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50 November 2 • 2017 jn c e l e b r i t y j e w s arts&life A JAW-DROPPING SHONDA On Oct. 19, the Huffington Post did a round-up of the actresses and female writers who have accused Harvey Weinstein, 65, of sexually harassing them. There were 42 women listed, accompanied by a photo and a summary of their allegations. By the time you read this, there will probably be more. The list includes American actresses Rosanna Arquette, now 58, and Gwyneth Paltrow, now 45; French actresses Eva Green, now 37, and Judith Godreche, now 45; and Canadian actress Mia Kirshner, now 42. Also on the list, Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley who discovered, as an adult, that her biological father is Jewish. AT THE MOVIES Opening Friday, Nov. 3, (with an aside): Thor: Ragnarok is a Marvel Studios film based on the Thor comic book character. In this one, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is in a race to save his whole civilization from his evil sister, the goddess Hela (Cate Blanchett). Jeff Goldblum, 65, has a big supporting part as the Grandmaster, an "Elder of the Universe" who enjoys manipulating others. The film's director, Taika Waititi, 42, gave Goldblum some license to improvise "to make the char- acter his own." Waititi, a New Zealander, is the son of a Maori (native Polynesian) father and a Jewish mother. Thor represents his move into big-money, big-time filmmaking. A 2004 short film he made attracted notice and this was followed by him helming three small-budget feature films that got great reviews. Almost as important to Hollywood: All three films earned five times what they cost to make. By coincidence, last week the London Jewish Chronicle profiled another South Pacific Jew, actor Cooper Andrews, 30ish. He plays Jerry, a big axe-wielding bodyguard on the hit TV series The Walking Dead. Raised in the States, he's the son of a Samoan father and an American Jewish mother. Wonderstuck is based on an acclaimed juvenile fiction novel of the same name by Brian Selznick, 51 (who also wrote The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which was adapted into a hit film). The film version of Wonderstuck, like the book, takes place in 1927 and 1977 and involves complex family relationships. It centers around a deaf 10-year-old boy. The cast includes Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore. The director is Todd Haynes, 56 (Carol, Certain Women). Haynes' mother is Jewish and he identifies as Jewish. EVA HESSE Netflix is now streaming the 2016 docu- mentary Eva Hesse. Eva Hesse, a painter and sculptor, is regarded as a founder of post-minimalist art. Her reputation, already strong at the time of her death from cancer, age 34, in 1970, has soared since her passing. Whatever you think of her art, the story told in the documentary is a mov- ing Jewish story, very well told. Hesse was born in Nazi Germany in 1936, and she and her parents and younger sister (who's interviewed) barely made it to the States. The trauma of that time, we learn, continued to affect Eva and her family as long as she lived. The documentary is enhanced by readings from the extensive diaries that Hesse kept. Actress Selma Blair, 45, a Southfield native, reads from the diaries as the voice of Hesse. (For a full feature about the film when it was released, see "A Moving Portrait" in the JN's Aug. 18, 2016, issue, or online at thejewishnews. com.) • NATE BLOOM COLUMNIST Paltrow Andrews Hesse, c. 1963 uptownshangri-la.com UPTOWN 6407 Orchard Lake Road (15 Mile & Orchard Lake) 248.626.8585 DAILY DIM SUM MIDTOWN 4710 Cass Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201 313.974.7669 DAILY DIM SUM & SUSHI CHINESE PEOPLE EAT HERE 01&/%":4t)0634 "--/&8-:3&.0%&-&% 0O.JMF3E&BTUPG/PSUIXFTUFSO)XZt $PNF$FMFCSBUF8JUI6T Thursday, November 2 through Wednesday, November 15! 3".4)03/0'4065)'*&-%4 5)"//*7&34"3: t%*/&*/03$"33:065 t#"--00/4'035)&,*%4 FREE COBBLER with your meal apple or cherry