.Now without Roseanne Barr, her family comedy continues on ABC in “The Conners.” The cast includes Sarah Gilbert and Michael Fishman. (Oct. 16). The second season of Sarah Silverman’s “I Love You, America,” launches on Hulu Sept 6.James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal re-turn for season two of HBO’s “The Deuce” on Sept. 9. Gyllenhaal also plays the title role of a woman who becomes obsessed with a student in her class, a poetry prodigy, in “The Kindergarten Teacher.” Based on an Israeli film of the same name, it debuts on Netflix Oct. 12.Also of Israeli origin, “The Good Cop” from producer Andy Breckman (“Monk”) stars Josh Groban in the title of a by-the-book NYPD de-tective who lives with his father (Tony Danza), a corrupt former cop. It begins streaming Sept. 21 on Netflix. Jonah Hill and Emma Stone enter a pharma-ceutical trial that has dire complications in “Ma-niac,” a Netflix limited series premiering Sept. 21. Eric Dane sets sail for the last time in “The Last Ship,” which begins its final season on TNT Sept. 9.Rachel Bloom returns to the CW Oct. 12 in the fourth and final season of “Crazy Ex-Girl-friend.” The personal side of Israeli classical violin-ist Itzhak Perlman is showcased in the docu-mentary “Itzhak,” coming to PBS’ “American Masters” Sept. 14. On the same date, Israeli ac-tor Oded Fehr (“24: Legacy”) joins Sean Penn and Natascha McElhone in the Hulu series “The First,” about the launch of the first hu-man mission to Mars.Gail Simmons is back to judge the second season of Universal Kids’ “Top Chef Junior,” which includes a Jewish contestant from Los Angeles, beginning Sept. 8.Fred Savage returns to host “Child Sup-port,” premiering Oct. 5 on ABC.Jewish performers nominated for Emmy Awards, airing live on NBC Sept. 17, include Larry David, Henry Winkler, Carl Reiner, Mandy Patinkin, Judith Light, Liev Schreiber, Judd Apatow, Evan Rachel Wood and Michael Stuhlbarg. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” has 14 potential winners, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and actresses Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein among them.James Wolk (“Zoo”) is in the cast of the CBS All Access series “Tell Me a Story,” a psychological thriller premiering Oct. 31 that twists the children’s fairy tales “Little Red Riding Hood,” “The Three Little Pigs” and “Hansel and Gretel” into something dark and sinister.Ben Stiller executive produces and directs the Showtime limited series “Escape at Dannemora,” based on the infamous jailbreak and manhunt that riveted the nation in 2015. Premiering Nov. 18, it stars Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette and Paul Dano. ljewishjournal.com AUGUST 2018 n ArTS & enTerTAinmenT AT The jewiSh joUrnAl n Fall Preview n 7Alan Arkin (left) and Michael DouglasBrad GarrettLESLEY WOLMANTHE GREAT CANADIAN SONGBOOKNOVEMBER 14,15 &17 AT 8 PMNOVEMBER 18 AT 4 PMPICO PLAYHOUSE 10508 West Pico Boulevard, Los AngelesTickets $35 www.brownpapertickets.com (800) 838-3006In 1975, a petite Jewish comedian from suburban Detroit named Gilda Radner became famous overnight with the de-but of “Saturday Night Live.” As one of the original “Not Ready for Prime Time Players,” on “SNL,” Radner created iconic characters like Emily Litella, Roseanne Rose-annadanna, and Baba Wawa, and won an Emmy during her five-year run on the show. But hidden behind the laughter was the Gilda the public never knew: a woman who struggled with the pressures of fame, an eat-ing disorder, and later, ovarian cancer, which ultimately claimed her life in 1989 when she was 42. The documentary “Love, Gilda” explores both the public persona and the personal side of the beloved performer, telling her story through video clips, audio recordings, home movies, interviews with friends and colleagues, and writings from her journals, read by more recent “SNL” cast members including Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler and Bill Hader. First-time feature director Lisa D’Apolito, who spent 4 1/2 years making the film, told Gilda RadneR’s life stoRy in HeR own woRdsby Gerri Miller 8 n FALL PREVIEW n Arts & entertAinment At the jewish journAl n AuGust 2018 jewishjournal.comPhoto courtesy of Magnolia Pictuers2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90049skirball.org • (310) 440-4500FREE on-site parking; street parking strictly prohibitedSunday, September 30, 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.Bring in the fall harvest season and celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot at this daylong festival. 