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Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
One of the best films of 2011 is still "The Adjustment Bureau," George Nolfi's sci-fi romantic thriller that has at its core a boggling theological question: How much are our lives predetermined by a higher power, and how much comes about as a result of free will? The movie, which is still in theaters, comes out on Blu-ray and DVD combo pack from Universal Studios Home Entertainment on June 21.
Based on Philip K. Dick's 1954 short story, "The Adjustment Team," the film revolves around David Norris (Matt Damon) a politician bent on pursuing the woman of his dreams (Emily Blunt), though angel-like figures in fedoras strive to keep them apart. These members of the Adjustment Bureau can even stop time to thwart the lovers, lest their affair foil the cosmic plan designed by The Chairman, an entity who could either represent God or Big Brother.
I decided to track down the film's writer-director, George Nolfi, after reading Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin's thought-provoking review in the Journal, titled "Finally, an Action Thriller for Religious Thinkers:" "Judaism, Christianity and Islam all believe in an all-powerful and all-knowing God who controls everything that happens in the world," Korobkin writes. "What, then, is the role of our own decisions? Does man truly possess free will, or does he only have the "appearance" of free will? …The best line of the movie for me was when the Damon character is finally confronted by one of the higher up angels, who tells him that he must conform to his predestined fate. Damon looks at him and says, "What about free will?" The angel's response (I'm paraphrasing from memory) is classic: "We tried giving humans free will and look what we ended up with: wars, pogroms, the Holocaust. That's why we've been forced to take it away. You think you have free will? You only have the illusion of free will."
Nolfi – a former academic whose screenwriting credits include "Ocean's Twelve" and "The Bourne Ultimatum"—told me the Adjustment Bureau and its Chairman could represent God and His angels – or not. And he declined to outline his own religious beliefs, except to say that his father was raised Catholic while his mother was an Episcopalian.
"My own beliefs don't matter in terms of the movie," Nolfi said by phone from his Los Angeles home. "What matters is the question of how much we're determined and how much we're free, which – no matter how you look at the world – is a pressing one. If you look at the movie through a theological lens, that's fine; it's just that you don't have to."
Here are some further excerpts from our conversation:
NPM: You have quite an academic pedigree for a filmmaker – studies in philosophy and political science at Princeton and on a Marshall Scholarship at Oxford; and a master's degree from UCLA. It all makes sense when you consider the themes of "The Adjustment Bureau" —but how did you first become interested in these issues?
GN: After my parents split up when I was a [child], I lived with my mother, who was pretty interested in religion and was also a fairly regular churchgoer. I became interested in philosophy as a way of looking at the world. But for most of human existence, philosophy and theology have been merged, so on those two fronts I became fascinated with this issue of how much do we get to choose our own path through our actions and choices, and how much do outside forces set us on a path or constrain us. You can view those larger forces as societal, like the culture you were born into, the language you speak, your religion, your parents—or as biological, such as how healthy you are and what kind of biochemistry you have. And/or you can view things through the lens of some larger plan that a universal God has for you. Whatever the lens you choose, I'm fascinated by this question of how much do you get to rise above or challenge the circumstances that have set you on a certain course.
NPM: You certainly did that yourself when you decided to leave academia for Hollywood.
GN: While near the end of my college experience, I started watching movies really for the first time in my life, and was really impressed by the ability of the best films to leave you thinking about its issues long afterwards. I realized that… if I pursued academia, the very issues I was most interested in would have to be studied in a very narrow way and talked about amongst a very small group of people. But I was more interested in a conversation with the public at large, which is what appealed to me about films. I got an agent, who basically said it's almost impossible to break into Hollywood from 7,000 miles away. So I left Oxford, [transferred] to UCLA, and started writing scripts.
NPM: How did you come to read the Philip K. Dick story?
GN: I was not an avid science fiction reader, but my producing partner was, and he pitched me the premise: the notion of fate not as an abstract issue but as a group of individuals – fate personified as a bureau of agents. I thought that was a great original premise for a film – I hadn't seen it done before, and it would allow me to get into those areas I find most fascinating.
NPM: What are some of the differences between the story and the movie?
FN: The concept of a higher power is in the story, but with a much more cynical attitude toward it, which is what one might expect from Philip K. Dick and his concerns. [Dick – whose work inspired the 1982 film, "Blade Runner"—drew on his personal experiences with drug abuse, paranoia and schizophrenia to explore social and metaphysical issues in stories that often featured authoritarian regimes and corporations.] I optioned the short story in 2003; one day, my business partner suggested that we could transform the narrative into a love story, where it's a guy fighting fate for the woman he loves. We were talking on the phone and I said, "I want to do that; I think I can tell that story." I was intrigued by the potential to cross genres; in this way, the film wouldn't just be a dark, dystopic science fiction movie—it would stand outside of the genre but use elements of it.
NPM: Have you come to any conclusions of your own about free will versus predestination?
GN: I think it's both: We are both completely constrained and we're also completely free, which is paradoxical, but that's what makes it interesting.
NPM: In the movie, it is also both. Not just because David Norris chooses to fight his own predestined fate. A high-ranking "angel" tells him that The Chairman backed off and allowed humans to run things during certain periods in history; but The Chairman took back control when those periods resulted in catastrophes such as World War I, the Depression and the Holocaust. Was that scene in Dick's story?
GN: No, that was a complete invention. The story is tonally very different from the film; the concerns are much more: "Is this reality or is this a sort of mental construct? Is this really happening to the main character, or is he going crazy?" Also, it seems to me that Dick believed that no matter how much time you spent philosophizing or trying to use religion to grapple with these issues, it wasn't going to get you anywhere.
NPM: You've pointed out that the free will debate is a recurring theme in Judaism, Christianity and Islam—as is the question of suffering and pain.
GN: Again, I'm not saying that people must put a theological lens on the movie, but if you do, then immediately you run up against the problem of evil—certainly in any monotheistic religion I'm familiar with. You very quickly get to, "If God is benevolent, all-powerful and all-knowing, why do we feel thwarted all the time, and why do all these bad things happen?" The movie gives a potential answer to that which is, we wouldn't be able to understand, appreciate or use our free will if we didn't also encounter obstacles to it.
NPM: I can't imagine that studios were dying to make a movie that tackled such heavy theological questions. Did anyone challenge you on this?
GN: Shockingly, no. People were incredibly supportive—partly because there was the script I had written, so they could see how it played through.
NPM: Matt Damon championed you getting signed on as the director – giving you the chance to make your directorial debut with a major studio film.
GN: I showed the script to Matt right after I did "Ocean's Twelve" with him. He was going off to do "The Bourne Ultimatum," which I had been called in to [rewrite]. I went to England and worked on the script as they were shooting it for a long time, so he was very familiar with my work.
NPM: You've done panel discussions with clergy after screenings of the film – what did you find most interesting about those conversations?
GN: The most profoundly interesting thing was learning that Judaism and Islam have strong strands of thinking both in terms of a deterministic view of God, and a free will view. I had known more about that in the Christian tradition, so it was interesting to hear the historical arguments within other religions as well.
NPM: One theological argument opines that angels have no free will, because they were created by God only to be good. But members of the Adjustment Bureau are more complex.
