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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 28 March 2019
Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals last season story line of 'Veep'

By JOHN CARUCCI shooting that he realized
Associated Press everything was back to
NEW YORK (AP) — Julia normal.
Louis-Dreyfus still had tears "There was that magical
to shed as she said her offi- moment on our first day on
cial farewell to "Veep." The the set. She sort of took a
only problem is she forgot moment and said a couple
to bring tissues. of things to the cast and
Shooting wrapped for the crew and we kind of dug
series in December, but into the scene, and the first
those tearful goodbyes curse word kind of came
were not enough as she flying out of her mouth, and
and the cast of the HBO it was like, 'We're back!'"
comedy series walked the Madel said.
red carpet for the last time When the series premiered
Tuesday. in 2012, the political land-
"No. I suspect there will be scape was far tamer than it
more tears this evening. Oh, is today, and while the fun-
god. I hope not too many. niest moments centered
I didn't bring any Kleenex," around true accounts, the
Louis-Dreyfus said. storylines were usually not
The multiple Emmy Award- stranger than the reality.
winner, who plays politician Actors Matt Walsh and Tim-
Selina Meyer, shared what othy Simons joked about
fans can expect from her what an episode of "Veep"
character in the political would be like if something
comedy's seventh and last like special counsel Robert
season. Mueller's report was about
"Selina Meyer is going to try to be released.
to make a run for the presi- "Can I describe an episode,
dency, yet again. She's what that would be like?
been veep. She's been the Selina would try to burn it,"
president. She wants to be Walsh said. "She'd probably
the president again. But it's Actress and executive producer Julia Louis-Dreyfus attends the premiere of the final season of disappear and get a face-
extreme this season. We HBO's "Veep" at Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in New York. lift to create a distraction."
definitely push the edge of Associated Press Simons felt the writers and
the envelope, and it's go- actors would get a lot of
ing to get pretty raucous," son, Louis-Dreyfus an- "It was an absolute god- time," Louis-Dreyfus said. mileage out of the Mueller
Louis-Dreyfus said. nounced that she had send to come back to the Showrunner David Mandel report.
The final season of "Veep" breast cancer. After a suc- show, and to be able to fo- called Louis-Dreyfus a fight- "I feel that we would prob-
premieres Sunday night on cessful round of chemo- cus on making really funny er, so he had a strong feel- ably get a full episode of
HBO. therapy, she returned to stuff with my dear dearest ing she would return. But it just people sprinting across
After the show's sixth sea- the show. friends. It was all joy, all the wasn't until the first day of Washington to prevent its

Novelist explores the secular and religious divide

By ANN LEVIN barely scraping by. Complaint." dish inflections of a Borscht
Associated Press When a chance encounter "Honestly," he thinks, "what Belt comedian.
"kaddish.com" (Alfred A. with a troubled youth trig- does it hurt their dead fa- Both lifestyles, he suggests,
Knopf), by Nathan Eng- gers an epic attack of guilt ther . if Larry says a prayer leave something to be de-
lander: for his long-ago rebellion, or not. Does anyone really sired, both those who live
It's 1999, and Larry, a lapsed Shuli goes off on a quixotic think God sits up there with large parts of their lives on
Jew from Brooklyn, is at his mission to find the proxy he a scorecard, checking off the internet, and those who
sister Dina's house in Mem- once hired on kaddish.com every one of Larry's bless- are "back and forth to Israel
phis for their father's funeral. and reclaim the right to ings?" . as if one could take the
Since he won't commit to properly mourn his father. But, of course, Dina does. Lincoln Tunnel and find Je-
reciting the Jewish prayer Meshuggeh? Yes, and also Then there's Larry No. 2, or rusalem on the other side."
for the dead every day for the premise of Nathan Eng- Shuli, whose desire to atone While Larry/Shuli can be
11 months, as required by lander's latest novel, a mar- for his past is so extreme exasperating and Dina
Jewish law, she agrees to velous comic fable that jux- that he's willing to abandon doctrinaire, their father is
let him go online and pay a taposes the two Larrys and his family, move to Jerusa- a gem. Even on his death
proxy to do it. Think Jewish implicitly asks: Which one is lem, and sleep in a park to bed, this deeply devout
TaskRabbit. crazier? make things right with his man has compassion for his This cover image released by
Alfred A. Knopf shows "kad-
Fast forward 20 years and There's Larry No. 1, who deceased dad. wayward, searching son. dish.com," a novel by Nathan
Larry, now known as Shuli, smoked pot, practiced Zen Englander's expansive "This period in your life - it Englander.
has returned to the faith, meditation, and was ad- imagination is such that he feels like it's forever, but if Associated Press
with a vengeance. He's dicted to porn. The chap- can convincingly write the you're lucky, life is long and
married, with two children, ters narrated in that voice part of a secular Jewish each of these forevers will wise. But if they were, we
teaching at the yeshiva in are laugh-out-loud funny, hipster and a born-again one day seem fleeting." wouldn't have this delight
Brooklyn he attended, and reminiscent of "Portnoy's Jew - and do it with the Yid- If only his children were so of a novel.q