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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, everywhere. Global Citizen, which organized the concert, will urge philanthropists and corporations to donate enough funds to vaccinate 27 million health care workers worldwide. 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 punims.”

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 manager 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 managed or promoted many other greats, like Jimi Hendrix and The Who.

Brit actor Jacob FortuneLloyd, 33, has just been cast to play Epstein. Fortune-Lloyd, whose mother is Jewish, is best known now for playing Townes, a British chess-prodigy-turned-chess journalist, in The Queen’s Gambit, a megahit.

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 children, 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 illness, etc.

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd

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