GN: Call them angels or call them agents— if they embodied just pure good, they wouldn't be very interesting as characters, and furthermore you wouldn't be able to set up a conflict between them and the [protagonists]. The trick was to make David's agenda one that viewers could buy into and see as good—and to make the Bureau's agenda contrary to that, but then come around to seeing that their agenda was "good" as well. That was an incredibly complicated screenwriting problem for me.
NPM: The first "person" you thank in the credits is The Chairman. You're obviously very good at what you do, but the Chairman has been with you – or at least, the studio's chairman.
GN: That was definitely one of the tongue-in-cheek aspects of thanking The Chairman.
"The Adjustment Bureau" is currently playing at theaters such as the Culver Plaza Theatre and the Pacific Sherman Oaks 5. Check listings for more details.
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April 18, 2011 | 1:44 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Ghostface is back with "Scre4m," and with it Courtney Cox and David Arquette, who met on the set of the first "Scream," in 1996, married three years later, had a daughter but after 11 years of marriage are now in the midst of a trial separation. In interviews with Oprah and Howard Stern, the two have explained their marital woes; and Arquette has been candid about his struggles in the aftermath of the split, which have included a car accident, substance abuse, and a fling with a cocktail waitress that gossip rags described as cheating, even though it took place after the separation. The actor has also discussed his stint in rehab, his more than 100 days of sobriety, his continuing therapy and his desire to reconcile with his wife.
Arquette's strong feelings about family and fidelity were apparent when I spoke to him last year about his role in the play "The Female of the Species," at the Geffen Playhouse; during the conversation, he twisted off his gold wedding ring to reveal the inscription he shares with Cox: "A deal's a deal. 6-12-1999." The ornate script recalls the couple's marriage in a multifaith ceremony in which Arquette broke a glass to honor his late Jewish mother, Mardi (nee Brenda Nowak), the daughter of a refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland. (The actor's late father, Lewis Arquette, was not Jewish).
The Journal story from 2010 was titled "David Arquette: The Females in My Life;" appropriately, the actor arrived at the theater with his 6-year-old daughter, Coco, whom he conceived with Cox after grueling fertility treatments. He proceeded to show Coco around the stage, and the French glass doors on the set where he would make his flamboyant entrance on opening night. "Coco, this is my first line," he demonstrated, as she happily ran around back stage.
Arquette came across as funny and sweet — he even hugged me — but also vulnerable and self-effacing as he spoke about the females in his life. Here are some excerpts from our February 2010 interview:
NPM: Tell me about the inscription on your wedding ring.
DA: Yes, it does say, "A deal's a deal," inscribed on the inside. I love that I get to wear it in this play; for most roles I usually have to take my wedding ring off, and it's always a bummer.
NPM: Do you see any similarities between Coco and yourself as a child?
DA: I can see in my daughter that she's a little bit of a joker; she has fun, she's a little silly…Maybe I was a lot more sensitive as a kid. I fought through a lot of insecurities, and I still do (laughs). I get social anxiety at parties, just any kind of bigwig Hollywood function (sighs); it just drives me crazy.
NPM: You did marry someone who is prominent in Hollywood.
DA: But Courtney is great; she is awesome, and she actually is so real and confident. I mean, she's got her insecurities, too, but she's very much at a place where she doesn't really care about [celebrity]; she takes people for how they are and what they're doing—their actions speak for themselves—and she'll call anybody on being full of it.
NPM: Including you?
DA: Oh, all the time. She totally balances me.
NPM: In an interview with Barbara Walters, [Cox] said that she had felt a bit insecure, early in your relationship, about all the beautiful women you were known to have had on your arm before you met.
DA: I guess I would be nervous around girls sometimes, but I'd find a way to sort of charm them, or try to charm, and I could see if somebody was sort of interested. That always seems odd to me now; it just seems so foreign, like another person back then.
NPM: How do you handle being married to someone who is much more successful than you are as an actor?
DA: That really does bug me. It's not jealousy as much as I just have a drive to be successful; it's ingrained in men to be, like, the breadwinner, and the type of success you get on a show like 'Friends' [Cox's NBC hit] is a very rare opportunity. But I'm getting less and less concerned with it and more and more accepting."
NPM: How do you remember your own parents' marriage?
DA: It was difficult; we were struggling a lot with money. [Arquette was born on a Virginia religious commune his parents co-founded that embraced aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, but later moved to Los Angeles.] And my parents had a very tumultuous relationship. They loved each other deeply but they also were very different and they separated when I was around 18, but never got a divorce. And then on my dad's deathbed [while Arquette was shooting the action comedy, "Eight Legged Freaks"] he said, "Your mother was always the love of my life." That was so sad. It's one of my big philosophies in life that, for men, if you're going to be married and have kids, you have to make it work. Obviously if you're in a bad relationship, it's one thing, but some of the time, it's you, and there's a lot of work to be done on both sides. And I think men often have like a 'grass is greener' outlook on life and can easily be tempted into running off or just not wanting to be held down. But it's really important to work through things, to understand each other and try to be the best person you can be.
NPM: How do you regard your family life?
DA: I'm unavailable to other people. My heart is closed, reserved for Courtney, my family and Coco, on a relationship level.
David, you are a sweetheart. Good luck with your continuing sobriety and self-reflection—and may you create the family life that you most desire.
April 12, 2011 | 5:30 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
I just got a call from a spokesperson for Justin Bieber, who said the teenaged superstar appreciated my defending him in my previous post, "Justin Bieber Israel Drama: Give Bieber a Break." But, the spokesperson added, the facts reported by some of the Israeli press (which I quoted) were incorrect, and Bieber would like to set the record straight.
Some outlets had reported that Bieber had had a meeting scheduled with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the night before his April 14 performance at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park; that Bibi had taken advantage of the PR opportunity by inviting children who had been affected by the Gaza rocket fire to said meeting; that Bieber had subsequently declined to meet the children; and that Netyanyahu then canceled the meeting.
"There was never a meeting with [Netanyahu] actually scheduled," the spokesperson, who asked to be referred to as "a member of Justin Bieber's camp," said. "We were talking about it but it never was scheduled." The reason the meeting didn't happen, he added, is because information kept leaking as to the logistics—and because the paparazzi situation had been so "brutal." And since the meeting was never scheduled, "it was never canceled and it certainly didn't have anything to do with the kids," the spokesperson said. In fact, Bieber had already reached out to those children, and had invited them to be his guests at his concert on April 14.
Here's a statement from Bieber's people:
"Despite some logistical challenges, Justin is enjoying his first trip to Israel. Justin welcomes the chance to meet with kids facing difficult circumstances, regardless of their background, and in fact, he had already invited children from the Sderot area to be his guest at the concert in Tel Aviv on Thursday night."
Here's hoping that Bieber, a devout Christian who had been looking forward to "walking in Jesus' footsteps," can enjoy the rest of his first visit to the Holy Land.
April 12, 2011 | 3:08 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Headlines are buzzing that Justin Bieber declined to meet a group of children affected by Gaza rocket fire during his highly-publicized trip to Israel. And that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in response, canceled his scheduled meeting with the teenaged superstar, which was to take place the day before Bieber's show at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park on April 14.
