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BROADWAY MUSIC, A JEWISH WOMAN INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR One Night Only: The Best of Broadway is a special NBC show, hosted by Tina Fey, that airs Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. The special features cast members from seven Broadway musicals dancing and singing on Manhattan streets. The special benefits Broadway Cares, a charity that helps people associated with the theater. The featured musicals written by “tribesmen” include Chicago (John Kander, 93, and the late Fred Ebb); Jersey Boys (Marshall Brickman, 81, and Rick Ellice, 64), and
Rent (the late Jonathan Larson). The performers include Jake Gyllenhaal, 39 (who can really sing), and Camryn Manheim, 59. The original HBO Max film Let Them All Talk begins streaming Dec. 10. Meryl Streep plays Alice, a celebrated author who takes an ocean cruise with her old friends, Susan (Candice Bergen) and Roberta (Diane Wiest). The three have some rough history. The film was the subject of a CBS Sunday Morning feature on Nov. 29 (on CBS news app and on YouYube). It includes a trailer, cast interviews, and some comments by director Steven Soderbergh. Let Them was written by Deborah Eisenberg, 74, known as a best-selling writer of short stories. Her awards
include a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Let Them is the first film she’s written. On Nov. 22, President-Elect Joe Biden announced his national security cabinet nominees. The Jewish media quickly and correctly identified Antony Blinken, 58 (Secretary of State) and Alejandro Mayorkas, 61 (Secretary of Homeland Security) as Jewish. However, no source identified Avril Haines, 41 (the Director of National Intelligence nominee), as Jewish. Her late mother, painter Adrienne Rappaport, tragically died when Avril was only 15. Avril’s father is Thomas Haines, 87, a very interestVIRGINIA SHERWOOD/NBC
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ing (non-Jewish) guy who hung out with artists while he became a top biochemist. He wrote a memoir in 2019. Thomas wrote this about a trip to Israel he took with Avril: “They [Israeli young men] could see she was American, and once they found out she was Jewish (Avril considered herself Jewish because her mom was Jewish), they wanted her to move to Israel.”
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