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Advance tickets recommended BUY NOW: (877) SCC-4TIX, skirball.org, or on siteA Sukkot CelebrationLIVE MUSIC | DANCING | FOOD SKIRBALLPhoto by Mercie Ghimirethe Journal, “It was a passion project.” She wasn’t a big Radner fan while growing up, “but I am now,” D’Apolito said. “Her legacy was so unique and important.”While D’Apolito was working in produc-tion at an advertising agency about eight years ago, a request came in to make some videos for Gilda’s Club, the cancer support organization that Radner’s widower, Gene Wilder, founded in 1995. “But about halfway through the process, Gilda’s brother gave me access to her personal materials that had been in storage since she passed away, in-cluding audiotapes that she recorded for her book, ‘It’s Always Something.’ Once I heard them, I wanted to incorporate as much as I could, and tell the story from her point of view,” she said.Unfortunately, some of the audiotapes were damaged, so D’Apolito had others rere-cord Radner’s words. She had about a dozen journals and other writings to work with, and excerpts appear on screen in Radner’s hand-writing. “It was important to me to use the journals exactly how they were written,” she said. “But we had to retouch and clean up a lot of them.”One journal, from the summer of 1978, was particularly revelatory. “Gilda had checked herself into a hospital for an eating disorder,” D’Apolito said. “Only two friends knew. It was surprising to me that at the height of her fame, she was going through so much. She was struggling inside and not tell-ing anybody what was going on.”As noted in the film, Radner’s issues with food go back to her childhood, when she was given diet pills as an overweight 10-year-old. She grew up in an affluent Jewish commu-nity, attending a private school and spend-ing winters in Miami Beach with her family, which was her first comedic inspiration. “Her father, brother and cousins were funny. There’s a real respect for humor in the way she grew up,” D’Apolitio said. “She wasn’t raised religious in any way, but she called herself a Jew from Detroit. She was very proud of her background.”It was important to D’Apolito to convey what it was like for a woman in comedy in the 1970s and specifically on “SNL,” where there were no female writers at the time. “But Gilda never felt suppressed, and she never doubted herself as a performer,” she said. “She felt equal to [the men].” Although Radner had tragedy in her life, including her father’s death from a brain tu-mor when she was 14, plus a miscarriage and her battle with ovarian cancer, “she could always find the humor,” D’Apolito said. “No matter what was going on, she never hit rock bottom, never let anything get her down.”D’Apolito believes it was Radner’s perky personality that endeared the performer to the public. “She loved an audience. She loved people. She was very accessible and approachable. She exuded some sort of joy, something that made you connect to her.” In April, comedian Tina Fey introduced the film at its premiere on opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival, with many other “SNL” alumni and comic luminaries in at-tendance. “Audiences are happy to have Gilda back,” D’Apolito said, based on her ob-servations at Tribeca and other screenings. “They’re remembering her and how much they loved her.” D’APolito added, “I’m hoping that a younger generation can discover Gilda. She had a really important role in comedy, and I hope the film brings that to light for people who didn’t know her and her work.”Asked how Radner might react to the film, D’Apolito wasn’t sure. “But her friends and family love it,” she said. “I hear Gilda’s voice in my head [saying], ‘Why did you use that bad picture of me?’ But I think [the film] has a good balance. I think she’d want an open, honest picture of her life and I think that’s what I have. I hope that she would like it.”New York-based D’Apolito, who was an actress before she got into production and di-recting commercials and short films, may not be finished with Radner just yet. “Gilda left be-hind a lot of material, some short stories and a really good screenplay — a comedy about a woman looking for love who’s torn between two men,” she said. “I don’t want her stuff to go back into storage. I’m talking to people to figure out what we can possibly do.” l“Love, Gilda” opens in theaters on Sept. 21. jewishjournal.com AUGUST 2018 n ArTS & enTerTAinmenT AT The jewiSh joUrnAl n FALL PREVIEW n 9“I’m hoping that a younger generation can discover Gilda. She had a really important role in comedy, and I hope the film brings that to light for people who didn’t know her and her work.” —Lisa D’Apolitocourtesy of Magnolia PictuersNext >