To which I say: Give Bieber a break. Bibi Netanyahu took advantage of the public relations opportunity offered by his meeting with the global superstar to invite the children to attend, according to haaretz.com. Bieber apparently canceled after learning of this curveball. The singer is just 17, and he's been burned before—thrust into political hot water when a Rolling Stone reporter—very inappropriately, I might add—asked the then-16-year-old to comment on abortion and other political issues.
Bieber has hinted about his feelings in several recent tweets: " i want to see this country and all the places ive dreamed of and whether its the paps [paparazzi] or being pulled into politics its been frustrating," one tweet read.
[Related: Rise of the Jewish Justin Biebers]
Other tweets stated: "i'm in the holy land and i am grateful for that. I just want to have the same personal experience that others have here" and "You would think paparazzi would have some respect in holy places. All I wanted was the chance to walk where jesus did here in isreal."
While other artists have declined to perform in Israel for political and/or security reasons, Bieber and his mother, Pattie Mallette, a born-again Christian, were excited about visiting the Holy Land, Bieber's manager, Scott "Scooter" Braun" told me in February, when I spoke to him about the documentary "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. "Justin told me he wanted to rearrange his touring schedule because he wants to do seder in Israel," Braun—who has become Bieber's Jewish "father figure" —said in a phone interview.
When I asked if Bieber was going to visit sites such as Yad Vashem, Braun said, "He wants to see it all. And it's not just him; I want to take the entire crew, put them on tour buses and let them see the country. And can I be clear on something? It isn't just about going to Israel. If the right situation presented itself and we got invited to go to Egypt [note: Braun said this before the democracy-related unrest] or Jordan or any of these places, we'd go as well, because at the end of the day, music isn't something that's supposed to be held to one group or another."
Bieber's Tel Aviv concert is expected to draw some 60,000 viewers; let's hope the experience proves a positive one for the young singer, who seems like a real mensch. He even recites the "Shema" with Braun before every one of his shows, in part, to make the Jewish members of his crew feel at home.
Bieber and his crew had been gathering in "prayer circles" before each performance, led by Mallette: "I felt like if we were going to say a prayer 'in Jesus' name, amen,' that Dan Kanter [the show's music director] and I, who are Jewish, should be represented as well," Braun said. "We'd do the same if we had someone Muslim or Hindu in the group – we're all-inclusive. So Dan and I would say the 'Shema,' and after the third show, as we were about to say it, Justin chimed in. I asked him, 'What the heck was that?' and he goes, 'I memorized it.' He was like, 'This is something Jesus would have said, right?' and I said, 'yes,' and he's like, 'Then I want to say it with you guys.' I explained that it's one of our holiest prayers, and that it means the Lord is one and he thought that was cool. He knows it's in ancient Hebrew; he knows that Jesus would have said it and since Dan and I are every close to him, he wanted us to feel included as well. He's a very special kid."
April 8, 2011 | 6:39 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Paul Reiser eyes his agent warily in an upcoming episode of "The Paul Reiser Show," the writer-actor-comedian's new half-hour comedy on NBC, which closely resembles his real life. In the scene, it's been some years since Reiser's megahit "Mad About You" went off the air, and the agent is gushing that he's found the actor a great movie role. "Is he a Jew?" Reiser asks, suspiciously. "The nice guy, sweet husband, Jew?... vaguely Semitic – the implied 'ethnicity?'"
Reiser, of course, is poking fun at himself, and at anyone who might typecast him as the kind of menschy husband he played on "Mad About You." In that '90s sitcom, he and Helen Hunt starred as newlyweds in a show that was also based on Reiser's own experience.
The absurdities of life after superstardom figure prominently in his new series, as does Reiser's psychotherapist wife (Amy Landecker of "A Serious Man"), his two sons and a circle of buddies thrust upon him either because they are married to his wife's friends or are fathers of his children's playmates.
Like Jerry Seinfeld most famously did, but also Matt LeBlanc in "Episodes" and Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Reiser is the latest celebrity to create a comedy-as-self-portrait. David even appears in the pilot on April 14 to suggest that Reiser should be doing his own version of "Curb."
At 54, Reiser – whose role in the ensemble cast of "Diner" (1982) kickstarted his career, is almost as well known for his autobiographical best-sellers, the latest of which, "Familyhood," will hit stores in May.
He said any resemblance between "The Paul Reiser Show" and "Curb," in particular, is incidental. "The impetus for this series was a very nice guy at Warner Brothers saying 'We think it's time for you to come back,'" he recalled. "And I very humbly said, 'That's so nice, but I don't really want to. It's hard – and why?' But the guy continued to be very persuasive and flattering, and I am a sucker for that. So while I didn't know if there was a groundswell of demand for me out there, I decided to go write and see what happened. And because I don't know how to make things up, I kind of wrote my own life again."
Reiser describes the premise early in the show: "I have everything I have ever dreamed of. The only problem is, I'm not dead yet."
"If I were 97, my life would have timed-out perfectly," he explained in a telephone interview. "But, hopefully, I have many more years left, so the question is, what do I do next?'"
While Larry David's comedy hinges on his antisocial behavior wreaking absurd consequences, Reiser's stems from good intentions that go horribly wrong. "'Bad' is funny," Reiser said. In one sequence, his character is videotaped selling gift-wrap for a school fundraiser, which later appears on a website titled, celebrityhumiliation.com, in a segment that describes him as a broke and forced to sell goods out of his car for cash.
"There's [another] joke where I say I'm just famous enough where if I were caught in a motel room with a coyote, it would be on TV," Reiser said. "I can't tell you how many times I've called a restaurant and thought, 'Maybe they'll know my name and we'll get a good table' – but, nope, the guy never heard of me. But if I got caught picking my hose at a red light, I'm just famous enough that there would be a shot of me on YouTube: 'Former Golden Boy picking his nose.' That's the crazy reality of my life."
Another unusual aspect of Reiser's status emerges in that sequence about the supposedly "great" movie role: "I have such a peculiar relationship with my agents," he said. "I love my agent, and he's tickled he's in the show, by proxy, but I said, 'Did you notice the guy's an idiot?' I marvel at the whole agency; they've never found me a job, ever, since 'Mad About You's' been off the air. I know that at this point in my life, I'm not going to be George Clooney, or Leonardo, but I can't be that universally loathed… Yet to be fair, I have given them mixed messages: 'Get me work, but I don't want to to work too hard;' 'I don't want to play my own familiar self, but I don't want to stretch so much that I look terrible.'"
Reiser knows that observers are wondering why NBC delayed premiering his show; his wry response is that the old regime was in fourth place for a reason, and suggests that the recently appointed new one is smarter. "If you deliver the Jews, I'll get everyone else," he tells a reporter of his show. "I'll go after the Methodists and the Catholics; I just need you to get me every Jew with a TV set in their house."
The fictional Reisers are Jewish because the real ones are, too. Reiser grew up in the 1960s in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, a heavily Jewish and Irish-American housing development on the Lower East Side, where the sound of hippies playing drums would waft in through the windows of his classes at the East Side Hebrew Institute.
He began performing at comedy clubs while majoring in music at the State University of New York at Binghamton, and went on to star in TV shows such as "My Two Dads" before "Mad About You" made him a household name during the sitcom's seven seasons, from 1992 to 1999.
