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28 May 2021 JEWISH INTEREST

Stars of David Interested in Your

By Nate Bloom, Contributing Columnist
Editor’s note: Persons in BOLD CAPS are deemed by Nate Bloom to be Jewish Family’s History?
for the purpose of the column. Persons identified as Jewish have at least one Jew-
ish parent and were not raised in a faith other than Judaism – and don’t identify
with a faith other than Judaism as an adult. Converts to Judaism, of course, are Nate Bloom (see column at left) has become a family history expert in 10
also identified as Jewish. years of doing his celebrity column, and he has expert friends who can help
when called on. Most family history experts charge $1,000 or more to do a
Catch-Up and Look Ahead Jew whose family originally was from full family-tree search. However, Bloom knows that most people want to start
The Wedding Coach, a six-episode Poland (her paternal grandfather died with a limited search of one family line.
Netflix romantic reality series, began in the Holocaust). Laurent’s mother, a
streaming on April 7. Here’s the official former ballerina, is of Tunisian Sephar- So here’s the deal:
publicity release: “Former bride and di descent.
forever comedian Jamie Lee shares her Laurent is best known for her Write Bloom at nteibloom@aol.com and enclose a phone number.
irreverent yet practical tips and tricks co-starring role in Inglorious Basterds Nate will then contact you about starting a limited search. If that
for wedding planning with struggling (2010). She played Shosanna Dreyfus, goes well, additional and more extensive searches are possible.
lovebirds.” a Parisian Jew who seeks revenge on
Lee, 38, has climbed the comedy the Nazis. Also, in 2010, she co-starred The first search fee is no more than $100. No upfront cost. Also,
ladder. She was a writer’s assistant in The Roundup and Beginners. The several of this newspaper’s readers have asked Bloom to locate
(2010) to JERRY SEINFELD as he Roundup is a French film about the friends and family members from their past, and that’s worked out
co-hosted the reality series Marriage complicity of the French police in the
Ref. In 2011, she finished second on Nazis’ roundup of Jews. In Beginners, great for them. So contact him about this as well.
the Last Comic Standing stand-up a very good American film, she played
show. After that, she did stand-up sets the French-Jewish girlfriend of an version of the “evil white guy,” Ridge- HANDLER, 46, who had a “2 tier”
nd
on just about every major talk show. American who finds out his elderly fa- way, in the original Amazon series The talk show, appears in the series. Also
She’s perhaps best known for being a ther is gay and that his late mother hid Underground Railway (about slavery). appearing is LORNE MICHAELS,
core cast member on the popular MTV her Jewish background. It premieres on May 14. Hechinger 76, the creator of Saturday Night Live
series Girl Code (2013-15). Oxygen, which only has three ac- also has a co-starring role in White Lo- and the producer of Late Night, now
Lee’s book, Weddiculous: An Un- tors, co-stars MATTHIEU AMALRIC, tus, a limited HBO series that will air hosted by Seth Meyers (who isn’t Jew-
filtered Guide to Being a Bride (2016), 55. His mother was Jewish. He ap- sometime this year. Hechinger’s grand- ish, but his wife is, and he was married
chronicled her wedding to comedi- peared in Munich and played the father, also named Fred Hechinger, fled by a rabbi).
an DAN BLACK, 38ish. In 2016, bad guy in the Bond flick Quantum Nazi Germany and became a top New On March 31, the Forward, the
Lee told the Jewish Journal that even of Solace. Oxygen was directed by York Times reporter and editor (the ac- famous Jewish newspaper, ran a back-
though her mother is Jewish, she never ALEXANDRE AJA, the son of an tor’s other grandparents were Jewish, ground piece on Joel Greenberg, who is
practiced any religion. Dan, she said, Algeria-born Jewish father and a too). now infamous in Florida. The bottom
wanted to incorporate Jewish tradi- non-Jewish mother. Aja, 42, is a top The Story of Late Night is a six- line: He isn’t Jewish, as most assume.
tions into their wedding and his wish- horror/thriller filmmaker (High Ten- part original CNN series (starts Sun- His father is Jewish, but he was raised
es prevailed: they signed a ketubah, sion, The Hills Have Eyes). day, May 2). It’s about the history of in his mother’s Christian faith and is,
were married by a rabbi and danced the The Woman in the Window is a usu- late-night talk shows. For whatever or was, a member of a local church.
hora. al pandemic story that was supposed reason, there has never been a Jew- Google this article title for more: “Dis-
Oxygen, an original Netflix film, to be in theaters long ago – that didn’t ish host of a “big ratings” late night graced tax collector Greenberg poses
begins streaming on Wednesday, May happen – and now being released on talk show. However, CHELSEA as Jewish.”
12. MELAINE LAURENT, 38, stars Netflix (Friday, May 14). Amy Adams
as a woman suffering from severe stars as an agoraphobic psychologist
memory loss as she wakes up inside of who makes friends with a neighbor.
a cryogenic chamber. Trapped inside Then her neighbor disappears and she Learn about our growing
and rapidly losing oxygen, the key to suspects foul play. The supporting Jewish community in this comprehensive
her survival is remembering who she cast includes JENNIFER JASON
is. The movie is billed as an Ameri- LEIGH, 58, WYATT RUSSELL, 34 population study of Sarasota-Manatee
can-French production. But, as you’ll (GOLDIE HAWN’s son), and “hot
read, it is largely a French-Jewish pro- newcomer” FRED HECHINGER,
duction. 20.
Laurent is a well-known and re- Hechinger had a biggish role in the
ally good French Jewish actress. Her 2020 Tom Hanks’ Western News of the
father, a voice actor, is an Ashkenazi World. He can be seen as the young

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