Like Seinfeld's TV character, the fictional Paul Buchman on "Mad About You" seemed Jewish but was never explicitly named as a member of the Tribe. That irked some Jewish pundits – along with the assumption that Reiser and Hunt portrayed an interfaith couple. "My goal with 'Mad About You' was to have the Jewishness be presumed, but never stated," Reiser acknowledged. "But I still bristle to this day when people make a big deal of 'He's Jewish; she's Gentile.' We never mentioned that her character is not Jewish…. Helen, in fact, is part Jewish, and to me her character was always Jewish. Any girl who is smart and funny and can quote a Mel Brooks record is as Jewish as I need them to be."
As for Reiser's own religious life, he said, "We're pretty Jewish; we have our seders, and we have our big Chanukah parties with the kids." His oldest son, Ezra Samuel, who was born six weeks premature and has used a wheelchair since birth, had his bar mitzvah two years ago in a ceremony so moving that guests told Reiser they were inspired to themselves pursue becoming b'nai mitzvah.
In "Familyhood," Reiser said, "There is a specific chapter about my eldest son, which was a landmark for me to do. I hadn't really written about him before, but I was glad once I got to the other side of it."
Reiser even hired an actor who uses a wheelchair to play one of his sons on his new show. "But we're not going to make a big deal of it and we're not going to see either kid too much," he said.
The boy's disability does come up, in a more serious manner, in the episode in which Reiser and his wife re-write their wills. "We do make a joke about [that], which was an important joke for me to be able to make, and then we move past it," Reiser said.
"Not that we're being flip, but for these characters, this is simply a part of life. Kids have issues, and you deal with those issues every day."
March 30, 2011 | 6:43 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
Judge Judy said she needs "a day to chill" in the hospital after being whisked to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center—in an ambulence—following symptoms of stomach distress today, TMZ reported. "I'm really fine," the 68-year-old Judith Sheindlin, a.k.a. TV's sometimes irascible Judge Judy, told TMZ's Harvey Levin. "I wanted to go back to work this afternoon. I'm exhausted. I'm tired. A lot of things just zoned together, including the bad news of the world. At my age, I know my body. My body is fine."
Sheindlin, host of the syndicated courtroom reality show "Judge Judy," has hardly been benched by her experience: she should return home on Thursday.
Described by Forbes as one of the 20 richest women in entertainment (actually she was number 13 in 2007), the tough-talking judge got her start in 1976 when then-Mayor Ed Koch appointed her to New York's criminal court and in 1980, as Manhattan's supervising family court judge.
Judge Judy has Jewish credentials, too. Born Judith Susan Blum to German Jews in Brooklyn, she was raised in a traditional household but has described herself as more of a cultural Jew, she told the Jewish World Review some years ago: "Indeed, under Judge Judy's robe still beats the heart of a Jewish mother," the story said. "When she was [once] profiled on Entertainment Tonight, she managed to slip in several times that her 'handsome son' was unmarried and looking."
While the Jewish judge has no plans to sit on her local Beit Din, it's reported that her current show should continue at least until 2013, its 17th season.
Stay well, Judge Judy!
March 29, 2011 | 5:39 pm
Posted by Naomi Pfefferman
While watching Todd Haynes' stunning adaptation of "Mildred Pierce" in a nourish mini-series for HBO, I recalled the first time I viewed a production by this brilliant (and yes, Jewish) writer-director: Edward Albee's, "The Zoo Story," which Haynes directed and starred in at a professional theater in Hollywood in the 1970s.
Haynes was all of 13, and a classmate at Gaspar de Portola Junior High School (now middle school) in Tarzana. In the seventh grade, we'd eat lunch every day among the same circle of friends who met under a tree near the cafeteria, where Todd would often show us the intricate pen drawings he had made to illustrate various creative ideas. Even then he was talking about issues of identity – and his own emerging gay identity— that would later surface in his nuanced cinematic explorations of race, gender, and sexuality.
"Far From Heaven" (2003) is Haynes' homage to the 1950s melodramas of Douglas Sirk, who fled Hitler to Hollywood and transformed "women's pictures" into slyly subversive critiques of American social taboos. "I'm Not There" (2007) divided Bob Dylan's life into six personae, each represented by a different actor; while "Mildred Pierce" tackles social class and gender anxiety in a faithful adaptation of James M. Cain's gritty 1941 novel (compared to the weepier 1945 movie starring Joan Crawford).
What I didn't know about Todd back in junior high was that he counted Judaism as an important aspect of his personal identity; I had always assumed he was non-Jewish, and was surprised to learn—decades later—that he is, in fact, a member of the tribe. When I interviewed him about "Far From Heaven" in 2003, he explained that his mother is Jewish, his father is not, and while he grew up in a non-religious household, he is "damned proud" to be an MOT. Laughing, he added that he wished his surname didn't sound so WASPy.
When asked about his relationship with "Far From Heaven's" composer, Elmer Bernstein (who won his final Oscar for "Heaven's" score), Haynes said: "Elmer and I became friends very fast, which I think has a lot to do with being Jewish, left-leaning and interested in the arts."
Bernstein (1922-2004) reminded Haynes of his charismatic grandfather, Arnold Semler, who died in 2001, and to whom "Far From Heaven" is dedicated. Semler was a son of Romanian and Polish immigrants who started out in the Warner Bros. mail room in the 1930s and worked his way up to head of set construction and union organizer. A Communist Party member, he quit his job during the McCarthy-era blacklists and founded a communications and electronics business.
Over his brown bag lunch back at Portola, Haynes spoke often and with great admiration about his grandfather, but it was not until our 2003 interview that I realized the scope of Semler's influence. "My grandfather identified with the history of Jewish struggle," Haynes said. "All my films are about resilient outsiders, whether in terms of race or sexual orientation, and I think I inherited that from [him]."
"Mildred Pierce" is Haynes latest saga of a resilient outsider: as played by Kate Winslet, the character pulls herself up by the proverbial bootstraps from working class to upper class, has an affair with an aristocratic Lothario (Guy Pearce) but remains reviled by her spoiled, pretentious daughter, Veda (Evan Rachel Wood), to tragic effect.
Mare Winningham, by the way, is superb as Mildred's blunt waitress co-worker, Ida, who winds up running Pierce's business empire.
Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the "Mildred Pierce" mini-series will continue airing this week; parts 4 and 5 will air on April 3 and April 10.
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Palestinian author Rula Jebreal bears an uncanny resemblance to Freida Pinto, the Indian actress who portrays the writer's alter ego in Julian Schnabel's new film, "Miral." So it was not surprising that the filmmaker initially assumed Jebreal was Indian when they met in 2007 at the opening of an exhibition of Schnabel's paintings in Rome.
"I said, 'No, I am actually from Israel,'" Jebreal, 38, said in a telephone interview from Manhattan, where she now lives with Schnabel. "I don't know if I would say he had a knee-jerk reaction, but his expression changed from smiling to almost a tension, like he had never seen a Palestinian before. So I asked, "Are you scared or something?'" And he replied, 'Should I be scared?'—that is how we started talking."
It was only by chance that Jebreal, a prominent television journalist living in Rome, had attended the opening at all. Her friend, Walter Veltroni, Rome's mayor, mentioned to her over lunch that she should check out the exhibition – and that Schnabel was the only adult besides Hugh Hefner known for wearing pajamas in public.
"When I saw his paintings that night, they spoke to me," she recalled. Some captured images and impressions of Egypt, which gave her the sense that Schnabel regarded her culture with dignity and compassion. "I felt there is a place in his work that speaks to everyone, and relates to the major issues I care about," she added.
Soon after the opening, she sent the artist-filmmaker a copy of her autobiographical novel, "Miral," which recounts her painful childhood and her coming of age during the first Intifada in 1987. Also attached was a rough English translation of a screenplay adaptation of the book, which was originally published in Italian in 2004.
"Three weeks later, Julian called and said he would like to work on this project together," Jebreal said.
Some time between that telephone call and the completion of the film, the Jewish artist and the Palestinian author fell in love and began living together in Schnabel's duplex within Palazzo Chupi, a pink complex he built in Greenwich Village.
When did Jebreal learn that Schnabel was Jewish?
"I don't pay attention to these things," she said. "I am Muslim, my daughter is Catholic, and I never classify people based on color, gender or religion. Honestly I did not care. I met the human being, I met his work; nothing else mattered."
Jebreal's own story is heartbreaking. Everything in "Miral," the novel and the film, is true, she said, not only about herself, but also about her family. Her mother, Nadia, was repeatedly raped by her stepfather as a child, ran away from home as a teenager, supported herself as a belly dancer and served time in jail for slapping an Israeli woman who had affronted her.
Eventually, she married Othman Jebreal, a gentle, almost saintly man who worked as a gardener and later, as a minor imam at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. He vowed to save her, but Nadia was unable to overcome her brutal childhood and descended into alcoholism and depression, eventually committing suicide by drowning herself in the Mediterranean, leaving behind her daughters, Rula, 5, and Rania, 4.
Because Othman Jebreal was already suffering from cancer, he took his girls to live at Hind Husseini's Children's Home in the Old City of Jerusalem, hoping that there they could receive an education and find safe haven when he was gone.
"Hind was very strong, dedicated and affectionate to her 'daughters,' who numbered about 3,000," Jebreal said. "She believed education could give us the opportunity to survive, because she saw what was happening in many villages where girls had no option except to marry at 13 or 14, to become prostitutes or to be manipulated and used by religious fanatics, which she did not want for her girls."
Even so, the early years were difficult for Jebreal, who felt "alone, abandoned, fearful" and who devoured books about orphans such as "Oliver Twist," "David Copperfield," and especially "Jane Eyre." She learned to tell stories, at first, to heal her sister, who repeatedly attempted to scale the orphanage's walls to run home; and then to the other orphans who crowded together in bed at night, seeking the physical affection they missed from their parents. Those experiences, in part, led Jebreal to become a writer.
Another turning point came when Jebreal was sent by Husseini to teach in a makeshift school in a refugee camp on the West Bank when she was 16. "I was shocked by the kind of oppression that seemed unbearable," she recalled of the camp. There, Jebreal met and fell in love with an older man, an activist with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; against the wishes of Hind and of her father, who by then was terminally ill, she also began participating in civil disobedience and numerous demonstrations during the first Intifada.
Late one night, Jebreal was arrested and whipped in an Israeli prison, but was released after 24 hours because she is an Israeli citizen. The only matter that is fictionalized in the film, she said, involves her boyfriend at the time; he did not engage in car bombings in the settlements or in any other violent activities, as far as she knows. In fact, when the Oslo Accords went forward in the early 1990s, he publicly endorsed the peace process, to the chagrin of fellow PFLP leaders.
Eventually Jebreal received a scholarship to the University of Bologna and relocated to Italy, where she had an affair with an art student and gave birth to a daughter Miral, named for a wildflower that blooms in extreme conditions. Her break in broadcasting came when the second Intifada erupted in 2000; since then, Jebreal has become one of Italy's best-known journalists. She also became an author, writing "Miral," she said, as a catharsis of sorts, "but in the third person because I needed to process it emotionally." Schnabel, she said, has brought a more relaxed quality to her life, since she finds that "art in general focuses on the positive things."
Yet she has been dismayed by Jewish groups who protested the screening of "Miral" at the United Nations recently. "The one right that I should have is to be able to tell my story," she said. "[But] I'm not sure people are ready for a Palestinian woman to tell her story. You can judge the film as good or bad; you can dislike it, but to come out against the showing of the film is something I find shocking."
The film opens on March 25.
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BETHMGE ST R3 2ETHPAGE LIB 47 POWELL AV BETH W O E MY I 1714 t OLD BETHP/GE also serving I S L A N D T R E ES PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD VOL. 8 NO. 29 Thursday, June 6,1974 Landmark Bill Passed For Citizen's Rights GOVERNOR WILSON SIGNING the Marino-Taylor Freedom of information Law. (From left to right) State Senator Ralph J. Marino (R-Syosset), Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea (R-Montauk), Assemblyman Donald L. Taylor (R-Watertown), Senate Majority Leader Warren M. Anderson (R-Bingha niton). Last week Governor Wilson signed the Marino Freedom of Information law. The law which has been widely hailed as the "sunshine bill" opens most governmental records to public scrutiny. Following the Governor's approval of the bill, Senator Marino" said, "This legislation provides the single most important advance in curbing secrecy in state and local government in this era. The people of the State of New York will now have access, directly and through representatives of the media, to-the information on local and state government which they have always been entitled." Marino also noted that the bill includes prohibitions against the disclosure of mlormation that would violate the rights of privacy enjoyed by all Americans. In signing the bill, Governor Wilson pointed out that the bill affirms the principle that "a free society can be maintained only when government is open and accessible to its citizens." Wilson said: "The more open a government is with its citizenry, the greater the understanding and participation of the public in government." The new law which becomes effective on September l, 1974,' requires all state and local governmental agencies to make their records available to the public for inspection. Included among records which must be made available for inspection are: -final opinions -statements of policy and interpretation -minutes of meetings of governing bodies internal and external audits -votes of boards and councils -administrative staff manuals -arrest records and police blotters All agencies of government are required to prepare an index of information which is available pursuant to the terms of the new law. 10 cents per copy Boards and Trustees Await Voter's Action Bethpage, Island Trees, Plainedge - Elections June 12 Three districts will be voting on Wednesday, June 12. They are: BETHPAGE-12 Noon to 10 P.M. in Bethpage Senior High School. A budget of $12,841,018 has been drawn up for the School District and will be presented for the voter's approval. The budget entails a tax rate of $13,629 per $100 assessed ^valuation, which is an increase of $.97 over last year's rate. Three seats on the School Board are being vied for in this election. The three-year term now held by Richard Borman, who is not seeking reelection, is being sought by Edward Marczewski, Michael Verderosa, Kestutis Miklas, and Henry Pozio. The three-year seat formerly held by now-deceased Herman Slavin is being sought by Jeffrey Shuckman, Joseph Parisi, and Elizabeth Marinuzzi Gackowski. The three-year seat now held by Elizabeth Regan, who is not seeking reelection, is being sought by Lee Hilton (who had been appointed by the Board of Education to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Slavin's unfortunate death) and Jeffrey Shuckman. Voters will also be presented with a Library Budget of $284,771 ($278,771 of which will be raised by real property taxes). This will entail a tax rate of $0,499 per $100 assessed valuation, an increase of $0.04 over last year's rate. Two Library Board seats will also be filled at this election. Incumbent Margaret Lang is seeking reelection to her five-year position unopposed. Mrs. Clair Jackman is seeking election to the unexpired term of Muriel Taylor, who moved from the District. Mrs. Jackman is currently filling the position by appointment. ISLAND TREES-12 Noon to 9:00 P.M. in Island Trees Senior High School. After developing a budget which would have called for a total tax rate increase of $1.59 per $100 of assessed valuation, the School Board decided to offer the Budget in the form of six sub-propositions because of the size of the needed iri-c r e a s e . These propositions are as follows: Proposition 1-A Basic Education Budget, is in the amount of $10,270,345 and calls for a tax rate increase of $0.48 per $100 assessed valuation. Voters will have the opportunity to add to this budget any or all of five additional sub-propositions: P r o p o s i t i o n 1B-Operation and Main-tenance-$ 83,700-a tax rate increase of $0.26. Proposition lG- Tran-sportation-$ H7,000-a tax rate ..increase of $0.36. Proposition ID - Equipment and Library Books - $100,040 - a tax rate in- X crease of $0.31. / Proposition IE <ZZT^ Cafeteria - $12,185 - a tax rate increase of $0.04. P r o p o s i t i o n 1F-Interscholastic Athletics- $45, 200-a tax rate increase of $0.14. Two School Board positions will also be filled at this voting. Incumbent Richard Ahrens is running for a three-year position,—-^, and Mrs. Catherine M. Collins is opposing him. The other three-year Board seat, vacated by i n c u m b e n t Board President Louis Dimitri, is being sought by Mr. Frank A. Martin and Gilbert E. Grenier. PLAINEDGE-12 Noon to 10 PM. in 5 locations by voting districts. A school budget of (Continued on Page 9) Plainview-Old Bethpage Revote Set The Plainview-Old Bethpage School Board is submitting a revised budget to the community for their approval on June 20 from 12 Noon to 10 P.M. The previous budget had been defeated at a vote on May 8. The new budget entails a tax-rate of $17,632 per $100 of assessed valuation, which is a $0.21 decrease from the $17,693 tax-rate which met defeat. The $0.21 decrease was arrived at primarily through increased anticipated receipts in two areas. The first is the voter-approved sale of a parcel of land adjacent to the Old-Bethpage elementary school. The Board anticipates receiving approximately $90,000 from this sale. The second area is the expected receipt of approximately $70,000 interest on new investments. The proposed budget totals $24,943,171, which is an increase over the defeated $24,832,071 budget of $111,100. This increase is almost completely the result of an expected $100,000 interest on a tax-anticipation note. Registration for those district residents who have not voted since 1971 is June 13. Registration and voting will take place in three elementary schools: the Jamaica Ave., Joyce Rd., and Old- Bethpage schools. All four newly-elected Board members Michael Miller, Louis Natter, Ben Taubenfeld, and Eileen Porta (who is the first woman to hold a Board position in this District) enthusiastically support the new budget. The budget was arrived at through (Continued on Page 11)
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On June 30, more than 2,000 people enjoyed perfect summer weather at a family day celebrating MAG's new Centennial Sculpture Park. Among the highlights were storytelling by Almeta Whitis, music by Trinidad and Tobago Steel Band, a performance by Futurpointe Dance, and special activities hosted by event partners Lollypop Farm and Writers & Books. Pictured at right: Airigami created this balloon sculpture inspired by MAG's painting Young Priestess.
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On April 23, members of the Gallery's Georgia O'Keeffe and Claude Monet Societies gathered at Albert Paley's Rochester studio for a reception and sneak preview of the artist's latest project. Paley on Park Ave is an outdoor exhibition of 13 new works that opens June 29 at various locations along Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan. It will remain on view through November 9, 2013.
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Above left: Paley and director Grant Holcomb address the gathering, with a sketch of Soliloquy as backdrop. Above right: Guests at the event, which was held in the artist's massive workspace.
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Top row: At Hispanic/Latino Heritage Family Day, students from English Village Elementary School presented the Mexican folktale Cuckoo, Chile Lindo gave a dance presentation, and performers explored the music of this year's "spotlight country" in Cuba in Black & White. Photos by Brandon K. Vick.
Middle row, left and left center: At Native American Family Day, Daystar Dance Company presented Allegory of the Cranes and Ganondagan's Spirit Dancers led an interactive workshop. Photos by Peck Babcock.
Middle row, right center and right: At Kwanzaa Family Day, Dr. David Anderson led the opening ceremony and storyteller Almeta Whitis gave a presentation. Photos by Peck Babcock.
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Y&R Week of December 8, 2008
While Nick was showering at the suite in the GCAC, Phyllis noticed on his
cell phone that Sharon had tried to call him so Phyl deleted the calls. When
Nick emerged his dad called and asked to see him right away. On his way out,
Nick angrily confronted Jack, who was eating alone in the GCAC dining room,
about Victor's so-called journal. "I never saw that thing until Adam showed
it to me," Jack lied. Nick stalked away and Jack lit into Phyllis for
showing Sharon his credit card statement. Jack declared that Phyllis must be
thrilled that Sharon kicked him out but Phyl noted, "If Sharon is out of
your marriage, believe me, she's on her way to mine." Phyllis denied sending
Sharon the statement but Jack didn't believe her.
Lily blasted Billy for betraying Cane and Jill at the stockholders' meeting.
"It's Abbott family business," Billy explained. "I don't expect you to get
it." A perturbed Cane showed up and Lily dismissed Billy. He ran into Chloe
who dumped on him for messing things up with Lily. Chloe then spied Cane
hugging Lily who was upset about Tyra and Ana. After Cane left, Chloe sniped
at Lily for hanging on Cane "every chance you get."
Billy tried to smooth things over with Cane, to no avail. Cane reamed him
for back-stabbing their mother but Billy countered, "Mom gave you a job that
you didn't deserve at a company that you didn't know a thing about two years
ago. However, all I've done is take back what's rightfully mine. Now if you
want to go pursue other interests, please, be my guest. I understand. And I
will write you one stellar recommendation." Cane warned that Billy ruined
his romantic chances with Lily.
Ashley was surprised to hear that Sharon threw Jack out of the house. Ash
was even more surprised when Sharon revealed that Jack confessed to using an
escort service. After, Ashley confronted Jack and told him she didn't
believe he's a sex addict. When he asked why would he lie, Ashley shot back
with, "Why would you forge a diary that could ruin Victor's life?" Ash then
warned her brother that Victor will be coming after him.
At the jail, Victor informed Nick that Frank confessed to forging the
journal for Adam and Jack. Vic said he would handle everything on the inside
and needed Nick to run Newman Enterprises. Nick pointed out that he was
happy to babysit the company until his dad got out but Victor said Newman
was also his son's birthright.
Brad visited Sharon to offer more consolation and she continued to beat
herself up for trusting Jack. Phyllis called Brad and suggested that she
send him and Sharon on a business trip to New York to which he agreed.
Later, Sharon encountered Nick and told him that her marriage is over. "Just
know that I'm here for you," Nick assured his ex. He met up with Phyllis and
lamented how Sharon has two husbands that cheated on her. Phyllis suggested
that Nick send Sharon to a photo shoot in New York for Restless Style to
keep her busy and he thought it was a good idea.
Chloe was painting the nursery at home when Lily showed up and apologized
for their previous encounter. Chloe suggested that Lily find her own man and
a ticked-off Lily yelled back, "You seduced my fiancé when he was drunk!"
The ladies argued some more and an emotional Chloe fell off the ladder and
hit the floor. Cane rushed into the room as Chloe groaned in pain.
Katherine brought Pearl home with her to Murphy's place. Kay then realized
that her ring was gone and accused Pearl of stealing from her. Pearl
explained that she went to see how much the ring was worth at the pawn shop
— and it turned out to be a lot. Kay continued to feel dazed about her life
and couldn't understand how she ended up becoming a waitress. She considered
pawning the ring and taking off, but Murphy pleaded with "Marge" to stay
Michael and Lauren celebrated their third anniversary.... Gloria and Jeffrey
were annoyed that Jack had played them in the Jabot takeover, but looked
forward to being executives. They both confessed to having bought extra
Jabot stock on their own.... Michael informed River that Howard was out of
town and couldn't be contacted. River hoped that Gloria would take the stand
for him instead, but Michael didn't believe that she would help him out.
Michael sadly told his father that he didn't think anyone from the bank
rally would be there for River. River urged Michael to stop stressing out.
After falling from a ladder, a pregnant Chloe was rushed to the hospital.
Cane joined her and tried to keep her calm, but she was worried about the
baby. Soon, Lily and Billy joined them, but Cane was less than thrilled to
see his brother. Outside in the hallway, Lily blamed herself for Chloe's
condition. Billy noted that Chloe was the one who'd decided to climb up on a
ladder while pregnant. Lily noted that Chloe didn't love Cane and got
pregnant as soon as she could. This caught Billy's attention. Meanwhile,
Cane and Chloe were informed that nothing was wrong with the baby, but Chloe
had a pelvic fracture. Cane promised to take care of her while she healed.
Lauren asked Jeff if she could speak with her mother-in-law alone, then
pleaded with Gloria to be there for River. Glo argued that she had to
protect her image now that she was an executive at Jabot, but Lauren
concluded that Jeffrey didn't want Gloria to help River. Gloria denied this.
Lauren repeated that River needs her and warned Glo that if she doesn't help
River, Michael won't allow her back in the house. After, Gloria prepared to
leave, but Jeff arrived and warned her not to go.... At the courthouse,
Michael informed the judge that he wasn't sure when his witness would
return. The opposing counsel was annoyed with him for requesting the delay;
the judge agreed that they were going to proceed with the case. Michael
suggested to River that they pray for a miracle.
At the hospital, Cane informed Lily that the baby is a girl. He also told
her that they can't keep having "accidental" encounters because he needs to
be there for Chloe and the baby. Later, the nurse asked Chloe how far along
she is, and Chloe replied 23 weeks. After, Billy again asked Chloe if he's
the father of her baby, but she insisted that Cane is. Alone, Chole spoke to
her baby bump and noted that she thinks the baby will have a great life with
Cane, but she doesn't love him the way she loves the child's father. Later,
Cane sat with Chloe in the hospital room. Lily joined them and apologized to
Chloe; she then assured Chloe that she'd keep her distance from Cane. Cane
also promised that Chloe and the baby would be his first priority. She was
pleased when Cane referred to the three of them as a family.... Billy
quizzed the nurse about when the baby had been conceived; she replied that
Chloe had probably become pregnant in June.
Nick invited Sharon to be part of a tie-in between Beauty of Nature and
Restless Style. Sharon liked the idea and accepted. After, Phyllis presented
Nick with an advance copy of Restless Style. Nick was impressed by the
cover, which featured a well-known sight in Paris. He thought it was a
Photoshop job, but Phyllis revealed that she'd actually been in Paris for
the shoot. Nick was surprised to learn that they'd been in France at the
same time. Phyllis finally confessed that she saw Nick and Sharon kissing in
Paris. Nick apologized. Phyllis tearfully recalled how shocked and
devastated she'd been when she spied the buss. Nick insisted that he still
loves Phyllis. Nick tried to explain that it was just something that
happened "in the moment." Phyllis wanted to know why all he and Sharon did
was kiss, and concluded that Sharon was the one who stopped it from going
further. Nick's silence confirmed this. "What does this mean?" Phyllis
asked. "What do you want?" Nick replied that Sharon realized it was a
terrible mistake and respects their marriage. "That's so sweet of her. I
should send her flowers," sniffed Phyllis. Nick stated that the kiss didn't
mean anything. Phyllis didn't buy it. Nick again apologized and said that he
and Phyllis have their love to fall back on. "We have secrets and lies,"
Phyllis sighed.
Jack met up with Sharon at the Abbott manse and asked if they could work
things out. Sharon replied that she wanted them to both tell Noah that
they're no longer together. Later, they sat Noah down and sadly shared their
bad news. Noah stormed out of the room.
Daniel brought Amber to the office space that was once Sabrina's gallery and
told Amber that it was now the studio where she'd design her clothes. Amber
was thrilled. After, they told Nick and Phyllis that they were quitting
their jobs at Restless Style... Kevin and Jana debated whether to use the
money of Kay's that Kevin had found to fix the plumbing at Crimson Lights.
Kevin argued that the Chancellors already had a lot of money.... Amber still
suspected that Kevin was connected to Kay's death, but Daniel thought she
was mistaken.
At Murphy's, Katherine still had trouble believing that her name is Marge
and she's an alcoholic. She and Murphy bonded as he told her about his late
wife. She was surprised when he revealed that he'd never told "Marge" any of
this before. He replied that "Marge" seemed different now so he felt like he
could talk to her.
Jeffrey told Gloria that if she's really devoted to him, she won't go to
court and help River. Glo tearfully explained that she didn't want to let
Michael down. Jeff held up the jar of tainted face cream and reminded her
that he could use it against her.... At River's trial, Michael's case wasn't
going well since none of his witnesses had appeared to speak on River's
behalf. Just then, Gloria arrived. Lauren, Michael and Eden were thrilled to
see her. Gloria then took the stand and stated that River went to the bank
to stop the bombing. The opposing counsel didn't believe her; she went on to
explain that she'd turned her back on River because she didn't want to get
arrested and leave Michael without parents. Later, the judge released River
into Michael's custody.... At home, Jeff took a long swig of alcohol. "I
warned you Gloria," he said out loud. "We're both about to get burned." He
then spread some of the tainted moisturizer on his face.
The Baldwins celebrated River's release from jail. However, Michael reminded
River that the case would still have to go to trial.
At home, Cane took care of Chloe, who was still recovering from her fall.
Meanwhile, Billy admitted to Jack that he once had a relationship with Chloe
— and that he's the father of her baby. Jack was shocked. Billy panicked
over the idea of being a father. Jack advised him to think hard about making
a decision because it wouldn't be fair to Cane or the baby if Billy decided
to reveal himself as the father years down the line. Later, Billy questioned
Lily about her past relationship with Cane. Lily filled him in on how she and
Cane had lost a baby, and how Chloe chased after Cane because she wanted to
be a Chancellor. However, Lily added, she really believed that Chloe loved
her baby and wanted the best for the child, and that Cane would make a
great father. Billy agreed. He asked if Lily would ever take Cane back; she
answered that she would because she knows Cane and Chloe are just friends.
Billy pointed out that Cane and Chloe were going to be tied together for at
least 18 years..... Chloe and Cane discussed possible baby names. Among the
choices: Diane and Elizabeth (which Chloe deemed boring). Heh. Remember, her
portrayer is Elizabeth Hendrickson. Chloe was then horrified with the third
name Cane came up with. Esther later arrived and announced that she was
moving in to help her daughter. They turned down the offer, with Cane
explaining that as Chloe's husband, he should be the one to care for her.
Esther insisted on at least making them a healthy dinner ... of tofu.
"There's no stopping her, is there?" Chloe whispered. "I'll get Chinese
after she's gone," Cane promised.
At Crimson Lights, Kevin continued to be upset over Amber's belief that he
killed Katherine. Jana suggested that perhaps he was feeling guilty for
taking Kay's money. Kevin replied that he found the cash and needed it to
fix the plumbing in the coffeehouse.
At the coffeehouse, Phyllis ran into Adam and taunted that he'd probably be
spending the holidays in jail. After, Frank called and demanded that Adam
see him in prison. Adam warned Jack that Frank threatened to blab about
everything concerning the diary, including Jack's involvement. Jack told
Adam to never speak to him in public again, and to ignore Frank. After,
Phyllis teased Jack about having no job and losing Sharon. Later, Adam went
to the prison and found Victor waiting for him instead of Frank. Victor
implored Adam to help him go after Jack.... Phyllis informed Jack that she
saw Nick and Sharon kissing in Paris. Ghost John then appeared and suggested
that Jack tell Sharon the truth about everything.... Victor asked Adam to
corroborate everything that Frank said about the diary being forged. He
promised that if Adam did this, he'd make sure Adam got a light sentence.
Adam blamed Victor for ruining his career and making him the family pariah.
Victor warned that if Adam didn't help him, he'd take down both Adam and
Jana and Kevin stopped by Michael and Lauren's to wish them a happy
anniversary and join in River's celebration. Gloria told Kevin how Jeffrey
threatened to tell the authorities about her tainting the Jabot moisturizer
if she testified for River. After, River raised a toast to Michael and
Gloria for helping him, and to Eden for being his biggest supporter. Michael
and Lauren then publicly declared their love for one another.... Jana feared
for Kevin's soul. She then gave River Kay's money, explaining that he needs
it more than they do.... Gloria told Lauren and Michael about Jeff
threatening her, but they believed that Bardwell was bluffing. As everyone
posed for a family picture, Jeffrey was at the hospital getting his face
treated — which had been burnt after he purposely spread on the face cream.
Billy called Jack and left a message saying that he's decided to keep
Chloe's secret because he didn't think he'd make a good father.
An overjoyed Michael got news that the judge vacated the charges in River's
case. He thanked Gloria for helping River get out of jail and embraced her.
Michael loved that he now had both of his parents and a new sister. "We have
a whole Christmas card!" exclaimed Lauren.... Gloria then got a call from
Jeffrey, who informed her that he's in the hospital. He lied that he was
there because he was allergic to a certain food and had a bad reaction....
Lauren and Michael found a tax bill about the ashram and learned that it's
in Eden's name. Michael called River and offered to take care of it, but
River told him not to worry about it. Michael was concerned that someone was
using Eden's identity, but River shrugged it off. After he hung up, River
looked concerned. Eden then met him in the coffeehouse and was ecstatic to
hear that her dad was a free man. Later, Michael did some research and
learned that a clerical error hadn't been made, and the property was indeed
in Eden's name. Lauren wondered how River had enough money to purchase
it.... River informed Eden that they're moving back to the ashram. Michael
then called Eden and she pretended that she wasn't with her dad. Michael
asked if River had ever discussed money matters with her. River had her hang
up, then wanted to leave town. Eden didn't understand why they had to
disappear so quickly, but River insisted on leaving that night.... Michael
believed that River had set the bank on fire all those years ago, so he
could steal the money. "We've been had," he said sadly.
Adam met up with Heather at the Crimson Lights. He recalled Victor
threatening to take him and Jack down and then asked Heather if they could
get married that day. Heather didn't really like that idea, but Adam kept
pushing the idea of getting married and leaving town. She kept insisting
that she had too much work to travel.
Ashley and Jack dined at the GCAC. Jack wanted to discuss Jabot business,
but Ashley admitted that she isn't sure she can trust him anymore. Jack was
surprised when she called him a liar and questioned him about having
Victor's diary forged.... Victor informed Ashley that he had new information
about Jack and Adam. Ash realized that Paul had spied Adam at the same hotel
where Jack had claimed he'd been meeting escorts. Ashley realized that Jack
and Adam were in cahoots. She was devastated that Jack had lied to her once
At the prison, Victor spoke with Paul about Frank's claims regarding Adam
and Jack and the diary. Paul recalled seeing Adam acting strangely at the
Genoa City Motor Arms Motel and agreed to investigate. Paul then advised
Victor to stop blaming Nikki for everything that's gone wrong in his life.
Victor wanted to concentrate on getting revenge on Jack.... After, Paul
joined Heather at the coffeehouse. Jack arrived and asked Heather how the
case against Victor is going, but she wouldn't tell him anything. Paul then
warned Heather that he suspects Adam was involved in the forgery. Heather
was angry with her father for working against her, but he urged her to take
a good look at Adam. After, Paul told Jack to watch his back.... Ashley
asked Adam point-blank if Jack was involved in the forged diary. Adam
nervously replied that Jack introduced him to the publisher. Ash didn't buy
it and kept pressing him for information. Adam told her to ask Jack....
Heather paid Victor a visit and learned that Vic had hired Paul to
investigate the diary case. Newman showed Heather Frank's confession and
noted that Adam keeps lying to her.... Adam met with a wedding planner at
the coffeehouse. Paul interrupted them and informed Adam that he knows what
Adam is up to. Paul implored him to confess and save Heather's career....
Ashley angrily confronted Jack about being in the same hotel as Adam at the
same time. Jack told her she was out of control and kept insisting that he
was at the hotel with an escort and not working with Adam on the diary.
"Just stop!" she begged, unable to believe that he'd throw Adam under a bus.
"You are so disgusting." She then banned him from Jabot.
Gloria arrived at the hospital, just as the doctor was examining Jeff. The
doctor noted that the burns were topical and not caused by a food allergy.
Jeff replied that he probably got the burns from using Gloria's moisturizer.
Glo was horrified. Jeff then gave the doc the vial of tainted cream that
he'd brought with him. When the doctor left the room, Gloria begged Jeff not
to turn her in. "Turn you in for what?" he asked. He went into a flirtatious
mode and asked her to confess the things she's done as a "bad girl." "I
never wanted anyone to get hurt by that face cream," she whispered. "That
cream was never supposed to be distributed." "But that's not what happened,"
Jeff pressed on, "because you were a baaaad girl." "You know, Jeffrey,
sometimes I just can't myself," she said. He seemed to be getting turned on.
"How bad was it?" he panted. Glo leaned in and asked if he was taping her
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